Our Teacher's Gone Bananas
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BfK No. 149 - November 2004
Cover Story
This issue's cover illustration is from Julia Donaldson's The Gruffalo's Child, illustrated by Axel Sheffler. Axel Scheffler is interviewed by Martin Salisbury. Thanks to Macmillan Children's Books for their help with this November cover.
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Our Teacher's Gone Bananas
Illustrated by Lizzie Finlay
(OUP Oxford)
96pp, POETRY, 978-0192763174, RRP £4.99, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
I can't help but think this should have been better edited. At 96 pages it's a long collection full of too many clumsy, clichŽd rhymes and cringy puns. It's easy to give up on this collection and miss the poems worth sharing, like the series of poems on grammar or some of the nonsense rhymes. Nothing really remained with me after reading this, except the clichŽ 'quality not quantity'.
