The Window Doll
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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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This is a lovely book. Sian Bailey weaves the loneliness of the doll into her tale, through beautiful illustration and gentle text. The doll sits by the window watching the world go by and we share her helplessness, when she's abandoned in the garden over the autumn and winter, and her joy when she's found and mended, given beautiful new clothes and rises like a phoenix to a much loved role as the window doll. An old theme in a beautifully crafted new book.
