Just Jack
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Cover Story
This month's cover features an illustration by Victor Ambrus (see Authorgraph) for Gulliver's Travels, retold by James Riordan. It is published in July by Oxford University Press (0 19 279897 9, £9.95) and we are grateful to OUP for their help in using this picture
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A clutch of happy little stories featuring the 5-year-old-baby in a warmly depicted family. Jack has a brush with headlice, learns to swim, meets Father Christmas and turns into a dog until his sixth birthday. These events are portrayed in a straightforward manner which is nevertheless sharply observant and rich with humour. Younger children will recognise their own preoccupations in these stories, which are lively enough for reading aloud, absorbing enough for reading alone.
