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BfK No. 164 - May 2007

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from Philip Reeve’s Here Lies Arthur. Philip Reeve is interviewed by Geoff Fox. Thanks to Scholastic Children’s Books for their help with this May cover.

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Brave Charlotte

Anu Stohner
 Henrike Wilson
(Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)
32pp, 978-0747581024, RRP £5.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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Charlotte is anything but the stereotypical sheep: rather than being one of the flock, she prefers climbing trees, swimming in streams, mountaineering and generally exploring, especially at night. So, when the shepherd breaks his leg, it is Charlotte, not Jack the long-in-the-tooth sheepdog, who volunteers to go for help.

I’m not sure whether this longish story, first published in Germany, has lost something in translation, but it seems somewhat disjointed and lacking in sparkle and even the dramatic paintings, for me at any rate, failed to lift the story out of the ordinary.

Reviewer: 
Jill Bennett
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