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Our front cover this month features an illutration by Mark Longworth for Gillian Cross's new paperback, The Revenge of the Demon Headmaster. Puffin publish this book in April 1995 (see the Gillian Cross Authorgraph for full details) and we are grateful to them for their help in using this illustration.
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Within a loose plot of putting on a school play, this covers issues of relationship for young teenagers in a way which ought to have wide appeal. It's typically American in the way they're are raised within a structure of the apparently everyday life of home and school - comfortable and safe but also thought-provoking. Certainly it extends the Blume/Danziger stock which fills out the diet of accomplished readers and may well entice the less keen and less confident to give reading a go.
