Calculator Annie
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Cover Story
This month we feature the cover of Chris Powling's latest title, Where the Quaggy Bends (see Authorgraph). The book is published in July by HarperCollins (0 00 185417 8, £7.99; 0 00 674087 1, £3.50 pbk) and we are grateful to them for their help in using this illustration.
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Annie suffers from maths phobia until she falls asleep with a calculator under her pillow and wakes up with the capacity to divide astronomical integers by multiplace decimals. Her gift brings fame and status, but will it see her through a public contest with the most prodigious mathematicians in the world? An entertaining story with a pleasant resolution, this book should make a good read for children acquiring independence, and might spark off some discussion on why so many of us find calculation a misery.
