The Mink War
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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 Mink War
Andrew Davidson
This narrative poem, Gene Kemp's first, is told in 17 sections of varying lengths illustrated by Andrew Davidson's lively woodcuts, full of their own surprises if studied hard enough. The story of released mink seeking to take over Wistman's Wood by violence is told in poetry that combines vivid word pictures with evocative, resonant language and creates tiny, memorable cameo characters. With a right-minded group it would make a book well worth class-sharing.