Cirque du Freak
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This issue’s cover shows Jane Simmons’ popular character, Daisy, and her baby brother Pip. Two Daisy books with their ‘dynamic yet affectionate pictures’ full of painterly exuberance are reviewed in this issue. Thanks to Orchard Books for their help in producing this May cover.
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Cirque du Freak
The first title of 'The Saga of Darren Shan' (author and the 'ordinary schoolboy' main character), this novel has some grand horrors, most spectacularly in the Circus itself, and it includes vampires and a deadly and huge spider crawling over people - sometimes with fatal results. The book is dressed to thrill and the simple rate of horrifying scenes will fascinate and terrify many readers. This is a comic book stuff, strong on horrors and appearance, but the writing is shallow and thin.
