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BfK No. 23 - November 1983

Cover Book
The illustration on our cover this issue is by Michael Foreman and is taken from the endpapers of Dickens' . A Christmas Carol, (Gollancz, 0 575 033118, £5.95). We are grateful to Gollancz for help in using this illustration.

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Lola at the Riverbank

Yvan Pommaux
(Methuen)
978-0907144434, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
Pocket Bears
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Lola at the Riverbank is a French translation whose text is solely in speech bubbles and an interesting attempt at integrating natural history facts with fiction. I am not sure that I like the mix of anthorpormorphic fantasy and animal facts: it seems to me a danger that either could obscure the other. In this book the story dominates so that the information about herons and salmon might be missed by the reader. The companion volume Lola and the Dandelion Mystery is more overtly an attempt to convey the life history of a flowering plant, and the story suffers as a consequence.

Anthropomorphism apart, the pictures in both books are closely observed and for the most part true to life.

Reviewer: 
Jill Bennett
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