Return of the Killer Coat

Andrew tries to convince classmate Alice that her secondhand coat, previously his, is a dangerous killer, eating anything it can lay claim to. Eventually Alice, who does not really regard the coat as more than an inconvenience, agrees that it must be destroyed.

As in many ‘easy readers’ (this one is published as a ‘Sprinter’), the author’s explanation of events is so curtailed by the need to be succinct that the story is rendered ever more nonsensical and unconvincing.

The difficulty of depicting a coat as an animate object in the many black and white illustrations is not quite overcome by Lizatovic and I found some of them incomprehensible as well as unattractive.