Bear's Birthday ¦ Make a Face

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BfK No. 35 - November 1985

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is from a new book of nursery rhymes illustrated by Charlotte Voake - Over the Moon published by Walker Books, 0 7445 0337 X, £6.95. We are grateful to Walker Books for help in using this illustration.

Bear's Birthday

Allan Ahlberg and Colin McNaughton

(Walker Books Ltd)

978-0744502558, RRP £2.99, Hardcover

5-8 Infant/Junior

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Make a Face

Allan Ahlberg and Colin McNaughton

(Walker Books Ltd)

978-0744502527, RRP £2.99, Paperback

5-8 Infant/Junior

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Who needs Ladybird or Ginn 360 when Ahlberg and McNaughton’s “Red Nose Readers” are to hand from Walker Books? Bear's Birthday and Make a Face are just two of the first batch which should leave us shouting for more. Controlled vocabulary? Picture to text correspondence? Repetitive text? Predictable story line? Narrative shape? It's all here - along with abundant verbal and visual inventiveness and imagination. Lots of fun all involved.

Reviewer:

Pat Triggs