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BfK No. 222 - January 2017
BfK 222 January 2017

This issue’s cover illustration is from Margot and Me by Juno Dawson. Thanks to Hot Key Books for their help with this January cover.
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The Amazing Adventures of Freddie Whitemouse

Elizabeth Jane Howard
 Bethan Woollvin
(Mantle)
144pp, 978-1447293453, RRP £9.99, Hardcover
8-10 Junior/Middle
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Freddie is a young mouse - but he doesn't want to be a mouse. So when he meets a sorcerer - a toad - he leaps at the chance to become something else for a week. How will he fare being a tiger? A dog?

The theme of wanting to be something else is a familiar one, often explored in picture books. Here Elizabeth Jane Howard has written a more extended version that would be ideal as that longer bedtime story. It has an old-fashioned air, and there is certainly a message to be learnt. However, Howard does not treat the situation as a comedy; when Freddie becomes a tiger, he is indeed a real tiger. Nor does she see Freddie's situation as black or white; there are great attractions to being a dog. But all turns out for the best. An enjoyable piece of whimsy from the pen of a master.

Reviewer: 
Ferelith Hordon
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