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BfK No. 86 - May 1994

Cover Story
Our cover this month is taken from Jane Hissey's new book, Ruff, which is published by Hutchinson. We're grateful to them for their help in reproducing this illustration.

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Hiding Out

Elizabeth Laird
(Mammoth)
978-0749716646, RRP £4.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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I can see why this won the Smarties Young Judges Award. It meets a lot of wish fulfilment - parents left to their confusing lives, holing up in a cave, in this case in France, and going feral. When I read the cover blurb, I couldn't imagine how anyone would succeed in making me believe that parents could leave their child behind by mistake - credit to Ms Laird; she did it admirably. As well as the action and tension, there' a thoughtful under-current of how isolated from each other parents and their offspring can be without necessarily recognising it.

Reviewer: 
David Bennett
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