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Little Red Riding Hood

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BfK No. 59 - November 1989

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base published this month by Macmillan (0 333 51867 5, £7.95). We are grateful to Macmillan for help in using this illustration.

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Little Red Riding Hood

Trina Schart Hyman
(Oxford University Press)
978-0192721969, RRP £2.50, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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Trina Schart Hyman manages to capture an old fashioned, sumptuous quality in her detailed illustrations without losing any lightness of touch. The marriage of text to illustration and the beautiful use of borders draw the reader along in a complete pageant of sensations. The old Grimm story retains its build-up of suspense with a strong crispness of language that increases the immediacy and yet is still accessible to newly independent readers. One of my children said, 'This book feels . . . good' going on to sniff the pages appreciatively and I knew just what she meant!

Reviewer: 
Judith Sharman
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