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BfK No. 129 - July 2001

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from Jane Hissey’s Old Bear’s All-Together Painting. Jane Hissey writes about her approach to illustration in this issue's Windows into Illustration. Thanks to Hutchinson Children’s Books for their help with this July cover.

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Space Dog and the Space Egg

Vivian French
 Sue Heap
(Hodder Children's Books)
48pp, 978-0340787397, RRP £3.50, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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Space Dog Goes to Planet Purrgo

Vivian French
 Sue Heap
(Hodder Children's Books)
48pp, 978-0340787380, RRP £3.50, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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I had not read any Space Dog books before and my initial reaction was dismissive: they struck me as rather silly and inconsequential, featuring as they do, a spotty 'Space Dog' and his galactic friends and enemies. It was only after reading the books aloud that I began to appreciate the sense of drama (deriving, no doubt, from Vivian French's work in children's theatre). The stories unfold largely through dialogue and though not designed for reading aloud they need that 'voice in the head' which is so characteristic of new solo readers.

Heap's visual interpretations of the likes of Star Rock Four, the Woopers and the tube worms are as playful as the words themselves and are scattered in abundance throughout the 48 pages.

Reviewer: 
Jill Bennett
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