The Boy with Two Shadows
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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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Illustrated by Jenny Williams
Margaret Mahy has the knack of being able to take fantasy and make it seem everyday; through no fault of his own, the boy is selected by a witch as being suitable to take care of her shadow. The witch's shadow, predictably, gets him into trouble and finally scares away the boy's own shadow, but throughout the bizarre happenings others around appear to accept the situation and he is left to cope as best he can. It is an interesting book and drew mixed reactions from the children: some (be warned) found it very frightening but all were fascinated.
