The vagaries of The Times website's link indexing means that tomorrow's Sunday Times selection by Nicolette Jones can be blogged a day early while, if Amanda Craig has a review in today's paper (I don't have my paper copy yet) it can't be located...
The Boy In The Dress by David Walliams, ill. Quentin Blake
His [Walliams] is not the finest writing, and the book has moments of self-indulgent zaniness: two pages of "aaaaaas" convey wailing; three pages of "hahahas" laughter. But it has a light touch and Quentin Blake's illustrations show us the awful teachers and the celebratory moments with apposite joie de vivre. Everyone is on the side of freedom and tolerance by the end, for which the book must be applauded. NICOLETTE JONES
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