First Things First, A Baby's Companion
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This month BfK features Jane Ray’s cover for The Twelve Dancing Princesses. We’re particularly delighted to have the opportunity to use this illustration as it enables us to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Orchard Books - they’re 10 this year! And also to thank them for their help in producing our July cover.
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First Things First, A Baby's Companion
A chunky and entertaining book that has something of the Ahlbergs' The Babies Catalogue in its background, but is also entirely Charlotte Voake's own charming and stylish invention. Nursery rhymes, the alphabet, numbers, shapes, animals, colours, all follow each other through cheerful, busy pages which demand to be shared with a small child sitting on an adult's knee - a one-to-one book, I think, rather than for a group to share. It would be nice to think that all small children had a copy for bedtime.
