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BfK No. 108 - January 1998

Cover Story
This issue’s cover shows titles from Anthony Masters’ new ‘Weird World’ series aimed to grab reluctant readers. Anthony Masters is interviewed by George Hunt. Thanks to Bloomsbury Children’s Books for their help in producing this January cover.

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Two Bears and Joe

Penelope Lively
 Jan Ormerod
(Puffin Books)
32pp, 978-0140555516, RRP £4.99, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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The creation that emerges from two such luminous talents is bound to challenge and Two Bears and Joe is a book that will need a bit of mediating to make it accessible to all children. For my money though it is a 'must' for all young children in this world of instant visual entertainment on tap, where using the imagination is fast becoming an endangered activity for some. This books allows children to share in Joe's fantasy day with two bears that can only be seen by him. Hopefully some of the infants who shared the book with me so uncomprehendingly on the first reading will now try to generate their own fantasies.

Reviewer: 
Judith Sharman
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