A View to Thrill; The Eiffel Target; Sandblast; Live and Let's Dance
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The illustration on our cover is taken from Think of an Eel, Karen Wallace, ill. Mike Bostock, published by Walker (0 7445 2250 1, £6.99) - see the article 'Facts... With the Freshness of Fiction' for more about this book and others in the 'Read and Wonder' series. We are grateful to Walker Books for their help in using this illustration.
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Being the adventures of James Bond Jnr., nephew to 007, a very adolescent schoolboy at Warfield Academy for the scions of the ultra-elite. The books depict, in unveneered plywood prose, the adventures of James and his chums in their struggles against the various cardboard cut-out villains of saboteurs and criminals united in mayhem, an acronym I thought quite appropriate for the people who put together this vapid, venal and execrably illustrated package. At least the publicity material is honest about its literary aims: 'With an all-action animated ITV series to be screened from January 1993 and the launch of a range of Hasbro toys already selling out in the US, James Bond Jnr. is taking over! There's stationery, toys, gifts...'
Young readers deserve better than this. A void these books as you would a disease.
