Dealing with Eating Disorders; Sex; Periods
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This issue’s cover is from The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Poetry (cover illustration by Peter Weevers). Edited by Alison Sage (who also edited The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Literature), this sumptuous anthology is loosely divided into four sections corresponding to age starting with nursery rhymes and first poems through to poems for older children and classic poetry. Poems from such modern poets as Roger McGough, Ted Hughes, Wendy Cope and Maya Angelou sit alongside poems by Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shelley and Shakespeare. The anthology is illustrated in full colour and black and white. Newly commissioned illustrations from, for example, Quentin Blake, Shirley Hughes and Nicola Bayley are included alongside illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, Jessie Willcox Smith and Kate Greenaway. With such a comprehensive range of poems for 2-11 year olds and upwards, this is a wonderful family book.
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Dealing with Eating Disorders
Sex
Illustrated by Corinne Pearlman
Periods
Illustrated by James Tyrrell
The Wayland guide to eating disorders is picture book format, with a large, clear typeface and colour photographs. Like the B format 'Wise Guides', it follows the traditional formula of explanation and clarification, case histories, advice, glossary and reading lists. It features celebrities and refers to both sexes and a variety of ethnic groups. The text is well organised and reassuringly matter of fact: a tone adopted by all three guides which gives them the appeal of an experienced adult or trusted friend.
The 'Wise Guides' rely on cartoon illustrations which are abundant, unflinching and reassuring. Their glossaries necessitate much turning of pages back and forth and would have been better incorporated into the text. Their covers are bright, modern and appealing, giving them less of the library reference feel from which the Wayland guide suffers. This may result in them being bought and used more often.
Their reasonable prices and important subject matter make these guides most welcome on teenage bookshelves.
