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BfK No. 137 - November 2002

Cover Story
This issue's cover illustration is from Lian Hearn's Across the Nightingale Floor which is discussed by Clive Barnes. Thanks to Pan Macmillan for their help with this November cover.

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Little Old Mrs Pepperpot / Mrs Pepperpot Again

Alf Prøysen
 Penelope Keith
(BBC Audiobooks Ltd)
3 hrs 25 mins, unabridged, AUDIO BOOK, 978-0754071631, RRP £11.23, Audio Cassette
5-8 Infant/Junior
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A classic of the early 1960s, the stories of Little Old Mrs Pepperpot are quite charming but quickly begin to pall when listened to in a single sitting. Mrs Pepperpot is a perfectly normal person but she has a secret: sometimes she wakes up no bigger than a pepperpot. What happens then is certainly far from normal and Mrs Pepperpot's adventures as an object small enough to go in her husband's pocket are relatively entertaining. Alas, bossy little Mrs Pepperpot herself is not a very entertaining character and the fact that she has no control over the moments when she can change makes the magic of her transformation disappointingly arbitrary. Penelope Keith gets the best possible out of the stories: she doesn't labour the wit allowing the listener to decide for themselves whether what happens to Mrs Pepperpot is funny or not.

Reviewer: 
Julia Eccleshare
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