From Snowflakes to Sandcastles
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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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This calendar book give a double page spread to each month. On the left-hand page there is, printed on an appropriately tinted, marble washed background, a wavy list of thirteen objects, animal, vegetable and mineral, which might be seen at that time of year. Below is a series of questions which require close inspection of eighty or so small pictures of the listed objects arranged in lines across the opposite page. The stamp-sized pictures of rainbows, mittens, pancakes, frogs, windmills and the like, are designed to appeal to early years children who would not be able to read the questions for themselves. This book will therefore have to be shared with an adult or older child with the patience and commitment to pose the questions and coax responses. I found it too static to inspire me to do so. Not so much a picture book as a book of pictures.
