Keeping Henry
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Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from The Ankle Grabber, written by Rose Impey and illustrated by Moira Kemp (1870817 07 9, £5.50). The book is published by Ragged Bears and is one of the Creepies series (for full details see page 4). We are grateful to Ragged Bears and Rose Impey for help in using this illustration.
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A wonderful book. The author, with her brothers and mother, is evacuated to a farm on the Welsh borders during the last war. The central focus is Henry, the young squirrel, made homeless too, who gradually takes over their lives and their belongings. He's a marvellously vivid creature and children will love the sections which describe this antics. The book has a remarkable quality of suggesting the running threads of lives and place. Buy lots of copies. It's one of the rare books which can sustain whole class reading, and will itself teach many things about what books can do.
