Jacqueline Wilson ill. by Nick Sharratt |
Doubleday |
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Oct 2005 |
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Prudence and Grace are home-educated, by a fierce disciplinarian Dad. They are dressed by their wittering Mum, in clothes she runs up on a sewing machine using market remnants. Mum only knows one pattern, ‘demure little-girly dresses with short sleeves and swirly skirts’. |
Watch Out for Sprouts! Poems, pictures, doodles and serious thinking.
Simon Bartram |
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Templar Publishing |
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Oct 2005 |
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Children who have met Bartram’s The Man on the Moon, or Dougal, The Deep Sea Diver, will already know that they are in for a treat with this concoction from the same author. Any parents who haven’t yet introduced their offspring to Bartram’s vivid colours and writing – well, what are you waiting for? Jan Pienkowski (translated by David Walser) Puffin 0141382244 Oct 2005
This is a sumptuous season for fairy tales. Lauren Child’s covetable version of The Princess and the Pea is the sort of book all real princesses will want to hoard beneath their pillows. There is the much less crafted, but fun, Mixed Up Fairy Tales, from Hilary Robinson and Nick Sharratt, which lets children play around with all the familiar components – like the old game of Tops and Tails ‘ so Goldilocks can be bossed around by two horrid stepsisters, then move in with seven dwarfs before being woken by a band of forty thieves. |