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BfK No. 73 - March 1992

Cover Story
Our cover illustration this month is by Shirley Hughes from The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook (see her article in this issue), published by Bodley Head (0 370 31516 2) at £8.99. We thank them for their help in reproducing an illustration from the book.

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Castle in the Air

Diana Wynne Jones
(Mammoth)
978-0749704759, RRP £3.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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Carpet seller Abdulla's dreams are ordinary enough - a castle, a princess and a lovely garden with bluebells. To realise them he's drawn into an unfamiliar realm of djinns, genies, sorcerers and bandits, each past masters at duplicity. A plot which begins with a slow smoulder soon fizzles and cracks into life as the reader is whizzed on a magic carpet into the stimulating, frantic sequence of events that characterises this author's work. My tester and I loved it.

Reviewer: 
David Bennett
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