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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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Illustrated by Neil Reed
When his Irish American Grandad makes a trip back to his old home in Ireland, young Patrick goes too. They fly in a jumbo jet and drive to Tullyvey on the west coast of Ireland. This is a much deeper book than the simple, first-person narrative text would suggest. The finely executed, realistic illustrations say so much about the contrasts between the city and country, the simple and sophisticated lifestyles, about memories, belonging, relationships and emotions.
