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Purple Class and the Half-Eaten Sweater

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BfK No. 180 - January 2010
BfK 180 January 2010

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This issue’s cover illustration is from Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon. Cressida Cowell is interviewed by Clive Barnes. Thanks to Hodder Children’s Books for their help with this January cover.

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Purple Class and the Half-Eaten Sweater

Sean Taylor
Illustrated by Helen Bate
(Frances Lincoln Children's Books)
112pp, 978-1845079093, RRP £5.99, Paperback
5-8 Infant/Junior
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For any child or adult familiar with the workings of primary schools, these stories will instantly seem familiar – and their long suffering teacher Mr Wellington will be just as familiar too. The pupils of Purple Class manage to learn cricket at the same time as nearly sabotaging a cricket jersey; to play a practical joke while raising money for charity; to enjoy a school journey while also getting a brief fright; and to celebrate their teacher’s birthday with a chocolate cake that almost does not make it... I would imagine that this book is most likely to be at home with children in Years two to four, although its humour can be enjoyed by younger or older children too.

Reviewer: 
Rudolf Loewenstein
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