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Cover Story
This month's cover features Jean Ure's new book Faces at the Window (see the Jean Ure Authorgraph) with a photograph by Oliver Hunter. The book is published by Corgi Freeway and we are grateful to Transworld Publishers for their help in using this illustration.
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A spectacularly attractive picture book in which the illustrations have been created out of natural objects and clay to give dramatic, three-dimensional and intensely realistic scenes of New York. These took the artist two years to create and were exhibited in several art galleries. However, I have to say that I wish as much care had been taken over the story itself. A very slight, rather self-conscious tale about a pigeon who gets lost really does not do justice to the artwork and leaves a feeling of disappointment. Jeannie Baker needs a story worthy of her talents ... this isn't it.
