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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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The Mona Lisa Mystery

Pat Hutchins
 Laurence Hutchins
(Young Lions)
978-0006725893, RRP £2.99, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
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An enjoyable, if rather complicated, tale of children on a trip to Paris solving an art theft. This is Pat Hutchins at her most devious. Frankly I became rather confused and lost some of the threads of evidence -- but that can be put down to creeping senility! An able junior should easily manage to cope with the story, and rejoice at the far-fetched successful conclusion. I quite like the black and white cartoony illustrations; the vintage coach ammuses me. Is the Hampstead area education office utilising a fleet of museum transport?

Reviewer: 
Nigel Spencer
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