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BfK No. 44 - May 1987

Cover Story
This issue's cover is taken from an illustration by Jerry Pinkney for The Tales of Uncle Remus by Julius Lester (Bodley Head, 0 370 31089 6, £9.95). We are grateful for help from Bodley Head in using this illustration.

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Down with Taffy Sinclair

Betsy Haynes
(Corgi)
978-0552523578, RRP £1.50, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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Oh dear -- this is dreadful! It sets out to examine the preoccupations of the adolescent girl and falls back miserably on the cliché of the bust -- or lack of it. Haynes presents five flat-chested teenagers in an American high school who are envious of Taffy Sinclair's increasing dimensions and who devise ways of becoming better endowed. This could have been amusing but the predictable storyline and endlessly repetitive language puts paid to that. I even found myself counting the number of times the main character says 'I could have died' and wishing heartily that she had! Perhaps every school ought to have a copy, as it provides marvellous material for spoof novels written on the same theme. That's certainly the only way it would ever get into my classroom!

Reviewer: 
Val Randall
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