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BfK No. 59 - November 1989

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base published this month by Macmillan (0 333 51867 5, £7.95). We are grateful to Macmillan for help in using this illustration.

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Floella Hits the Roof

Jane Holiday
 Kate Simpson
(Young Lions)
978-0006733751, RRP £2.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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When Floella goes to the assistance of a dragon who has crash-landed onto the roof of Great Bootington Town Hall, she becomes involved in a conspiracy, hatched by the ghoulish Miss Squidger, to seize the lost sapphires of the Bight family, lovable and impoverished aristocrats who are trying to protect their island from Squidger's clutches. This is a convoluted tale whose plot I found too slight to carry all the whimsical embellishments. However, it is a charming enough story, with some touches of dry humour, and it should appeal to competent readers who like their dragons to be slightly cuddly and their villains not too threatening.

Reviewer: 
George Hunt
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