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Mum in a Million / Do-It-Yourself-Dad

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BfK No. 93 - July 1995

Cover Story
July's front cover features the hardback version of Paula Danziger's Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James, using an illustration by Joe Csatari. The book is published by Heinemann and we're grateful to them for their help. For further details see the Authorgraph interview with Paula Danziger.

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Mum in a Million / Do-It-Yourself-Dad

Colin West
(Macmillan Children's Books)
978-0330337465, RRP £2.99, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
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A Macmillan 2-books-in-1 'Flipper' where you read one story then literally flip the book over to read the other. Mum routinely goes food shopping and becomes 'Mum in a Million' through being the millionth customer and also through (wisely?) giving her prize holiday in Florida to the rest of the family. In Do-It-Yourself-Dad the same Mum makes good Dad's questionably successful DIY, hurting his feelings, but then there's a brilliant suggestion by their son (who's the first-person teller of both tales) to role swap. With plentiful, fun illustrations any independent reader will appreciate all aspects of this book.

Reviewer: 
Gill Roberts
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