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Row Your Boat

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BfK No. 107 - November 1997

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from Mick Inkpen’s new picture book, Bear. Mick Inkpen is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. Thanks to Hodder Children’s Books for their help in producing this November cover.

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Row Your Boat

Pippa Goodhart
Illustrated by Stephen Lambert
(Mammoth)
32pp, 978-0434979646, RRP £9.99, Hardcover
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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Row, row, row your boat, gently down the steam Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. Goodhart has expanded the well known rhyme to take two young voyagers across the sea to an exotic island in this picture book. A frisson of shock is felt as a lion emerges from the jungle undergrowth, but all is well as the sea changes back to a stream and the island to a pastoral landscape. Goodhart and Lambert's gentle words and lambent double page spreads offer to very young onlookers adventure and freedom encapsulated within a dream.

Reviewer: 
Valerie Coghlan
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