The Trouble with Mum
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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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'The trouble with mum is the hats she wears ...' but that's far from the truth. Babette Cole's zany pictures show us mum for what she is --- a real live witch. Her antics make her anything but liked by the other parents but, as you would suppose, both she and her son are highly popular with the other kids at his new school. Hugely enjoyable and what makes it the more so is that from the short text alone you would never guess the trouble with mum.