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I'm Going on a Dragon Hunt

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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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I'm Going on a Dragon Hunt

Maurice Jones
Illustrated by Charlotte Firmin
(Puffin Books)
978-0140507119, RRP £3.99, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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We used to do this book when I was a Brownie, only then it was about a little Red Indian boy who went for walk 'through the long grass, swish, swish; through the mud, slerp, slerp; etc. etc. until he gets to a cave, finds a bear and runs home through all the obstacles in reverse. In this version of the old game, it's a little boy who is hunting dragons, otherwise the format is the same. He travels through, up, over and across a variety of terrain with a variety of sound effects required until he comes face to face with...yes, the dragon. It is great fun, easy to read and interestingly illustrated. The sort of book, in fact, that is re-read and re-read just for pure fun. Very successful.

Reviewer: 
Liz Waterland
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