The School Trip
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The illustration on the front of BfK this month is the cover of The Book of the Banshee by Anne Fine (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Hamish Hamilton and we thank them for their help in using Derek Brazell's illustration.
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The School Trip
A beautifully illustrated and handsomely printed book describing a class visit to the Natural History Museum. Most children will find something to recognise and enthuse over in the text or pictures - nausea on the bus, awesome exhibits, the teachers' ancestral output of corny jokes and vapid tasks. But aren't most school trips more rife with catastrophe than this one, or have I just been unlucky with my outings? A bit more chaos would have added a touch of realism to a somewhat bland storyline.