Summer in Small Street ¦ Will You Come on Wednesday?
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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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Will You Come on Wednesday?
Two books presenting short stories within multicultural contexts. Will You Come on Wednesday? offers five stories focused on the interaction of an Asian culture with an English school system. Summer in Small Street consists of eight anecdotes about life along an inner city street. In both books the stories are smooth, slight and optimistic. They present plenty of positive images and some light entertainment, but at times the narratives are so thinly fleshed out that the good intentions behind them become as visible as the bones of a starving dog.
