Toad Food and Measle Soup ¦ Lucky Charms and Birthday Wishes
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The startling illustration on our cover is by John Marriott and is taken from the cover of the paperback edition of The Willow Street Kids (Piccolo, 0 330 29701 5, £1.75). We are grateful to Piccolo for help in using this illustration.
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Toad Food and Measle Soup
Illustrated by Diane De Groat
Lucky Charms and Birthday Wishes
Illustrated by Diane De Groat
Humane, witty and very accessible stories: the kind which American writers seem so adept at. Each book has five free-standing tales about Leo (in Toad Soup) and Emily (in Lucky Charms), two children finding out about friendship. Very good on school life, and the ways in which children deal with rivalry and some of the strange rituals of classroom life: spelling tests, for instance. Some imaginative writing, in which the children are rounded characters, full of fears and ambiguity. The adults are real too. Highly recommended for eights to elevens.
