Ordinary Seaman
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Cover Story
The illustration on our cover this month is by Andrew Skilleter from Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone. Susan Cooper is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. The book is published by Bodley Head, to whom we are grateful for help in using this illustration.
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Ordinary Seaman
'I went to the ship's side and leant on the rail ... but someone had removed a section, and I leant into empty air. 'The reader is caught in the opening page and drawn into memoirs which turn events into stories linked by growing up and by water - from the family move to the Fens in the late 1930s, through life in the Navy and then a job as a reporter. It's fun to read and this and the skill of the narrative make it an excellent choice for book boxes and collections of literary non-iction suitable for the second half of KS3 and beyond.
