Max
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On our cover this issue we feature an illustration by Charles Keeping from Beowulf (OUP, 0 19 279770 0, £4.50), a new picture book version for 9-13s of the Anglo-Saxon hero tale. The story is retold by Kevin Crossley-Holland. We are most grateful to Oxford University Press for their help in using this illustration.
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Baseball player Max discovers a new way to warm up for his Saturday morning game: he joins his sister's ballet class where he stretches, springs and leaps- the ideal way to keep in trim for those home runs. Both present tense narrative and black and white illustrations are used to great effect - the latter creating something of the illusion that the reader is watching a film sequence - by an American artist whose talents have yet to be widely appreciated over here. This paperback edition should help, it's a real joy.