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BfK No. 52 - September 1988

Cover Story
The illustrations on our cover are taken from Starting School by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, published by Viking Kestrel (0 670 81688 4, £6.95). We are grateful to Viking Kestrel for help in using these illustrations.

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Mr and Mrs Pig's Evening Out

Mary Rayner
(Macmillan Children's Books)
978-0333461181, RRP £3.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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How lucky children are now! Who could fail to want to read when there are books like this about? This awful warning to parents to vet the person they leave their children with is so enticing, so funny, so hug-yourelf-with-glee-ish that no primary classroom should be without it. Surely Mrs Pig will realise that it is a wolf she has invited in to babysit? Will Mr Pig fit into his smart shirt which Mrs Pig liked him to wear 'because she thought it made him look thinner'? Will Garth be eaten? How will the piglets rescue him? New readers start here. And start here they often do. This large format book with manageable quantities of text to each page and highly predictable natural language is perfect for the nearly independent reader, one of whom responded to the list of the ten piglets' names with a little gasp of effort and then read: 'And then there were ten piglets, They were called ...,' (small pause) 'ten different names.'

Reviewer: 
Liz Waterland
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