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BfK No. 42 - January 1987

Cover Story
Our cover this issue is taken from the jacket illustration by Trevor Webster for Peter Carter's Bury the Dead (OUP 0 19 271493 7, £9.95). We are grateful for help from OUP in using this illustration.

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The Return of the Antelope

Willis Hall and Mary Hoffman
 Faith Jaques
(Puffin Books)
978-0140506945, RRP £1.95, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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A gorgeous Picture Puffin this -- a real cameo of Victorian nursery life, beautifully illustrated. Willis Hall wrote the Granada TV series--well worth viewing -- and this book, with Mary Hoffman's text, is based on it. The story of two children who rescue three Lilliputians -- yes Gulliver's Travels yet lives (who says the classics age dead?)--is lively and easily readable by those who have progressed to more elaborate fiction. I've sold all the copies in the school bookshop already, though I have it on good authority that it is the pictures that clinch the sale!

Reviewer: 
Nigel Spencer
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