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BfK No. 100 - September 1996

Cover Story
The cover illustration for our 100th issue is by Rosemary Wells for Iona Opie’s latest book, My Very First Mother Goose. Iona is the subject of our Authorgraph this month. We are grateful to Walker Books for their help in producing our September cover.

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Badger's Parting Gifts

Susan Varley
(Picture Lions)
978-0006623984, RRP £2.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior, Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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This gifted young artist has made a poignant and special picture book about Badger, who dies, leaving his friends with fond memories and 'gifts' he has left them. There are clever reverberations of The Wind in the Willows and other childhood tales. Is the writer/artist giving the pastoral tradition a crisp contemporary edge? The writing is humane, gentle, poetic; the pictures are integral. The telling is slow and not at all morbid. One not to be missed from a talent whose work could become significant.

Reviewer: 
Colin Mills
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