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BfK No. 4 - September 1980

Cover story
Mother Goose Comes to Cable Street (Kestrel/Puffin), a collection of nursery rhymes chosen by Rosemary Stones and Andrew Mann, and illustrated by Dan Jones is featured on our cover this month. See Editor's Page for more.

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At Madam Muriel's

Mary Denison
(Knight)
978-0340248805, RRP £0.85, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
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What happens to children whose mother's acting career is well past its peak? When she's working they follow her from one lot of lodgings to another; when she's searching they're palmed off on largely unwilling friends - like Madam Muriel who runs a third-rate stage school. It's an interesting theme and on the whole a more realistic tale than its poor title and cover suggest. It slows a bit in the middle and the Community Service Groups kids are not terribly convincing. But the two central characters - Delia (12 and moody stage-struck sister Nell (14) - are well drawn; and an all-round happy ending is commendably rejected.

Reviewer: 
Margaret Cooper
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