There Is a Carrot in My Ear and Other Noodle Tales
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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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Retold by Alvin Schwartz
Ideal for readers just taking off on their own is this collection of noodle tales which comes complete with a foreword: 'A noodle is a silly person./This book is about/a family of noodles/and the silly things/they say and do.' The six tales are extended jokes of the kind that children love to tell. In each case the reader knows, either through the illustrations or from his or her own knowledge, just how silly the characters are, and herein lies the enormous appeal. A real laugh and groan out loud book: don't miss it!
