Lucy and Tom's Christmas
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Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is from a new book of nursery rhymes illustrated by Charlotte Voake - Over the Moon published by Walker Books, 0 7445 0337 X, £6.95. We are grateful to Walker Books for help in using this illustration.
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Lucy and Tom's Christmas
Like The Nativity Play, Lucy and Tom's Christmas is very much of today but with all the warmth and traditional patterns of the ideal family Christmas. There's a lot of love and friendship in Shirley Hughes' beautifully observed pictures which exactly capture the way people are. Look at the superb sequence of drawings of the baby more interested in the wrapping paper than the present, or at Tom, leaning back secure and calm again between Grandpa's legs; the two lovingly entwined figures in Shirley Hughes' drawing express far more than words.
