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BfK No. 45 - July 1987

Cover Story
The startling illustration on our cover is by John Marriott and is taken from the cover of the paperback edition of The Willow Street Kids (Piccolo, 0 330 29701 5, £1.75). We are grateful to Piccolo for help in using this illustration.

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What-a-Mess has Breakfast

Frank Muir and Joseph Wright
(Picture Corgi)
978-0552524216, RRP £2.25, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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What-a-Mess has Lunch

Frank Muir and Joseph Wright
(Picture Corgi)
978-0552524223, RRP £1.95, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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What-a-Mess has Tea

Frank Muir and Joseph Wright
(Picture Corgi)
978-0552524230, RRP £1.95, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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What-a-Mess has Supper

Frank Muir and Joseph Wright
(Picture Corgi)
978-0552524247, RRP £2.25, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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In these four 'Square Meal' books the unbelievably scruffy Afghan pup gets into all manner of scrapes in his unflagging efforts to appease his hunger. Joseph Wright's visual interpretation of the stories is a good deal more approachable for the child reader than is Frank Muir's somewhat over-complicated narrative: his sentence construction occasionally left this experienced reader gasping for breath. The sub-plot involving various diminutive human and animal characters adds to the visual fun. What-a-Mess is definitely an acquired taste and one which can prove over rich so far as the text is concerned for many would-be young readers.

Reviewer: 
Jill Bennett
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