"Og Fo" says the Space Bug; Pets Just Want to Have Fun!; "I don't Like Space Glop"; "Do I Look Funny to You?"
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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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"Og Fo" says the Space Bug
Illustrated by Eleanor Taylor
Pets Just Want to Have Fun!
Illustrated by Eleanor Taylor
"I don't Like Space Glop"
Illustrated by Eleanor Taylor
"Do I Look Funny to You?"
Illustrated by Eleanor Taylor
Unashamedly cashing in on the Literacy initiative, Bloomsbury is serving some new mini series. 'Crazy Gang' is a four book phonic fiction collection aimed at 5-7 year-olds. By deliberately using a phonetically controlled vocabulary and writing in the present tense these stories are rather fettered by their own educational ties and only slightly enhanced by the quite appealing hatched illustrations.
In "Og Fo" Max's search for his missing pet dog, Pat, takes a comic turn when a mischievous space bug named Zug Zug escapes from his owner's back and causes havoc in a supermarket and local park.
Pets Just Want to Have Fun sees the same characters causing trouble again. While Max and Jazz go shopping, their respective pets, Pat and Zug Zug, cause endless problems after they run off with items from a toy shop.
"I Don't Like Space Glop" has Jazz facing a dilemma. Zug Zug, having dropped stickly jam called 'glop' all over the spaceship, has to travel to the Planet Igg, in the reserve craft (the Blast Box) to obtain some Space Vim. This is the only substance powerful enough to enable the mess to be cleaned up.
"Do I Look Funny to You?" is about a normal space girl who wants to join in lessons on earth. But why does everyone laugh at her?
Less dull than 'Janet & John' and with slightly more plot.
