Jonny Briggs and the Jubilee Concert
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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.
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Illustrated by William Marshall
Favourite 'Jackanory' character returns, this time school being the setting of a tale involving a concert. The tensions, excitement and the sense of 'anything could happen' that surrounds such events will be familiar. There's a hint of the 'formula' in the put-upon teachers --- but the predictability does help reluctant eight to elevens in and along in my experience. I lead them on later to Gene Kemp, for Ms Eadington, at her best, has the same ear for dialogue and, when the action slows down, she can catch the tunes of junior school life.
