Granny's magic garden
“In Granny’s Garden.” by Sarah Harrison with illustra- / tions by Mike Wilks, published b'v Jonathan Cape, Ltd. (1980). ' ■ This Granny does'not have a quaint old-world garden of-sweet-smelling: flowers as one might expect. It is a magic wilderness inhabited by' prehistoric monsters: and e wild animals. While Granny sits' indoors/with her 'pot plants a ' boy clambers ; through ■ tangled vines and sees animals,: among trees. ' . ' ■ Written in verse the/storyc tells of his meeting with a talking brontosaurus, and the bold bright pictures niake the reader believe it really happened. “The Beast In The Bath Tub,” by Kathleen Stevens, with pictures by Ray Bowler, published by Childerset Pty, Ltd, Australia. (1980.) Nobody believed Lewis when he said-that there was a beast in the bath tub. He was told to have his bath and go to bed, beast or no beast.
It was a tight squeeze for a boy and a large' animal but they did not mind. The beast even ' washed the back of Lewis’s' 7 neck. When Father Swept .up. to say goodnight he” laughed about the story of/ the beast in the bath tub. By this time it had gone. It-was under'Lewis’s bed, but no-, body bdthered to: look". :
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