Where's My Darling Daughter?
Mij Kelly , ill. Katharine McEwen
Published by Oxford
32pp, 0 19 272555 6, £4.99 pbk
Poppa Bombola has forgotten where he has put his darling daughter, but the reader knows where she is and we enjoy the visual joke, revealed incrementally in McEwen’s lively illustrations as Poppa searches frantically for her. The charming rhythmical rhyming text is by Mij Kelly, whose Scottish granny told Mij at the age of five that she would be a writer. Like most grannies, ‘her word was the law’ and Mij duly became a writer. JH
Reviewed in BfK No. 155 (November 2005) by Jeff Hynds (JH)
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