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BfK No. 119 - November 1999

Cover Story
This issue's cover is from Patrick Benson's new picture book, The Sea-Thing Child by Russell Hoban. Patrick Benson is interviewed by Joanna Carey. Thanks to Walker Books for their help in producing this November cover.

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Invisible!

Robert Swindells
(Doubleday Children's Books)
208pp, 978-0385408554, RRP £10.99, Hardcover
8-10 Junior/Middle
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This is an old fashioned barnstorming yarn in typical Swindells' style: an everyday setting in which fantastic events lead to a set of vigorously paced adventures culminating in a grand cliff hanging finale. Here the action is triggered off by a New Age traveller child (Rosie Walk, who has a friend called Peter Rabbit and parents called Mummy and Daddy Bear) sharing the secret of acquiring invisibility with a group of schoolfriends. At first this gift promises merely fresh scope for mischief, but the children soon become embroiled in the activities of a local criminal who also happens to be the school bully's dad. The climax involves a confrontation in the darkness of an old ice house, with a dashing young rock star riding to the rescue. In short, pure hokum, but spiced with sufficient panache to make you and your reluctant readers want to keep turning the pages.

Reviewer: 
George Hunt
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