The Winter Sleepwalker
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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 Winter Sleepwalker
Illustrated by Quentin Blake
A one-eyed healer enters a village in search of his father's dying words, a king mourns his departed queen in a room full of knots, the immortals play endless games of football in the sky. In eight stories ranging from the comically capricious to the thoroughly sinister, Joan Aiken treats the reader to a cornucopia of eerie images, narrative twists and hauntingly indeterminate endings. This is a feast of fecund invention, and a scintillating resource for storytime.
