Three-Star Billy
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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.
Three-Star Billy
Billy, one of Pat Hutchins' lively monster family (previous titles include Silly Billy and The Very Worst Monster), is apparently absolutely dreadful at everything when he goes to nursery school for the first time. The joke, of course, is that in Monster Nursery dreadful behaviour is good behaviour and the more monstrously Billy behaves the more he is rewarded by his teacher - eventually going home with gold stars for his monstrousness in painting, singing, dancing and screaming. A book that nursery children will thoroughly enjoy - take care, though. Your children may follow suit!


