The Storm Seal
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Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from the picture book adaptation of C S Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe illustrated by Christian Birmingham. Thanks to Collins Children’s Books for their help in producing this November cover.
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The Storm Seal
Neil Reed
Peter, an old sailor who is also a naturalist and animal lover, teaches the village children to respect the feral nature of animals when a seal pup is washed up on the beach. Generous use of metaphor in the descriptive passages about the Cornish coast contrast with a more straightforward account of how the seal is looked after. The best of the rather stilted illustrations feature the dramatic seascapes and the wild animals in their natural habitat.
