The Man
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This issue’s cover is from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Monkey Puzzle. Written in rhyme, this agreeable story has butterfly helping little monkey to find his mum. Scheffler’s distinctive, entertaining and strongly characterised illustrations make good use of the page as little monkey meets lots of jungle inhabitants before being reunited with his mum. Thanks to Macmillan Children’s Books for their help in producing this July cover.
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The Man
Read by Michael Palin and William Puttock
Initial scepticism about this version of Raymond Briggs's unlikely picture book is quickly dispelled as this adaptation for tape into a two voice dialogue, done by Briggs himself, works better than the book. Michael Palin's reading of the part of the Man is brilliant, introducing him as a hectoring, small-time bully full of sharp prejudices - against cheap marmalade and skimmed milk, for example - and then, gradually revealing a gentler and more speculative tone as the friendship develops between the Man and the boy.
