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BfK No. 94 - September 1995

Cover Story
This month's cover features Quentin Blake's illustration for the publication Wondercrump Poetry featured in this issue. Our thanks to Red Fox for their help with this cover.

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Lazy Jack

Val Biro
(Oxford University Press)
978-0192722003, RRP £2.50, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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Another in the series of retold folk tales written and illustrated by Val Biro. These are excellent introductions to the stories young children have inherited from our tradition and should be in every Year 1 or 2 classroom. Here we have the story variously known as 'Epomymandas', 'Silly Billy' or 'Lazy Jack'. Lazy Jack follows his mother's introductions to the letter when bringing home various goods, with highly comical effect. I love telling, rather than reading, my version of this story, just for the pleasure of seeing the children's faces as they gradually get the joke, but this jolly book is the next best thing to telling it yourself. Good, too, for newish readers.

Reviewer: 
Liz Waterland
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