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Sat 11 Nov 2009Gems of gloom and global warming
PRE-TEEN: AGE 9-12: PITY THE PRE-TEENS. They will have to clean up the fine economic mess the country is in and sort out global warming and resource shortages.
To make matters worse – in order to make them better – they have to read about all this misery. Partly to equip them for what lies ahead; partly – can you credit? – for enjoyment. The least we owe them is a decent fiction otherworld, but too often they are fobbed off with trivia. Not in this book-feast, though.
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