George Shrinks
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This issue's cover is from Celia Ree's Sorceress. Celia Rees is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. Thanks to Bloomsbury Children's Books for their help with this March cover.
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As the first page of this large picture books relates in a shrinking script, young George dreams of being small and wakes up to find that it is true. In the rest of the book, enormous double page pictures of great detail and vividness depict the Lilliputian child's adventures as he strives to follow the instructions in the note left by his parents, which forms a bold and minimal set of captions. There is so much going on here that children and their fellow readers will be able to generate endless stories from the 20 odd memorable pages and 100 or so words of which the book consists. Highly recommended as a thought and talk provoking diminutive saga.
