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is by Dagmar Berková for “TheNutcracker” by Hoffmann (1968). One of series of music themed books from the Sixties called “curtain-raisers”. Strange, delicate, gentle sugar-plum illustrations - here one of Clara’s dolls dances with a toy soldier…

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is by Jane Simmons for “Little Fern’s First Winter” (2000). Jane’s sensitive and painterly illustrations are a joy in this story about a rabbit experiencing that shift from Autumn to Winter, & the first snows. No snow in Suffolk yet, but it’s very cold.

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is by Angela Barrett for “Snow White” by Josephine Poole (1991), continuing the festive theme. Barrett offers an exquisitely thoughtful, beautifully imagined fresh view of the age-old tale. Here the prince mourns the dead Snow White…

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