Katy's Kit Car
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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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It says a great deal for the feminist movement that this book, with its emphasis on the female members of the family putting together a kit car to surprise the unmechanically-minded father, should have raised no eyebrows but have been taken in quite a matter of fact manner by the children in my class as just a very good story. The transformation of the family's wreck of a car into a shining sports model was detailed enough to satisfy everyone's interest yet just as exciting and magical as Cinderella's ballgown!
