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Dr Xargle's Book of Earth Weather

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BfK No. 86 - May 1994

Cover Story
Our cover this month is taken from Jane Hissey's new book, Ruff, which is published by Hutchinson. We're grateful to them for their help in reproducing this illustration.

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Dr Xargle's Book of Earth Weather

Jeanne Willis
Illustrated by Tony Ross
(Red Fox)
978-0099299417, RRP £4.50, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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According to Dr Xargle there are only four sorts of weather on earth: 'Too hot. 'Too cold. Too wet and too windy.' His talk to his class of shaggy, green, multi-eyed aliens is only slightly off-beam. Why else would earthlings rub each other with fat and lie out in the sun until brown if not to get cooked? And what other explanation is there for the sudden appearance in winter of strange white earthlings with black eyes and orange noses than an invasion? Tony Ross has fun illustrating these and other misinterpretations of the vagaries of the Earth Climate for the amusement of earthlets and earthlings alike.

Reviewer: 
Jill Bennett
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