Goodnight, Monster
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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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Goodnight, Monster
Dan is convinced there is a monster under his bed in this short novel, but, of course, when mum comes in it always turns out to be something harmless instead. Except that, eventually, Dan realises that there is a real monster - who is just as frightened of him and his mum as Dan was of the monster. This is not an original idea but it is well written and nicely produced with full colour illustrations. It will be popular with seven- to nine-year-olds beginning to read fluently.
