Something Big has been here
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The illustration (by George Smith) on our front cover this month is taken from Pete Johnson's Everything Changes (see the Pete Johnson Authorgraph for details). We are grateful to Reed Books for their help in using this cover.
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Something Big has been here
James Stevenson
There are a lot of very commendable and funny poetry books on the shelves and although this one hasn't got the 200 poems the back cover says it has (there are 100 - I counted them all) it's well worthy of shelf-space. 'An early worm got out of bed' conjured up a glorious picture of an extrovert worm with an obvious talent for disguise. To be honest it hardly needed illustration underneath. 'I am Wunk' offers further fun ways of approaching alliteration. My all time favourites were 'Benita Beane' and 'The Fuddies', not related! These two take the commonplace expressions we all use every day and give a whole new meaning to them. Truly playing with language.
