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BfK No. 141 - July 2003

Cover Story
This issue’s cover illustration is from Terry Deary’s The Thief, the Fool and the Big Fat King, illustrated by Helen Flook, from A & C Black’s ‘Tudor Tales’ series. Terry Deary is discussed by Sue Unstead. Thanks to A & C Black for their help with this July cover.

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Imagine you are a Dolphin

Karen Wallace
 Mike Bostock
(Wayland)
32pp, NON FICTION, 978-0750243179, RRP £5.99, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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Imagine you are a Crocodile

Karen Wallace
 Mike Bostock
(Wayland)
32pp, NON FICTION, 978-0750243186, RRP £5.99, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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Imagine you are a Tiger

Karen Wallace
 Peter Melnyczuk
(Wayland)
32pp, NON FICTION, 978-0750243162, RRP £5.99, Paperback
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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The books in this series encourage young readers or listeners to empathise with the daily life and activities of an adult creature and its young. In each title, habitats are strongly realised in words and pictures, as indeed we would expect from this author and the two illustrators.

The books are for very young children of about age three to five years but, even so, I would have welcomed there being more detail in the main narrative and, perhaps, in notes at the end. Parents and teachers know how profound some of the questions that young children ask can be. To be fair, a number of the pictures have the kind of detail and drama that encourage talk and reflection. In Imagine you are a Crocodile there is an image of the animal rearing from the water to catch a heron in flight. Another beguiling picture - in Imagine you are a Dolphin - shows a shoal of squid, a 'feast deep in the ocean' for the dolphin, lying luminous against the darkness of the ocean. Imagine you are a Tiger communicates well the power of instinctive behaviour - showing, for example, how the playful fights of tiger siblings are a preparation for their survival as successful predators.

Reviewer: 
Margaret Mallett
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