The Return of the Antelope

Willis Hall and Mary Hoffman, Illustrated by Faith Jaques
Published by Picture Puffin
0-14-050694-2, £1.95

A gorgeous Picture Puffin this -- a real cameo of Victorian nursery life, beautifully illustrated. Willis Hall wrote the Granada TV series--well worth viewing -- and this book, with Mary Hoffman's text, is based on it. The story of two children who rescue three Lilliputians -- yes Gulliver's Travels yet lives (who says the classics age dead?)--is lively and easily readable by those who have progressed to more elaborate fiction. I've sold all the copies in the school bookshop already, though I have it on good authority that it is the pictures that clinch the sale!

Reviewed in BfK No. 42 (January 1987) by Nigel Spencer (NS)
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