Goodbye Max
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Cover Story
The poem on our front cover is taken from Figgie Hobbin by Charles Causley, with illustrations by Gerald Rose, re-issued by Macmillan (0 333 12078 7, £7.50) in May 1990. Figgie Hobbin was first published in 1970 and has remained in print ever since. We are grateful to Macmillan for help in using this illustration.
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An honest attempt to deal with the very emotive topic of a child coping with the death of a loved pet. As such, and as there is so little available on the subject, it deserves a place in the classroom, but the children hit on the book's weakness when they said that Holly Keller's comic-style illustrations, though popular in other books, seemed 'too jokey' and 'not right for the story'.
