When Martha's Away
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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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When Martha's Away
A very striking large format picture book (winner of the 1996 Mother Goose Award) dashingly illustrated in rather Surrealist manner with huge bold strokes, confident line and flat, clear colour, this is the story of what a cat does while the family is away. Maratha assumes that Lionel sleeps all day while she is at school but Lionel is a sociable, artistic, rather flirty bon viveur who also works out so the dog next door does not stand a chance - not a moment of his day goes to waste. Great fun.
