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BfK No. 19 - March 1983

Cover Book
On our cover this issue we feature The Chicken Book by Garth Williams. (See feature on p. 21 for details).  We are grateful to Patrick Hardy Books for help in using this picture.

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I Din Do Nuttin, and other poems

John Agard
 Susanna Gretz
(Bodley Head Children's Books)
978-0370304595, RRP £5.50, Hardcover
8-10 Junior/Middle
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Twenty-three poems about West Indian children by the Guyanese poet. John Agard. Some poems are in dialect, some have local references - sucking sugar cane, eating snow cones, playing three-hole (a short of marbles). But most are about more universal childhood preoccupations - buying new shoes, birthdays, pets, parents. A lively collection to show that wherever and whoever you are things are different and the same.

Reviewer: 
Pat Triggs
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