The Frog and the Fly ¦ The Frog and the Fly
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Cover Story
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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A Dog Called Mischief
The Frog and the Fly
Two additions to what we have come to think of as the Brian Wildsmith series by artist Leslie Wood. Very short, repetitive, easy-to-read text filled out into story by the pictures. A Dog Called Mischief (my favourite) invites reader participation as Mischief in traditional storybook dog fashion steals sausages, pie and chicken in turn from the butcher and hides them for the reader to find in the pictures. At the end he's forgotten himself and wonders where he put them. In the other, fly and frog meet, frog catches and swallows fly, fly tickles frog, fly escapes.