King Dicky Bird and the Bossy Princess
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BfK No. 50 - May 1988
Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is by Ruth Brown and is taken from her latest book Ladybird, Ladybird published by Andersen Press (0 86264 200 0, £5.95). We are grateful to Andersen Press for help in using this.
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Illustrated by Victor Ambrus
(Mammoth)
978-0416075021, RRP £1.75, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
As usual with books by Dorothy Edwards, the children enjoyed the story with great gusto. This reworking of the popular old tale has many charming new touches despite the rather twee inclusion of a few modern references --- the princes arriving in planes; the princess being offered lifts by passing motorists! The book read well aloud to infants and was immediately seized upon by older infants and first-year juniors to read to themselves.
