Harvey Goes to School
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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.
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Illustrated by Susan Hellard
In this fourth story about Harvey, the highly intelligent St Bernard, he has to help overcome the problem of vandalism at Harry and Sally Smith's primary school, in order to ensure that Pets' Day is not cancelled. By tracking down the vandal, Harvey uncovers a colourful secret about the unpopular deputy head, Mr Green (appointed ahead of the children's favourite, Miss Fielding), and saves Pets' Day into the bargain. The bubbly pace, style and stock characters make this canine caper eminently suitable for lower junior children to read. The lively text, accompanied at regular intervals by appropriate line drawings, will successfully maintain a child's interest and is just the right length to be read straight through in one sitting.
