There's No Such Thing as a Dragon
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Cover Story
On the cover of this issue we feature a selection of illustrations from the Walker Books List. Can you identify the artists? (Answers below). We are grateful for the help from Walker Books in using this material.
1. Helen Oxenbury (First Picture Books).
2. Shirley Hughes (Nursery Collection).
3. John Burningham (First Words).
4. Patrick Benson (William Mayne's Hob Stories).
5. Kenneth Lilly (Large as Life).
6. Nicola Bayley (Copycats).
7. Philippe Dupasquier (Little Robert).
8. E. J. Taylor (Biscuits, Buttons and Pickles).
9. Jan Ormerod (Baby Books).
10. Colin McNaughton (Allan Ahlberg's Red Nose Readers).
11. Helen Craig (Susie and Alfred).
12. Peter Cross (David Lloyd's Dinosaur Days).
Titles are of the series, not individual books.
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This splendidly funny fantasy is the first of a new picture paperback series from Blackie. Billy and the kitten-sized dragon he finds on the end of his bed one morning are getting along very well until Billy's mum announces firmly 'There's no such thing as a dragon' which means everyone has to behave as if it isn't there. The dragon, however has ways of getting noticed. Jack Kent's words and pictures combine the wittily fantastic and the everyday in a delightfully dead pan style.
