The Big Baby
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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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The latest paperback picture book from the master surrealist of children's literature resembles a Technicolor version of one of the disturbing stories he illustrated for Ian McEwan's The Daydreamer. A very blokish bloke, obsessed with holding age at bay, reverts into a man-headed baby after chugalug-ging a whole bottle of elixa de yoof, and everybody around him finds his plight rip-roaringly funny. The nightmarishly saccharine smiles of the adult pram-gazers on the cover of the book epitomise the story's troubling conflation of horror and hilarity. The young, for the time, being, will love this fantasy. Many of us grown-ups will be unable to read it without a frisson or two ...
