Smokescreen
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BfK No. 85 - March 1994
Cover Story
The illustration on our March cover is by Chris Riddell. It is taken from Philip Ridley's new book, Meteorite Spoon, published by Viking, to whom we're grateful for help in using this illustration. Details of the book are given in the Authorgraph.
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(Weidenfeld & Nicolson History)
978-0460881975, RRP £2.99, Mass Market Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
This television tie-in will attract readers and the story itself is a strong one: the early part of the century, Chrissie's father has left her and her brothers and, rather than troop off to grandmother, Chrissie determines that they'll fend for themselves -which is how she comes to apply for, and get, a job acting in one of the first moving pictures.
