A Step in the Wrong Direction
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The illustration on the cover of this issue of Books for Keeps shows the arrival of King Sahure's funeral procession at the pyramid at Abusir around 2473 BC. Reconstructed from archaeological evidence, this illustration by David Salariya and Shirley Willis is taken from Ancient Egypt by Rosalie and Antony E. David, published by Kingfisher in the History as Evidence series (0 86272 091 5, £3.95). We are grateful to Kingfisher for help in using this illustration. (See Information Please, pages 20-21)
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More anarchy from Colin West in the form of zany poems and even zanier pictures. We've all met a 'nasty Normal Nosher', without doubt 'the horriblest boy I know of', but whether we could describe him as gruesomely as West is debatable. The collection abounds with kid-appeal lunacy, ranging from the eulogy to schoolmeals, 'Eat your food up, Artie', to the Falklands hymn, 'A Penguin's life'. Special favourites are 'Trevor is ever so' and the pathos of 'In monster town'. But get it and find your own favourites. What Milligan started, West has extended to his own art form. Even explaining to us dullards that 'a poet spends his hours/sat in sofas sniffing flowers/and writing rhymes as silly as can be.'