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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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Bleak mid-winter in many ways. The false Christmas cheer and Morris's parents' rows and separation are the surface and dour reality, against which is set Morris's growing fascination with a medieval war game, the latest toy of his Uncle Patrick who's found that the way to deal with people is to withdraw from them. It's a possibility for Morris too until he's drawn into the lives of the characters in the model landscape, resisting Patrick's cold reason and becoming deeply enmeshed in the ties of human feeling.
