Papa Lucky's Shadow
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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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Papa Lucky's Shadow - his unnamed grand-daughter - is the narrator of this story set in the Italian quarter of and American city. 'Papa Lucky was a great mover. When he was young he could dance the sequins off a champ.' Now he's old he puts on his tap-dancing shoes and starts practising again ready to hit the streets, with his grand-daughter as his hat girl, for a spot of busking. A finely illustrated story with the warmth of family relationships, especially that of grandfather and grand-daughter, dancing across the pages. The 'hat girl', not to mention the reader, is caught up in the rhythm, movement and excitement of the dance.
