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BfK No. 89 - November 1994

Cover Story
Our cover this month features King Kong, Anthony Browne’s new picture book published by Julie MacRae, to whom we’re most grateful for help in using this illustration.

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Charlie the Champion Liar

Hazel Townson
 Philippe Dupasquier
(Mammoth)
978-0749717209, RRP £3.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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Disaster Bag

Hazel Townson
 David McKee
(Andersen Press Ltd)
978-0862645243, RRP £3.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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Two of Townson's best. Colin Laird's Disaster Bag survival kit is his means of facing the world with any degree of confidence. The bag is actually home to a disaster-causing device which mistakenly finds its way into Moorscale Atomic Energy Establishment so that a worn-out-with-worry Colin finally adopts a little optimism and admits 'You can't go round feeling scared to death all the time.

Likewise in Charlie the Champion Liar, a worn-out-with-lying Charlie is hugely relieved when his lies can cease. It's a credible and sensitively written tale of Charlie's need to impress others, which, of course, he finally does after much self-inflicted pain by telling the truth and saying sorry.

Reviewer: 
Gill Roberts
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