Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009

Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009 was published in 2008.

Overview

 * Release Number 3
 * Publisher BBC Children's Books,UK
 * Released in 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

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

 * 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.