My Granny's Great Escape
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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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My Granny's Great Escape
Illustrated by Nick Sharratt
The theme of this story is frustrated love and its eventual victory in the face of adversity. The lovers are Nicholas's 62-year-old granny and Lancelot, the Hell's Angel father of prim and proper Mr Tugg next door. Lancelot at 65 not only rides a motorbike, he also has a pony tail and keeps pigeons. This makes him a highly unsuitable suitor in the eyes of Nicholas's father, and he and Mr Tugg are united in their efforts to thwart old love. After an escape via knotted sheets lowered from granny's bedroom window, a burglary that was not, a mad dash in Lancelot's motorbike plus sidecar and a ride in a hot-air balloon all is well, and the star-crossed lovers are wed in a castle, albeit one of the bouncing sort. Sharratt's illustrations nicely complement this modern romantic tale.
