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Finding Robin Redbreast

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BfK No. 53 - November 1988

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from King Change-a-lot, written and illustrated by Babette Cole and published by Hamish Hamilton (0 241 12491 3, £6.95). We are grateful to Hamish Hamilton for help in using this illustration.

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Finding Robin Redbreast

Harriet Ziefert and Mavis Smith
(Picture Lions)
978-0006630029, RRP £2.95, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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A very pleasant, chummy story about Kate and her daddy going birdwatching and looking out for a robin. There is a different bird on each page, with a flap to lift and find out which kind it is. The idea is a good one and will be fun to use (sturdy too, although with reservation at nursery or playgroup), teaching children to search the page for detail, anticipate what they may find and then see if it is what they are looking for, which at the end of course it is.

Probably I will be accused of being too fussy, but I do think it is a pity that the final picture of the robin doesn't look real. The ones I know and love have brown feathers; unfortunately this one has grey!

Reviewer: 
Moira Small
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