The Tunnel
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On the front of BfK this month is the cover for Raymond Briggs's new book, THE MAN (see Chris Powling's interview with Raymond Briggs in this issue). It was published by Julia MacRae in August and we thank them for their help in using this illustration.
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The Tunnel
An outdoor-loving extrovert brother and a book-loving introvert sister are always arguing, but their mum sends them off together to play. He finds a tunnel and wants to explore; she doesn't, but when he fails to come back, she goes searching for him despite her fear. Inside the tunnel and Browne's illustrations is a world drawn from her imagination and the fairy tale, a world which has to be explored. How much of this world the reader discovers will depend upon powers of observation and his or her own imagination and knowledge of fairy tales. This is Browne at his most haunting.
