Gerbils' Secret Place ¦ The Gerbil's Outing
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Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is from the newly-published Robert Cormier novel Beyond the Chocolate War, (Gollancz, 0 575 03711 3, £7.95). The illustration is by Caroline Binch and shows in the centre Archie Costello, Assigner of the Vigils, holding the white ball which readers of The Chocolate War will remember as all important in deciding who undertakes the assignments that are required from certain unfortunate individuals. In this sequel new characters join him and the old return to play out Archie's last term at Trinity High. We are grateful to Gollancz for help in using this illustration.
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Gerbils' Secret Place
The Gerbil's Outing
Two gerbil adventures from Helen Piers wherein she uses her unfailing formula of superb colour photographs and a patterned, story-telling text. Here she introduces a new character, Suko, who in the first story tries, unsuccessfully at first, to find somewhere that nobody else will discover to make her nest and, as we eventually learn, to have her babies. In the second story Suko, having lost her four offspring one by one on a walk round the garden, is finally reunited with her family and gains an extra charge, though this one is somewhat different. Ideal books for apprentice readers of all ages.
