Kitty's Fishy Dinner
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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.
Thanks to Penguin Children's Books for help in reproducing this cover.
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Kitty's Fishy Dinner
Illustrated by Tanya Linch
Kitty's attempts to get to a plate of fish out of her reach on top of the kitchen dresser are told with bright collage illustrations and a text with a large typeface. The story has a high smile factor and the little mouse, who is not mentioned in the text, is an amusing extra as it tries to help and hang on while Kitty struggles up onto the shelf. Disappointingly, she never does get the fish and has to be rescued rather ignominiously but children enjoyed sharing her adventure.
