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BfK No. 127 - March 2001

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is Sharon Creech’s The Wanderer. Sharon Creech is interviewed by Suzanne Manczuk. Our thanks to Macmillan Children’s Books for their help in producing this March cover.

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The Big White Book with almost nothing in it

Mike Brownlow
(Ragged Bears)
22pp, 978-1857142051, RRP £9.99, Hardcover
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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Take some blank white pages and develop it into a game of hide-and-seek told in rhyme by the various clown-like inhabitants who hide behind flaps of all shapes and sizes; gutter-snipes creep across cracks between the spreads, gradually revealing themselves as the reader digs deeper into the book. Add a few fonts designed to mirror the shape and size of the particular flap-dweller, a pair or pop-up scissors and the odd book worm to perforate pages. The end result is a confection of a book - big on style but without the vital ingredient: story. Nevertheless, a pleasant diversion and a useful starting point for children's own explorations into book-making techniques.

Reviewer: 
Jill Bennett
3
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