The Snow Vulture
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Cover Story
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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The Snow Vulture
The story of identical twins Clive and Carl - alike in looks but opposite in temperament. After a snowfall it's the peace-loving Clive who builds a snowman, while Carl's creation is an aggressive vulture. Fed by Carl's badness, it harden and grows until even he is terrified. The only way he can destroy it is to enter into an alliance with Clive and purge the wickedness from his life. This is a fable: evil spawns evil, good does not have to be weak. The message is clearly delivered in a setting which will be familiar to many warring siblings from Years 6-8.
