A Nice Day Out
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The first issue of Books for Keeps ever published! But we couldn't afford full-colour! Illustration from The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl, picture by Quentin Blake. Published by Joanathon Cape and Puffin Books.
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Send to friendYou could call this a sort of English Ramona - only the viewpoint here is Billy's. With his mam, dad, sister Sandra, brother-in-law Steve, new niece Alice Margaret Julie - and Grandma, he's on a day trip to the seaside. Things don't go exactly smoothly but it gives Billy something to think about. The family is real enough (not a working-class stereotype in sight) and there's enough in 88 pages to give a stamina building reader a good run. (A Funny Sort of Christmas About the same family - Gran ill, Alice Margaret Julie on the way - is now in Young Puffin, 65p)
