BOOK TWENTY-FOUR
Published 1988
BP Team: Another great team - Mark Curry and Caron Keating are joined by Yvette Fielding (and there's a small photo of her from CBBC comedy drama classic Seaview! If you've got any tapes of that series - let me know.), who had in fact come onboard the Blue Peter just before last year's book could be published
Cover: The team go behind the Iron Curtain for a historic expedition to Russia (as covered by the now deleted video 'Blue Peter's Summer Snaps')

Features: The endpapers include a look at the competition entries trying to design a cover for a 30th Anniversary Radio Times cover... There are six pages of retrospective to celebrate... Mark meets up with T'Pau, performing 'Valentine' on Top of the Pops... Some scary body painting in the studio... Caron abseils down a crag to fix a bird-watching camera... The excavated Chinese stone warriors visit the studio... There is a tribute to Percy Thrower. Mark visits Percy in hospital to show him a video of BP highlights and to present him with the gold Blue Peter badge - Percy dies just seven days later (anyone who saw this will surely recall it being a real choker)... A toy car collector brings his collection to the studio... Mark and Yvette dress up as Ted Bovis and Peggy from Hi-de-Hi when they visit the BBC costume store... Yvette trains Bonnie... A collection of illustrated letters and envelopes from years of correspondence between a distinguished officer and his grandchildren... Two pages of photos of Caron in her very 80s fashions... Caron visits Battersea power station - can it find a new use for the 90s?... Yvette goes canoeing - and of course she's useless at it, but that's kind of the point...

Makes: Paper flowers. Is this 1958 or 1988???
SBP Personal organisers for yuppie schoolchildren - yup, it's definitely 1988!

Historical Figure's Life Story in Pictures: Heroine of the sea, Grace Darling - again this is told using archive stills and paintings rather than the traditional ilustrations. Female aviators of the 30s are covered in similar style.
Also, how the panda came to Europe, in yer actual drawings.
Stories: C'mon, it's nearly the 90s. No.

Notes: This year the book is published by 'Ringpress Books in association with BBC tv'. It seems not five years since the last anniversary, but again it's an Anniversary publication (this time 30 Years of BP). The paper is thankfully far better than last year, but again the print run is low, this is very rare and it will cost you as much as £3. Some genius has published this with a removable price sticker on the back cover - so no more snipped off corners!