Here Comes Pob
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This issue's cover is taken from an illustration by Jerry Pinkney for The Tales of Uncle Remus by Julius Lester (Bodley Head, 0 370 31089 6, £9.95). We are grateful for help from Bodley Head in using this illustration.
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Edited by Anne Wood
A generous and eclectic collection of stories and poems which will be enjoyed by sixes to nines. Collections for dipping into are still rare for novice readers; this will be welcome for storytelling sessions, too. Highlights for my seven and eight-year-old co-readers were Alan Garner's wonderfully economical retelling of The Little Red Hen and Diana Wynne Jones' The Thing which shows how a gifted writer can work well within the short story form. With some Milligan poems and a couple of Helen Cresswell stories amidst much else, this one's a winner.
