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BfK No. 95 - November 1995

Cover Story
The November cover of BfK features Stephen Biesty's Incredible Pop-up Cross-sections. The book is published by Dorling Kindersley and we're grateful for their help in using it as our front cover.

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Charlie on the Spot

Sue Welford
(Oxford University Press)
978-0192716767, RRP £5.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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It's hard having a boyfriend who's more interested in football than you, a politically correct, green, feminist, pregnant mother with a toy-boy and real dad whose idea of housework is to change TV channels. 14-year-old Charlie's dearest wish is to become an actress and she thinks her big chance has come when her drama teacher, Sonia Scissor Hands (of the long nails) is casting the school play, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'. Charlie's joy is decidedly short-lived as her mum explodes - 'A story about a girl who devotes herself to seven small persons, does their housework and cooking while they go off to some paid employment every day and then swaps them for some stupid prince who sexually harasses her in the woods...'Mother takes charge, rewrites the whole thing and 'Snow White and the Seven Small Persons' is eventually performed to triumphant applause, a rampage of pensioners and a baby being born in the midst of the mayhem. Hilarious chaos!

Reviewer: 
Val Bierman
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