A Gift of Squares
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The illustrations on our cover are taken from Starting School by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, published by Viking Kestrel (0 670 81688 4, £6.95). We are grateful to Viking Kestrel for help in using these illustrations.
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The setting is Australian, the feelings universal, Young Emma is suddenly faced with a new home far from her English friends -- 'her' family as she sees them rather than those Australian relations, her grandparents and aunts and uncles. Her loneliness is almost overwhelming until she suggests making a friendship blanket for their teacher who is returning to England: the ideal present and a means to ending Emma's loneliness. A warm, feeling-centred short story.
