Thicker Than Water
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The illustration on the front of BfK this month is from Let's Go Home, Little Bear by Martin Waddell and illustrated by Barbara Firth (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Walker Books and we thank them for their help in using this illustration.
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Thicker Than Water
Into Becky's life comes a cousin, Will, she didn't know she had. With him arrives both the disturbance of his actual past and a ghostly voice from history. In intertwining narratives, Becky and Will tell the story and add their versions of each other's telling. In this way we have a double bearing on the ghost - the spirit, it turns out, of a boy lost in the local mines and now desperate to be laid to rest. It's splendidly developed right through to the climax in the midst of snow and Christmas. A rich fantasy for independent or group reading.