Roseanne and the Magic Mirror
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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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Roseanne and the Magic Mirror
Roseanne, an unhappy schoolgirl isolate, gets the chance to abandon the dingy ordinariness of herself when a magic mirror separates the saintly and sinister aspects of her character, requiring her to choose between them. After experimenting with both personas, Roseanne manages to integrate her selves into a state of enriched mediocrity. Here is a book full of humorous incidents with a sense of serious dilemma at its core, and a sense of sympathy for the troubled children represented by the heroine.
