Daisy May
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This issue's cover illustration is from Alan Gibbons's Caught in the Crossfire. Alan Gibbons is interviewed by George Hunt. Thanks to Orion Children's Books for their help with this January cover.
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Daisy May
Illustrated by Karen Donnelly
Daisy May is a foundling who grows up in a foundling hospital; at the age of ten she goes into service. And although her story is very much fiction, it is told in such a way that the reader will readily identify and empathise with Daisy and her life in late Victorian England. Daisy never gives up hope that some day things will improve for her, and by weaving elements of a ghost story into this tale, a happy ending is hinted at. Skilfully told, with Donnelly's illustrations making the characters seem more real, I found the book difficult to put down.
