The Pigman's Legacy
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Our cover this issue features Tucker and Co., Phil Redmond, Fontana Lions, 0 00 6701 27 X, 85p.
It is also available in hardback from BBC Publications, 0 563 20053 7, £4.50 in March. We are grateful for help from Fontana in putting the book on our cover in full colour. Cover photos, by Douglas Playle, show Todd Carty, Erkan Mustafa, Nadia Chambers, Lee MacDonald, Lee Sparke, Paula Taras and Alison Vettles.
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With six Zindel novels in Lions, you must know the likely demand for Legacy in your school. Like many other readers, I found it disappointing - not because it's badly done'; it's just no advance, we've heard it all before. To cash in one his earlier success, Zindel sends John and Lorraine back to Mr Pignati's house to find another old man. Sailing close to the wind, the kids brighten his last days, helped by Dolly, a bouncy cleaner from school. Fast-flow prose, more didactic (you might say 'positive') than The Pigman, a professional job. Regrettably, we don't have enough teenage paperbacks in print to be able to pick and choose.
