A Child's Book of Manners
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BfK No. 21 - July 1983
Cover Story
The photograph on our cover is of Robin Hill absorbed in Moving House, one of Methuen's Chatterbooks by Camilla Jessel’ and was taken by Richard Mewton.
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Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
(Puffin Books)
978-0140503746, RRP £3.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
Not even Helen Oxenbury's superbly humorous illustrations can redeem Fay Maschler's 'cautionary tales' which are really doggerel verse at its worst and most painful ---- even difficult --- to read aloud.
