The Alchymist's Cat
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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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The Alchymist's Cat
(Hodder Wayland)
978-0750008907, RRP £5.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
Robin Jarvis is enjoying mining this area of fiction with powerful hocus-pocus wizardry set here in roughly believable seventeenth-century London, with Plague and Great Fire as plot extras. There are key parts for the cats and some fire and brimstone scenes of magic warfare. Stirring stuff, sustained admirably with yet more to come.
