Jumanji
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Our illustration this month is from Going to Playschool by Sarah Garland. Sarah Garland is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare. We are grateful to Bodley Head and Puffin Books for their help in producing this cover.
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Would you believe that this is 'A novelisation by Todd Strasser. Based on a screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh and Greg Taylor & Jim Strain. Based on a screen story by Greg Taylor & Jim Strain and Chris Van Allsburg. Based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg'? I'd dearly love to know the difference between 'and' and '&' in the Hollywood machine. Anyway, by the time this review is printed the much-hyped film will have run its course and Robin Williams will be a few squillion dollars richer. Needless to say the book is utter tosh with each chapter being merely a description of yet more amazing special effects (which they probably are ... in the cinema). Question - How does anyone even think about writing the sentence, 'Carl Bentley, a twenty-year-old man with dark skin, looked up and smiled'?
