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Penny Matthews

Jump, Baby! by Penny Matthews, illustrated by Dominique Falla & Baby Bear Goes to the Park by Lorette Broekstra

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April 2003, no. 250
Virginia Lowe reviews 'Baby Bear Goes to the Park' by Lorette Broekstra, 'Pigs Don’t Fly!' by Jackie French, 'Jump, Baby!' by Penny Matthews, and 'The Dragon Machine' by Helen Ward

Pigs don’t fly, but dragons and kites do, and possums can jump, which is perhaps just as scary if you’re a little one. These four picture books deal with flight, their authors and illustrators using more or less imaginary elements in the process.

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Ruth Starke reviews eight recent children's books

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July–August 2011, no. 333

Linda and Paul McCartney, so the story goes, became vegetarians the moment they looked up from a delicious meal of roast lamb and saw a flock of lambs gambolling in the field beyond their cottage. Young readers of Pamela Freeman’s Lollylegs (Walker Books, $11.95 pb, 64 pp, 9781921529078) might well have a similar reaction, since the connection in Lollylegs between the meal o ...