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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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Grandmother and I
Illustrated by Jan Ormerod
Grandfather and I
Illustrated by Jan Ormerod
Two blissful books in which we come to know, through the voices of the child narrators, about the very special relationship that exists between these children and their grandparents. Grandmother's lap is the special place where this little black girl finds comfort in times of stress: when she is feeling poorly, when a storm rages outside, or when the cat is missing.
In Grandfather and I, a little black boy tells us about a walk through the woods with Grandfather. The first person narrative is skilfully paced -the leisurely woodland spreads with their repeated sentences are cleverly contrasted with the more hurried descriptions on alternate spreads.
Caring and sharing, tenderness and love shine through from both words and pictures and Ormerod's watercolours capture the emotions perfectly.
