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Mr Wolf's Birthday Surprise

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BfK No. 67 - March 1991

Cover Story
The illustration on the front of BfK this month is the cover of The Secret of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Collins and we thank them for their help in using Graham Philpot's illustration.

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Mr Wolf's Birthday Surprise

Colin Hawkins
(Mammoth)
978-0749702847, RRP £3.50, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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If you liked the other Mr Wolf books, this is in a similar vein but, beware, it's much longer and denser than the previous titles and requires a fairly sophisticated reader of picture-clues to get the most from the surprise ending. For this reason it's more inclined to the upper end of the age-range. I think. The story of Mr Wolf's frustration and incomprehension, as all his friends refuse to play with him because they have parcels to deliver or are going out to tea, gave a great deal of pleasure to newly-independent readers, all of whom were very generous in explaining to me what the joke was!

Reviewer: 
Liz Waterland
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