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BfK No. 102 - January 1997

Cover Story
This issue's cover artwork for Philip Pullman's Northern Lights is by Stuart Williams. Pullman talks to BfK's interviewer Geoff Fox. Thanks to Scholastic Childen's Books for their help in producing this January cover.

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My Busy Day

Philippe Dupasquier
(Andersen Press)
10pp, 978-0862646974, RRP £8.99, Pop-Up
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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This novelty picture book with pages that pull out and characters that move will delight babies and toddlers as it depicts typical events (having breakfast, going to the park, doing the shopping etc.) in the life of very young children. Dupasquier's minimal text and friendly illustrations are cleverly pitched for his audience with just the right amount of detail to keep the child engaged and talking about the things in the pictures. One of the toddlers who shared this book with me firmly believed that she was the child in the story - it troubled her not at all that the child in the story has different coloured hair and that the parents depicted are nothing like her parents! The only disadvantage to the book, but a major one nevertheless, is its fragility. The intended audience loved it, but loved it to bits; literally and far too quickly.

Reviewer: 
Judith Sharman
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