A familiar kind of story – 12-year-old Kasienka thrown into an unfamiliar world, Coventry from Gdansk, because her mother is determined to find her fled father. There’s friendship and false friends, first boyfriend, found father, but it’s complicated. And there’s swimming; Kasienka is friends with water, knows it and understands it. But there’s an unfamiliar…
Deservedly a classic, this is a joy to share with a child or for her to explore by herself. Allan Ahlberg’s jolly rhymes lead us cunningly round a circle, meeting familiar characters of nursery and legend. As we travel there are so many things to find, such enjoyable mischief and muddle along the way, delightfully…
This is one of the few books illustrated by Harold Jones still in print. It was a major undertaking, with nursery rhymes fitted into picture pages throughout. He said of his work, ‘A book is a complete unity. I always plan it from endpaper to endpaper and try to keep the spirit of the first…
