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BfK No. 113 - November 1998

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from the picture book adaptation of C S Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe illustrated by Christian Birmingham. Thanks to Collins Children’s Books for their help in producing this November cover.

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Fly with the Birds

Richard Edwards
 Satoshi Kitamura
(Oxford University Press)
24pp, POETRY, 978-0199105052, RRP £3.99, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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This unusual picture flap book is narrated in the first person and in rhyming couplets by a small girl who shares her flights of fancy as she dresses, introduces her pets, sits in a traffic jam, shops, picnics, draws a space map, gardens, plays, baths and finally, goes to bed - to dream of course. Illustrated in the artist's distinctively angular style, each double page spread includes a picture dictionary featuring some of the items from the main illustration. When the flap is lifted, it reveals the narrator's imaginings as well as the last line of the rhyme. The expanding or limiting potential of the picture dictionary will depend on the adult with whom the book is shared.

Reviewer: 
Jill Bennett
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