A First Golden Treasury of Animal Verse
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BfK No. 69 - July 1991
Cover Story
The illustration on the front of BfK this month is the cover of The Book of the Banshee by Anne Fine (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Hamish Hamilton and we thank them for their help in using Derek Brazell's illustration.
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Send to friendA First Golden Treasury of Animal Verse
(Macmillan Children's Books)
978-0333551912, RRP £4.99, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
A most attractively produced book with many colour plates and line-drawings but disappointing in its range. It's very traditional in approach (there's nothing here that couldn't have been anthologised 50 years ago). Along with favourites from Hardy, Yeats, Blake and Emily Dickinson go a great many undistinguished and sentimental jingles, resulting in a narrowness of focus and an over-emphasis on twee anthropomorphism.
