The Small Potatoes' Busy Beach Day
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The illustration on our cover by Denis Ryan is taken from the Teen Tracks paperback of The Pigman's Legacy by Paul Zindel (0 00 672977 0, £2.25) to he published in April. We are grateful to Collins for help in using this illustration.
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Illustrated by Richard Brown
Stories about 'The Small Potatoes' have become firm favorites with many six to eights, and enthusiasts will not be disappointed with this one. Lively pictures and witty, sensitively-spaced text tell of a day's exploits on the beach with Molly, Sue, Chris, Sam, Spot the Dog, et al.
Ziefert's skill is in making stories out of conversations which accompany ordinary action. Read the story aloud with top infants to see how oral language is shaped into storytelling. Readers and listeners are given time to reflect upon, and daydream about, the events. The banter is wonderfully caught. The characters are well-rounded and have their own individuality; the girls get their own fair slice of the action, too: still too rare. Strongly recommended.
