Daisy and Jack in the Garden; Daisy and Jack and the Surprise Pie
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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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Daisy and Jack in the Garden
Daisy and Jack and the Surprise Pie
These small square picture books were shared with a toddler living next door and had to be wrested from her sleeping hands a month later for the reviews to be written! They did not get as far as the Nursery class in my school but I have no doubt they would have met with the same reception! Daisy and Jack, two teddies with very individual personalities, enjoy a surprise pie together and approach gardening in their different ways. My young neighbour knows both stories, which are full of gentle humour, off by heart and she sits by herself and chunners her way through them again and again. Two appealing books for the very young from an author/illustrator who clearly knows her children.
