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The Witch's Children

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BfK No. 137 - November 2002

Cover Story
This issue's cover illustration is from Lian Hearn's Across the Nightingale Floor which is discussed by Clive Barnes. Thanks to Pan Macmillan for their help with this November cover.

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The Witch's Children

Ursula Jones
Illustrated by Russell Ayto
(Orchard Books)
32pp, 978-1841215518, RRP £10.99, Hardcover
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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When the witch's troublesome children arrive at the park, all the animals run for cover, but a child playing by the lakeside is not so prescient and is changed into a frog. In an attempt to undo the damage, the children work their half-learned magic and soon every inhabitant of the park is caught up in a shape-shifting muddle. This is a short, schematic story in which the bright, anarchic, page-filling, cartoon-like pictures do as much work as the bold and simple text set into them. A very pleasing variant on the themes of mischief and magic.

Reviewer: 
George Hunt
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