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Chocolate Porridge and Other Stories

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BfK No. 60 - January 1990

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from War Boy: A Country Childhood, written and illustrated by Michael Foreman and published in October 1989 by Pavilion Books (185145 353 9, £9.99). We are grateful to Pavilion for help in using this illustration.

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Chocolate Porridge and Other Stories

Margaret Mahy
Illustrated by Shirley Hughes
(Puffin Books)
978-0140329063, RRP £3.75, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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Twenty-one well crafted miniatures depict a variety of enchanting incidents, some set in the real world, most in a mutable interzone between folk tale and whimsy. Though some of the stories quiver on the brink of mere tweeness, this is a useful bag to dip into for an impromptu read-aloud, and has brought some happy moments to my class of seven-year-olds.

Reviewer: 
George Hunt
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