Crazy Bear
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Cover Story
Through star filled skies on Christmas Eve Kay Harker, in a sleigh pulled by eight unicorns and driven by Herne the Hunter, returns in triumph to Tatchester. The illustration on the cover of this issue of BfK is by Faith Jaques and is taken from The Box of Delights, a newly illustrated edition of John Masefield's classic children's book, abridged by Patricia Crampton and published by Heinemann, 0 434 95052 1, £7.95. A paperback edition (without colour plates) is available from Fontana Lion (0 00 572415 9, £1.50). We are grateful to Heinemann and Fontana for help in using this illustration.
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The second half of the Heinemann hardback of the same name, featuring Bruno --- energetic and imaginative bear --- in two stories, Pirate Crazy and Rock and Roll Crazy. Colin McNaughton's inspired blending of cartoon conventions, illustration and text has suffered a little from reduction in paperback; but the appeal of this delightful bear searching for sunken treasure which he himself has inadvertantly sunk and organising his own Rock group should overcome that disadvantage for most readers.