Snake Among the Sunflowers
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Cover Story
The illustration on the cover of this issue is from the new Bodley Bookshelf edition of Penelope Farmer's The Summer Birds. We think Paul Geiger's artwork catches exactly the magic of that delightful book. We are grateful for the help of The Bodley Head in using this illustration. For details of the book and more about Penelope Farmer, turn to May We Recommend... on page 14.
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Snake Among the Sunflowers
A beautiful aunt, a mysterious professor, sidelong tight-lipped looks between parents and grandparents, not to mention a conspiracy of silence amongst the locals in an idyllic, summery French valley --- no wonder the Grant children are intrigued. Is there some connection between Grandpa's Resistance work and the German professor? Or was there a fated romance? Joan Lingard squeezes the maximum melodrama out of the situation and puts all to rights in this fairly undistinguished short novel. Lower secondary, probably girls.