Feet and other stories
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Cover Story
On the cover of this issue we feature a selection of illustrations from the Walker Books List. Can you identify the artists? (Answers below). We are grateful for the help from Walker Books in using this material.
1. Helen Oxenbury (First Picture Books).
2. Shirley Hughes (Nursery Collection).
3. John Burningham (First Words).
4. Patrick Benson (William Mayne's Hob Stories).
5. Kenneth Lilly (Large as Life).
6. Nicola Bayley (Copycats).
7. Philippe Dupasquier (Little Robert).
8. E. J. Taylor (Biscuits, Buttons and Pickles).
9. Jan Ormerod (Baby Books).
10. Colin McNaughton (Allan Ahlberg's Red Nose Readers).
11. Helen Craig (Susie and Alfred).
12. Peter Cross (David Lloyd's Dinosaur Days).
Titles are of the series, not individual books.
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Feet and other stories
Sophisticated, witty beautifully crafted stories very much for older readers. Unusual and attractive type-setting and fine Bert Kitchen illustrations. Most of the eight stories are to do with seeing through people (or not) - complex patterns of lack of understanding, deception, manipulation, realisation, explanation. But also, in most of them, you are not quite sure what has happened by the end and nor are the main characters. On the surface, all seems clear. If the story is a mirror, it isn't misted; but mirror reflections are reversed and anyway, what's behind the mirror ...? I don't want to spoil any of the book by revealing what happens I'll just give three of the titles - which themselves play games: - I Was Adored Once Too; Mrs Tulkinghorne's First Symphony; Still Life: Remote Control. This book you can't do without. Give it to Sixth Formers as well as Fourth and Fifth. I hope lots of adults will have a chance to read it too.