Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009

Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Children's Books
Release details
Release date:	7 August 2008
Format:	Hardback, 94 pages
ISBN:	ISBN-10 1-40590-427-5 ISBN-13 978-1-4059-0427-8
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Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009 was published in 2008.

Overview

Release Number 3

Publisher BBC Children's Books,UK

Released 7 August 2008

ISBN: 978-1-40590-427-8

Priced £6.99 (UK)

Format Hardback 94 pages

Featured Doctor: The Tenth Doctor

Featured Companions: Donna Noble

Featured Enemies: Various

Contents

Comic strip story

• The Greatest Mall in the Universe by Colin Brake

Illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi

• The Time Sickness by Trevor Baxendale

Illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi

• Death Disco by Alan Barnes

Illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi

Text stories

• Once Upon a Time by Justin Richards

Illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi

• Most Beautiful Music by Justin Richards

Illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi

Features

• The Adventure Continues Written by Justin Richards
• Know Your Companions (Donna, Martha, Rose, Captain Jack Harkness, Mickey Smith and Sarah Jane Smith)
• To the Doctor - a Daughter by Justin Richards
• The Sarah Jane Adventures (feature) Written by Rupert Laight
• Alien A-Z Written by Annabel Gibson
• Battle for Survival written by Justin Richards
• Have We Met?
• Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?
• What If? Written by Justin Richards
• Posters (full page)
  • Partners in Crime
  • The Sarah Jane Adventures
  • Sontaran "Sontar-ha!"
  • The Library
  • Ood "The Circle must be broken"
• Intergalactic Guide to Planets and Places:
  • Malcassairo
  • The Ood-Sphere
  • Pompeii
  • Messaline
  • Midnight
• Know Your Enemy (full page feature):
  • Max Capricorn
  • Sontarans
  • The Hath
  • Adipose
  • Pyrovile
  • Vespiform
  • Davros

Additional features

• Puzzle: Wordplay: Super Sonic
• Puzzle: Monster Mash
• Puzzle: Maze Trapped
• Quiz: Time Lord True or False
• Puzzle: Cosmic Crossword
• Puzzle: Maze: Destination: Earth
• Quiz: Where in the Universe are we?
• Make: Ood T-shirt
• Counter and Dice Game: Time Trap
• Sonic Drawing Page

Credits

• Editor: to be added
• Designer: to be added
• Frontispiece uses graphics by (not stated)

Additional notes

Preliminary mock-up cover.

• This year's release followed the format (and success), of recent years, with two releases: the Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009 (published by BBC Children's Books) and the Doctor Who Storybook 2009 (published by Panini Comics). While the latter presented a series of short illustrated fiction stories, the former concentrated on the lighter side of activities, games, puzzles and, once again, all new, comic strip stories.
• Released in the UK following the fourth television series (with the Tenth Doctor) the cover featured a large shiny foil cover with the Tenth Doctor and the Supreme Dalek on the front and Davros on the back cover.
• Of particular note is the increased page count, the addition of a third comic strip story, a second prose story, posters with an unobtrusive "cut" line near the spine, pitched at a slightly older audience, more features than before including The Sarah Jane Adventures and, best of all, all for the same price as last year! This is destined to be a bigger seller than even last years!
• Individual page credits are given on the title page but are not complete.
• Early prototype cover shows the Tenth Doctor and three of the same Sontaran (General Staal) on the cover.

External links

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