The Village by the Sea
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Cover Story
The illustration on the cover of this issue of Books for Keeps is from the new large-size edition of The Complete Adventures of Tom Kitten and His Friends, published by Frederick Warne, 0 7232 3288 1, £5.95. We are grateful to Penguin Books for help in using this illustration.
Correction
We are sorry that the booklists for the articles on Judy Blume and C.S. Lewis were incomplete in our last issue. Please add the following editions – all hardback from The Bodley Head.
C. S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew
0 370 00926 6, £4.95
The Last Battle
0 370 00933 9, £4.95
Judy Blume
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
0 370 30170 6 £4.95
Superfudge
0 370 30358 X £4.50
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
0 370 30171 4, £4.50
The Village by the Sea
This heart-reading and well-told tale of life in village India, where children are forced so young to be adult, deserves a wide audience amongst our teenagers, but Guardian Award winner though it may be, I doubt whether all but a few will persevere with it unless coaxed by a sensitive and informed adult. For Hari, Lila and their two younger sisters things seem destined only to get worse --- a drunken father, a chronically sick mother, debt and more debt, starvation and deprivation, and now the onslaught of industrialization, which threatens their whole way of life --- yet the human spirit to survive blazes through, and with tenacity and hard work the brother and sister are sure to keep on coping and adapting --- 'we are here on earth, we cannot leave it. We must live here, somehow,' says Hari. Highly recommended for all teachers and as many pupils, mid/upper secondary, as possible.