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Patrick's Perfect Pancake

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BfK No. 68 - May 1991

Cover Story
The illustration on the front of BfK this month is from Let's Go Home, Little Bear by Martin Waddell and illustrated by Barbara Firth (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Walker Books and we thank them for their help in using this illustration.

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Patrick's Perfect Pancake

Caroline Crossland
(Walker Books Ltd)
978-0744516036, RRP £2.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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I'm in two minds about this book. The story is entertaining - about a chef who takes up farming and whose animals, being free-range, produce such wonderful milk and eggs that Patrick's pancakes win the Queen's competition for the best in the land. Well told and nicely illustrated, the anti factory farming message is not too unsubtle. It is, however, over simplistic: profit and productivity are the villains, free-range food is described as 'happier tasting' (whatever that is) and at the end all the baddie farmers let their animals loose and everyone lives happily ever after. Is this an entirely fair message to pass on to young children? Surely, even organic farmers have some concern for profit and productivity?

Reviewer: 
Liz Waterland
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