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Cover Story
The cover of this issue is a design incorporating illustrations from four books illustrated by the subject of our Authorgraph, Ian Beck. The top left illustration is from Five Little Ducks (Orchard), the top right from Poppy and Pip's Picnic (to be published Autumn '97 by HarperCollins), the bottom left from The Owl and the Pussy-cat (Transworld) and the bottom right from Home Before Dark (to be published September '97 by Scholastic). Ian Beck's Picture Book (Hippo) is reviewed in this issue.
Beck talks to BfK's interviewer, Julia Eccleshare, also in this issue. His distinctive decorative style with its sensitive pen line and cross hatching has a nostalgic but sometimes also a surreal quality - he describes it as 'a look that is floating, strong and wistful all at the same time'.
Thanks to Orchard, HarperCollins, Transworld and Scholastic for their help in producing this composite cover.
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Chanting Rhymes
Compiled by John Foster
Action Rhymes
Compiled by John Foster
Finger Rhymes
Compiled by John Foster
Counting Rhymes
Compiled by John Foster
This is a useful collection of themed picture book anthologies aimed at pre-schoolers and Reception classes. Foster seems to have specialised recently in these snippet anthologies that work especially well with Infant children, being short, varied in pace and making a spectrum of poetry styles accessible to those who blanch visibly at heavy tomes! Each of the books found its admirers which augurs well for anyone buying them individually as presents and any, or preferably all, would grace classroom collections. Carol Thompson's easily recognisable style of illustration attracted the children and the pace and clever balance of styles and theme did the rest - we were all hooked!
