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Simon's Revenge; Don't Do It, Dani!; Shut up, Mickey!

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BfK No. 91 - March 1995

Cover Story
Our front cover this month features an illutration by Mark Longworth for Gillian Cross's new paperback, The Revenge of the Demon Headmaster. Puffin publish this book in April 1995 (see the Gillian Cross Authorgraph for full details) and we are grateful to them for their help in using this illustration.

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Simon's Revenge

Margaret Ryan
 Alan Snow
(Collins)
978-0006748731, RRP £2.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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Don't Do It, Dani!

Margaret Ryan
 Alan Snow
(Young Lions)
978-0006748748, RRP £2.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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Shut up, Mickey!

Margaret Ryan
 Alan Snow
(Young Lions)
978-0006748755, RRP £2.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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Three books for older, slower readers who enjoy lively stories in good, clear print with short, sharp chapters. All three are about entertaining characters who manage to get things done by force of personality. Simon, who loves to sleep, gets his quiet life by sabotaging the school camp, Mickey rescues the old folks' home from the road scheme by his skill in talking and Dani, who can't resist a dare, saves the stolen cash box with the help of a compost heap. Fresh, entertaining and realistic, these books will be welcome in any Junior classroom.

Incidentally, Dani is also distinguished by being the only female main character, apart from Mog and some very minor mums, in the ten books I've reviewed for this issue. This seems to me to be a seriously worrying fact.

Reviewer: 
Liz Waterland
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