Gillian Avery on recent attempts to make children laugh
Gillian Avery, 21 February 1980
The Children’s Book of Comic Verse
edited by Christopher Logue.
Batsford, 160 pp., £3.95, March 1980,0 7134 1528 2 Show More
edited by Christopher Logue.
Batsford, 160 pp., £3.95, March 1980,
The Children’s Book of Funny Verse
edited by Julia Watson.
Faber, 127 pp., £3.95, September 1980,0 571 11467 9 Show More
edited by Julia Watson.
Faber, 127 pp., £3.95, September 1980,
Bagthorpes v. the World
by Helen Cresswell.
Faber, 192 pp., £4.50, September 1980,0 571 11446 6 Show More
by Helen Cresswell.
Faber, 192 pp., £4.50, September 1980,
“... appeals to a child’s sense of the risible – a holocaust that hasn’t been caused by oneself. Helen Cresswell’s Bagthorpe’s v. the World is also meant to make children laugh. This is the fourth in the saga of that dotty family who have many admirers. They are now trying to achieve immortality and a place in the Guinness Book of Records with their ... ”
