The Light Beyond the Forest
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Cover Story
There was a boy called Thomas Mead
Who never ever learned to read.
"l wish you would!" his teacher sighed
"Why should l?" Thomas Mead replied.
The Tale of Thomas Mead (Bodley Head 0 370 30357 1, £3.25, January 1981) which is a positive and hilarious answer to `Why should I?' Pat says, `I liked the idea because both my children found reading difficult.' We are delighted to have Thomas Mead on our cover and Pat Hutchins in the Authorgraph (p. 14). For more see the Editor's Page in this issue.
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The Light Beyond the Forest
'A light beyond the forest, but a dark forest to be traversed first,' says Lancelot. This book tells of the journeying through that 'dark forest' of the knights in quest of the Holy Grail --- Lancelot, Percival, Bors, Gawain, and Galahad whose fate it is finally to see into the mystery, 'the heart of all things'. Rosemary Sutcliff draws together the strands of the Grail legend and retells it simply and clearly while retaining its essential poetry and mystery Probably only the literary will enjoy it alone; but it reads aloud well. All children should have more of the Arthurian legends in their imaginative stock than the diluted stuff of old Hollywood costume dramas and Walt Disney.
