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The illustration on the front of BfK this month is the cover of Seventeen Against the Dealer by Cynthia Voigt (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Collins and we thank them for their help in using this illustration.
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Truckers
We meet the tiny nomes in this first of a trilogy which echoes Watership Down as they embark on an odyssey to find a new home. A group escape the harshness of the wild and find themselves in a department store inhabited by more worldly nomes. Their knowledge of human life is gleaned from signs: there's no 'outside' world because it says 'Everything Under One Roof'. When they leave ('Everything Must Go'), a whole team of them co-ordinating the steering of a lorry, they see a sign saying 'Road Works Ahead': ' "Why say it? I mean you could understand 'Road Doesn't Work Ahead'. Why tell us it works?" ' How's this for Knowledge about Language? Sets for groups at least.
