Lassie, Come-Home
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BfK No. 109 - March 1998
Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from David McKee’s new picture book, Elmer Plays Hide-and-Seek. David McKee is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare. Thanks to Andersen Press and Random Century for help in producing this March cover.
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Lassie, Come-Home
Retold by Rosemary Wells
(Puffin Books)
48pp, 978-0140557466, RRP £6.99, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
The story, which in other hands could be overly sentimental, is given a hard edge through the use of the Victorian setting and some powerful descriptive writing by Wells. Jeffers too conveys something of the harshness of the times in her sparse interiors and dark and dramatic landscape as well as her skill as an animal painter.
