The Picnic
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Cover Story
The illustration on our cover by Catherine Denvir is taken from the Lions Tracks edition of Where Nobody Sees by James Watson (0 00 672986 X, £2.50 pbk) published by Collins. We are grateful to Collins for help in using this illustration.
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This book is a variation on the theme of The Shrinking of Treehorn and was very popular with the younger infants. Alison's mother and Jeremy's father were too busy to take the children to the park. The children decided to shrink them - after all Teddy's dress had once been Alison's before it shrunk - so that they could take over decision-making for a change. This exercising of power over adults appealed to many of the children and lively discussions took place as to just what they would do if they too could shrink their parents and, even more subversively to my mind, their teachers!