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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.

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Corduroy

Don Freeman
(Puffin Books)
978-0140501735, RRP £4.91, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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A Pocket for Corduroy

Don Freeman
(Puffin Books)
978-0140503524, RRP £4.59, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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These two books have hardly touched the shelves since I first read them aloud, passing from hand to hand and definitely looking well loved! Corduroy is a small teddy bear with a missing button who resides rather despondently in a department store until he is spotted by Lisa. Her mother refuses to buy him because he looks tatty. That night he sets off in desperation, braving all sorts of dangers in the pitch black store to search unsuccessfully for his button. Returned ignominiously to the toy department by the store detective, all seems lost when...

Reviewer: 
Judith Sharman
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