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The illustration on our cover is taken from Think of an Eel, Karen Wallace, ill. Mike Bostock, published by Walker (0 7445 2250 1, £6.99) - see the article 'Facts... With the Freshness of Fiction' for more about this book and others in the 'Read and Wonder' series. We are grateful to Walker Books for their help in using this illustration.
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'You can tell... just by looking what people are really like. You have to peel back the layers.' An enforced stay with his grandfather, not long after his strange, distant grandmother's death, peels back the layers of family skeletons to reveal David's likeness to an uncle, Eric, whose name has never before been mentioned. The unfolding mystery kept me turning the pages fairly willingly and I admired the very realistic, small details of family life. Thoughtful boy readers should be attracted by this one.