Lily and the Present
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Cover Story
This month our cover features The Wheel of Surya (see Authorgraph for details), with artwork by Caroline Binch. The paperback of Jamila Gavin’s book was published by Mammoth in July 1994 and we’re most grateful to them for their help in using this illustration.
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An odd story, this, about a little girl who decides to buy a present for her baby brother, something 'big, bright and beatiful'. She goes to the store and chooses three unlikely things for which she cannot pay and so she asks the shop to 'charge it please'. Later, she changes her mind, leaves the parcels on the shop floor and finds a balloon for 20p. But what is going to happen when the bill comes in, that's what I want to know ... and how do I explain 'charge it' as a way of life to my less advantaged infants?
