The Go-Ahead Gang
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On the front of BfK this month is the cover of Yesterday by Adèle Geras. The artwork is by Carolyn Piggford. This book is one from the 'Teenage Memoirs' series published by Walker (see the article, All Their Yesterdays, in this issue) and Adèle, of course, is the subject of our Authorgraph - see centre-spread. Our thanks to Walker Books for their help in using this illustration.
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The Go-Ahead Gang
Maureen Bradley
Forty-something? Ever bored a group of kids with 'When I was about your age ...'? If you answer yes to both these questions, this one's a must. The fifties world of school caps, short trousers and Saturday morning pictures is well-evoked in these six stories of childhood scrapes and adventures which are each short enough to be read aloud in about five minutes. Boys and girls feature in the gang and the button-holing, conversational, first-person narrative demands to be listened to. I trialled them with a very weak Year 7 class who were held throughout and I'm sure that 'Knapton's Hand', the first story, will soon enter my 'Never-Known-To-Fail' category.