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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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Look What I've Got

Anthony Browne
(Methuen young books)
978-0416959406, RRP £1.95, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
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A welcome issue in paperback of Browne's slowly unfolding tale of the boastful and indulged boy who has everything. The thoughtful and introverted friend has the most valuable thing of all: an imagination. I read Browne's work all the time with eights up to twelves. I learn from this one that the author/artist slows down his telling and showing so that the young are brought to reflect upon the tale -- and their reading of it. The surreal world of Willy the Wimp and A Walk in the Park is here. Get ten-year-olds to tell their own story of the last page. This is the kind of reading -- powerful, imaginative, challenging -- that the schemes don't begin to engage in.

Reviewer: 
Colin Mills
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