The Secret Line
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The March cover of BfK features Dilly the Dinosaur who is 10 years old this year. Her author, Tony Bradman, is the subject of our Authorgraph this month. We are grateful to Reed Books for their help in reproducing this illustration from Susan Hellard's original artwork.
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The Secret Line
Jo blurs the distinction between her real world (half-white, stepfather, bullied and not over-popular) and her inner dream world (Mit, a dusky, handsome friend who leads her on adventures and promises a brilliant future). The result is a touchy adolescent, positively not at one with herself or anybody else. Corlett has charted Jo's journey to a kind of peace employing the London Underground system as a central symbol of where harsh reality (muggings and racism) meets fantastical dreams (jungle harmony and acceptance). It's long and quite slow, so only a doughty reader will get through it.
