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Book Reviewed by:This article relates to Inside Grandad
Peter Dickinson, born in
1927, has written more than fifty novels for
adults and young readers; and has won both
the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread
Children's Award twice.
He is a tall, elderly, bony, beaky, wrinkled
sort of fellow, with a lot of untidy gray
hair and a weird hooting voice – in fact he
looks and sounds a bit like Gandalf’s crazy
twin, but he's only rather absent-minded,
probably because he’s thinking about
something else. Day-dreaming, mostly.
He was born in the middle of Africa, within
earshot of the Victoria Falls. Baboons
sometimes came into the school
playground....
More about Dickinson, plus an essay
supporting his viewpoint that children
should be allowed to read 'rubbish'.
This article relates to Inside Grandad.
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