Three Little Pigs ¦ Three Bears ¦ Red Riding Hood ¦ Billy Goats Gruff

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BfK No. 22 - September 1983

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is from the new paperback edition of S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders (Fontana Lions 0 00 671427 7, £1.00). We are grateful to Fontana Lions for making it possible to use it.

Three Little Pigs

Illustrated by Carolyn Bull
Retold by Wendy Boase

(Walker Books Ltd)

978-0744500165, RRP £0.75, Paperback

Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant

First Fairytales

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Three Bears

Illustrated by Gillian Chapman
Retold by Wendy Boase

(Walker Books Ltd)

978-0744500141, RRP £0.75, Paperback

Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant

First Fairytales

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Red Riding Hood

Illustrated by Heather Philpott
Retold by Wendy Boase

(Walker Books Ltd)

978-0744500158, RRP £0.75, Paperback

Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant

First Fairytales

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Billy Goats Gruff

Illustrated by Carolyn Bull
Retold by Wendy Boase

(Walker Books Ltd)

978-0744500172, RRP £0.75, Hardcover

Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant

First Fairytales

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Cheap and cheerful, and more attractively presented than the Ladybird versions, best sums up these four 'First Fairytales', hardbacks aimed mainly at parents with preschoolers. My advice as always with traditional tales is, if you don't like the choice of words in the text, substitute your own; and though the pictures are not to my taste - Paul Galdone's illustrations for these stories have yet to be bettered for the very young in my view - the rather chocolate-box style adopted here may appeal to some youngsters.

Reviewer:

Jill Bennett