Warton and the Castaways
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On our cover this issue we feature an illustration by Charles Keeping from Beowulf (OUP, 0 19 279770 0, £4.50), a new picture book version for 9-13s of the Anglo-Saxon hero tale. The story is retold by Kevin Crossley-Holland. We are most grateful to Oxford University Press for their help in using this illustration.
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Illustrated by Lawrence Di Fiori
Fans of the five previous books about Warton and Morton Toad will need no persuading to this one. It is well up to standard. In search of honey for Morton's favourit]e (or in this case favorite --- you have to excuse the American English) honey bread the two brothers get caught in a flood, narrowly avoid becoming lunch for a reccoon, take refuge with Cora and Hester, two elderly tree toads with a highly distinctive life style, and end up in a colony of herons (and you know what they like to eat for breakfast!). Amusing, exciting and highly diverting. Six sections. largish print, 112 pages.
