Picnic on the Moon
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BfK No. 81 - July 1993
Cover Story
The illustration (by George Smith) on our front cover this month is taken from Pete Johnson's Everything Changes (see the Pete Johnson Authorgraph for details). We are grateful to Reed Books for their help in using this cover.
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Illustrated by Joep Bertrams
(Macmillan Children's Books)
978-0330327206, RRP £3.50, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
These poems present a set of quirky observations from oblique perspectives: children commenting on adult rituals, animals observing nature and humanity, and in the final, more poignant sequence, aliens' and exiles' reflections on the Earth. There are also three short prose meditations on episodes of fear. Joep Bertram's illustrations provide an aptly surrealistic accompaniment to a collection of perplexities.
