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BfK No. 90 - January 1995

Cover Story
This month's cover features Jean Ure's new book Faces at the Window (see the Jean Ure Authorgraph) with a photograph by Oliver Hunter. The book is published by Corgi Freeway and we are grateful to Transworld Publishers for their help in using this illustration.

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The Three-Legged Cat

Margaret Mahy and Jonathan Allen
(Puffin Books)
978-0140549638, RRP £4.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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Short-sighted Mrs Gimble has a cat called Tom, with a wooden leg, who dreams about prowling across the world, and a bald, wandering swag-man brother, Cyril, who visits just once a year for a cup of tea and a chin wag. Cyril is an embarrassment to her with his travelling and his revolting, moulting Russian hat (which readers will observe looks not unlike the curled-up Tom). On his latest visit, Mrs G all but persuades her brother to give up his wandering - his hat isn't as warm as it used to be. But he decides on just one more trip... A wonderfully whacky tale from that wizard of a storyteller whose imagination is the inspiration for some equally zany illustrations.

Reviewer: 
Jill Bennett
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