Lady Lollipop
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This issue’s cover is from Lauren Child’s I Am NOT Sleepy and I WILL NOT Go to Bed. Lauren Child is interviewed by Joanna Carey. Thanks to Orchard Books for their help with this May cover.
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Lady Lollipop
Illustrated by Jill Barton
This is a terrific book with five marvellous characters. Princess Penelope is the spoilt child of the fearsome Queen Ethelwynne and her hen-pecked husband, King Theophilus. When Penelope demands a pig as a birthday present she gets one - an intelligent sow called Lollipop. However, the princess needs the help of poor Johnny Skinner to train it so that it will be able to live in the palace. The arrival of Johnny and Lollipop has a dramatic and positive effect on all the palace inhabitants. By the end of the story the reader will like each and every one of them. King-Smith's masterful storytelling is matched by Barton's superb ink wash illustrations. The facial expressions of all the characters, but especially those of Lollipop, are just perfect.
