Tortoise's Dream
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Mother Goose Comes to Cable Street (Kestrel/Puffin), a collection of nursery rhymes chosen by Rosemary Stones and Andrew Mann, and illustrated by Dan Jones is featured on our cover this month. See Editor's Page for more.
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An African folk tale of the 'pourquoi' variety in which a number of animals try in vain, to remember the name of the tree said, in tortoise's dream, to bear all the fruits of the earth. The misadventures of the various animals in their attempts to find the Omumbo-rombonga tree have resulted in howls of laughter from all the children I have shared this with; and Joanna Troughton's illustrations really do capture the humour of the story - £4.50 seems just a little steep even so.
