Fred & Bixby Speckles ¦ Fred & Bixby Fred feels fed up ¦ Fred & Bixby Spoilsports ¦ Fred & Bixby - Who do you think you are?
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Cover Story
On our cover this issue we feature an illustration by Charles Keeping from Beowulf (OUP, 0 19 279770 0, £4.50), a new picture book version for 9-13s of the Anglo-Saxon hero tale. The story is retold by Kevin Crossley-Holland. We are most grateful to Oxford University Press for their help in using this illustration.
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Simon Stern
Fred & Bixby Fred feels fed up
Simon Stern
Fred & Bixby Spoilsports
Simon Stern
Fred & Bixby - Who do you think you are?
Simon Stern
Stories of a friendship between two somewhat unlikely creatures: Bixby, a frisky fly, and Fred (short for Frederika), a feathery hen. These small books, just 16 pages long, are attractively packaged and their appeal lies mainly in Simon Stern's lively and amusing full colour illustrations; these provide the sparkle that is lacking in the text. And why. on why use the present tense? Young readers do not find it easier to cope with in stories of this length.