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We're outdoors with a gran, and indoors with a computer-fixated witch. Read Alison Boyle's round-up this month... A Walk with Grannie

A Walk with Grannie

by Mairi Hedderwick

(David Fickling, 4.99)

Children's irrepressible appetite for adventure is expressed through the character of Kirsty, who when re-peating all of the familiar routes around her home, ma-nages to see new things each time.

I like the portrayal of the interconnecting cycles of these ordinary lives: Kirsty going out with gran then coming back with gran who's tired, then Kirsty setting off on a similar (but it won't ever be the same) route with her mummy, daddy and baby sister. And here the pictures give clues to the congruence. Look for a lovely sprig of yellow flowers that Kirsty and her gran collected earlier, now stored by daddy at the back of baby's carrypack.

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