The Pirate Queen
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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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The Pirate Queen
Illustrated by Jan Smith
(Orchard Books)
978-1852136451, RRP £3.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
A jolly, likeable story, in which the pictures and words work together admirably and which is full of sly humour an imaginative ideas. Maggie is girl who enjoys playing pirates. In the course of the game she gets filthy, wrecks the shed, tips up the dustbin and vandalises her mother's dressing table. All has to be put right when she falls into the power of the Great Ma who manages to make the inevitable clearing up quite bearable. Good fun for a wide age-range.
