Melanie Brown and the Jar of Sweets
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Cover Story
The photographs on our front cover this month are taken from Round Buildings, Square Buildings & Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish by Philip Isaacson. Hardback (0 86203 447 7) and paperback (0 86203 468 X) are published by Julia MacRae.
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The children in our school think Melanie Brown is wonderful! Written in natural and entertaining language, the book is as much fun for the teacher reading it as for the children listening. Who wouldn't warm to Melanie's declaration to her mother in 'Melanie Brown and the Pet's Service': 'We all have to take a pet to school on Friday or we shall get into dreadful trouble ... so you'll have to buy me a pet.' Or enjoy the time the class went on a walk to the stream and, as a result, Melanie's dad felt that 'in his opinion, Miss Bradley would be grey before she was thirty'.
These stories hit exactly the right note for story time or for fluent young readers and are highly recommended.