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BfK No. 95 - November 1995

Cover Story
The November cover of BfK features Stephen Biesty's Incredible Pop-up Cross-sections. The book is published by Dorling Kindersley and we're grateful for their help in using it as our front cover.

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Sorry for the Slug A Collection of Garden Poetry

 Alan Baker
 Jill Bennett
(Mammoth)
978-0749723347, RRP £2.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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The title is likely to deter the serious gardener, who will not find much in here about the misery of losing your seedlings to the eponymous mollusca, or the shameful joy of slaughtering the culprits by fair means or foul. Composting, slipped discs and weed control are also neglected. Instead we have a slim, largely contemporary, but admirably diverse collection of celebratory verses, visiting all the seasons, and tropical as well as temperate gardens. Evocations of mosquitoes, and of soil inside a sweaty vest, help to balance the lyrical observations of flora and fauna.

Reviewer: 
George Hunt
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