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BfK No. 22 - September 1983

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is from the new paperback edition of S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders (Fontana Lions 0 00 671427 7, £1.00). We are grateful to Fontana Lions for making it possible to use it.

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Three Little Pigs

 Carolyn Bull
 Wendy Boase
(Walker Books Ltd)
978-0744500165, RRP £0.75, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
First Fairytales
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Three Bears

 Gillian Chapman
 Wendy Boase
(Walker Books Ltd)
978-0744500141, RRP £0.75, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
First Fairytales
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Red Riding Hood

 Heather Philpott
 Wendy Boase
(Walker Books Ltd)
978-0744500158, RRP £0.75, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
First Fairytales
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Billy Goats Gruff

 Carolyn Bull
 Wendy Boase
(Walker Books Ltd)
978-0744500172, RRP £0.75, Hardcover
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
First Fairytales
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Cheap and cheerful, and more attractively presented than the Ladybird versions, best sums up these four 'First Fairytales', hardbacks aimed mainly at parents with preschoolers. My advice as always with traditional tales is, if you don't like the choice of words in the text, substitute your own; and though the pictures are not to my taste - Paul Galdone's illustrations for these stories have yet to be bettered for the very young in my view - the rather chocolate-box style adopted here may appeal to some youngsters.

Reviewer: 
Jill Bennett
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