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Oi, Caveboy!

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BfK No. 183 - July 2010
BfK 183 July 2010

Cover Story
This issue’s cover illustration by Richard Jones is from Rick Riordan’s The Red Pyramid, the first in ‘The Kane Chronicles’ series. Rick Riordan is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare (see Authorgraph). Thanks to Puffin Books for their help with this July cover.

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Oi, Caveboy!

Alan MacDonald
Illustrated by Mark Beech
(Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)
192pp, 978-1408803349, RRP £4.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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Iggy is soon to become a warrior in the Urk tribe, but to accomplish this he must first pass the testing. The testing involves killing a snake, but this is where things go wrong - ever so slightly. For Iggy’s snake is large, dangerous and not about to take death lying down... In fact the snake’s behaviour is not the only trouble that occurs, as a takeover bid in the tribe is also underfoot. Macdonald’s eye for dialogue and relationships is well honed to the humour of Key Stage Two readers, who will find this book easy to pick up and fun to read. The promise of another title in the series means that readers will have something more to look forward to. Well worth getting for children who enjoy a laugh as they read.

Reviewer: 
Rudolf Loewenstein
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