Bear's Bad Mood
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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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Bear's Bad Mood
Bear gets out of bed on the wrong side and he certainly does not want to play with his friends, Dog, Fox and Mole. But, no matter where he goes, his hiding place is discovered. Fortunately his friends are on hand when he needs them and his bad mood finally disappears. With appealing watercolour illustrations on every page, this book could prove tempting to those wanting a slightly longer read than that offered by picture books. But it is these illustrations rather than the somewhat ponderous text which provide the greater incentive to turn the pages.
