Charlie, Emma & Alberic
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Cover Story
On our cover this month we feature an illustration from The Swineherd, a picture book version of the Andersen fairy tale by artist Lisbeth Zwerger. (Neugebauer Press, 0 907234 127, £3.95 from A. and C. Black). We are grateful to A. and C. Black for help in using this illustration. The roundel used on the Hans Andersen pages is from the wood engraving by Gwen Raverat for Four Tales, translated by R. P. Keigwin, C.U.P. (1935). It and the Punch cartoon on page 16 appear in Brian Alderson's pamphlet Hans Christian Andersen and his Eventyr in England.
Charlie, Emma & Alberic
When Charlie and Emma find a 'tiny lizard' climbing out of a hole in the road, little do they know that they are about to make a dragon their pet, with whom they will have all kinds of adventures. The episodic nature of this book for newly independent readers offers them suitable stopping points as well as an amusing but undemanding tale.

