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The Crazy Shoe Shuffle

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BfK No. 101 - November 1996

Cover Story
The cover illustration for this issue is by Tony Ross for Allan Ahlberg’s latest addition to the ‘Happy Family’ series, Miss Dirt the Dustman’s Daughter. We are grateful to Puffin Books for their help in producing the cover of this November issue.

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The Crazy Shoe Shuffle

Gillian Cross
Illustrated by Nick Sharratt
(Mammoth)
978-0749722005, RRP £4.50, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if sarcastic, bullying and manipulative teachers had to spend a couple of days in the shoes of the children who have to put up with them? Maybe not. When Lee, a hard done by child at a very realistically depicted primary school, tries to sort out a stack of sabotaged shoe bags, that is exactly what happens. The transformation of three teachers into eleven-year-olds, highly vulnerable to the savagery of their peers, is described in cruel and humorous detail, but with a wonderfully humane eye for the saving graces that dwell deep beneath case hardened adult exteriors.

Reviewer: 
George Hunt
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