Please Mrs Butler
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Through star filled skies on Christmas Eve Kay Harker, in a sleigh pulled by eight unicorns and driven by Herne the Hunter, returns in triumph to Tatchester. The illustration on the cover of this issue of BfK is by Faith Jaques and is taken from The Box of Delights, a newly illustrated edition of John Masefield's classic children's book, abridged by Patricia Crampton and published by Heinemann, 0 434 95052 1, £7.95. A paperback edition (without colour plates) is available from Fontana Lion (0 00 572415 9, £1.50). We are grateful to Heinemann and Fontana for help in using this illustration.
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Please Mrs Butler
Illustrated by Fritz Wegner
How fascinatingly familiar it all is. Teachers and children can share the hilarity and wit of Please Mrs Butler and possibly think of some more verses themselves. It is all there: the bullies, the nit nurse, the inevitable projects and those letters from mums which you are one day going to write a book about. A book of verses, hardly serious or deep, which tells of schoolroom and schoolyard events with an eerie precision. There is a great deal to laugh about, lots to discuss, a book for every Primary schoolteacher's desk. Read a verse aloud everyday. The children will soon be choosing and reading them to you.
