The Devil in the Dustbin
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Cover Story
This month's cover features an illustration by Victor Ambrus (see Authorgraph) for Gulliver's Travels, retold by James Riordan. It is published in July by Oxford University Press (0 19 279897 9, £9.95) and we are grateful to OUP for their help in using this picture
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The Devil in the Dustbin
Here's a multi-cultural gathering of shades! - a Madras tamarind tree devil, a Polish gnome, a Chinese river spirit and a Trinidadian ball of shape-changing light - all befriended by Miss Pennyworth, an ancient fairy who lives in a castle of dreams and cobwebs that isn't always there. Confused? Such is the nature of this idiosyncratic tale of the everyday life of London (and Madras) shady folk, full of good-humoured wisdom and event. It might make a storytime reader.
