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BfK No. 52 - September 1988
Cover Story The illustrations on our cover are taken from Starting School by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, published by Viking Kestrel (0 670 81688 4, £6.95). We are grateful to Viking Kestrel for help in using these illustrations.
It is now some years since we 'Authorgraphed' the Ahlbergs (May 1982). Janet Ahlberg herself rarely gives interviews. Judith Elkin, who has known Janet for many years, talked to this singular illustrator...
Jill Bennett recommends some books, published over the last three or four years, which she has found 'work' well in the context of learning to read with real books