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BfK No. 127 - March 2001

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is Sharon Creech’s The Wanderer. Sharon Creech is interviewed by Suzanne Manczuk. Our thanks to Macmillan Children’s Books for their help in producing this March cover.

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Flora the Frog

Shirley Isherwood
 Anna C Leplar
(Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)
32pp, 978-0747544791, RRP £9.99, Hardcover
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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When Flora is asked to play the part of a frog in the school play, she is not happy. Her mother enthusiastically makes an amazing frog costume but Flora throws it away, high into a tree, from where the frog haunts her, waving one disconsolate arm. When Flora comes face to face with real frogs in a pond, she realises their beauty, as sparkling, silvery droplets fall from their backs. Her costume is rescued and, with extra spangles stitched on, we are left to believe Flora becomes a happy frog. The pale pastel pictures are softly compassionate throughout, with lots of humorous details. A story to touch the hearts of all mothers, teachers and child performers.

Reviewer: 
Gwynneth Bailey
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