My Little Supermarket
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This issue’s cover is from the gift edition of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory illustrated by Quentin Blake and with design and typography by Peter Campbell. The successful collaboration between Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake has played an important part in the popularity of Dahl’s work over the last fifteen years. Blake’s unmistakable artwork truly complements Dahl’s writing. His economical, amiable, illustrative style balances out Dahl’s often expansive language. And the liveliness, humour and pathos of the drawings offer a softer side to Dahl’s sometimes gloriously grotesque, sometimes cruel descriptions of his characters.
Thanks to Penguin Children’s Books for their help in producing this July cover which commemorates the thirty years anniversary of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s first UK publication.
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Illustrated by Claire Henley
This is less of a book than a binder of very jolly infant maths workcards. The idea is interactive to the point of exhaustion as Teddy goes shopping with push-out card coins and groceries. The book is ingenious, with a folded paper purse, till and trolley, slits to put the cut-out food in so that teddy can buy it and put it in the trolley and instructions in rhyming couplets for the child and adult to follow as they help with the shopping and count out the coins. This would be fun for a child working one to one with an adult - perhaps from about four to six years old. Younger than that and the structure and sums are just too much; older and teddy is just too babyish. No doubt the many little pieces will get lost, adults will try to keep their child at the task far too long and the folded card will get torn but for a week or two of mildly educational fun this book is fine. Pity the coins are only tokens marked with a '1' and not representations of real pennies - but then I suppose the book could not be sold throughout the world so cheaply.
