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BfK No. 62 - May 1990

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from One World by Michael Foreman, published by Andersen Press, (0 86264 289 2, £6.95). We are grateful to Andersen Press for their help in using this illustration and to Michael Foreman for the article.

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Roscoe's Leap

Gillian Cross
(Puffin Books)
978-0140340136, RRP £4.99, Paperback
14+ Secondary/Adult
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Strange to find this as a Puffin. It's unsettling from the offset and there's no safety until the final lines. It seems to be just about the rediscovery and mending of a giant toy guillotine, but this toy has created its own terror and it is human lives which need mending. The pun of the title is typical of this many layered novel. Lots to share for 3rd-years up.

Reviewer: 
Adrian Jackson
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