A Worm's Eye View
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Cover Story
This issue's cover is a photograph of Anne Frank whose diary is discussed by Michael Rosen fifty years after its first publication. Following the arrest of the Frank family and their companions, the secret annex in Amsterdam where they had been in hiding was locked up and everybody forbidden to enter it, since Jewish possessions became Nazi property and were carted away. Before this happened, the young woman, Miep Gies, who had provided those in hiding with food and who had a second key to the annex, risked herself once more by entering it. Miep retrieved Anne's diary from the devastation together with the Frank family photograph album.
Thanks to Penguin Children's Books for help in reproducing this cover.
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A Worm's Eye View
Illustrated by Bethan Matthews
This is such a very modest looking little book with its black and white line drawings and small format. However, it is without doubt the best book sent to me for review this month. Alice and Tom and their parents have an allotment. They also have a ghastly toddler cousin, David, who is a classic 'terrible two'. One Sunday morning is a disaster when David buries Dad's keys. It is Alice's empathy with a worm's - or toddler's - eye view that finds them. Mark's ability to write about real children is splendid - she also combines thoughtful and tender writing with entertaining, humorous but real life, situations. This is a little gem of a story to read aloud or for young juniors to enjoy for themselves.
