A Fine Summer Knight
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Cover Story
This issue's cover is a photograph of Anne Frank whose diary is discussed by Michael Rosen fifty years after its first publication. Following the arrest of the Frank family and their companions, the secret annex in Amsterdam where they had been in hiding was locked up and everybody forbidden to enter it, since Jewish possessions became Nazi property and were carted away. Before this happened, the young woman, Miep Gies, who had provided those in hiding with food and who had a second key to the annex, risked herself once more by entering it. Miep retrieved Anne's diary from the devastation together with the Frank family photograph album.
Thanks to Penguin Children's Books for help in reproducing this cover.
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A Fine Summer Knight
Bob Harvey
Grace has a glimpse through a telescope of what seemed like a knight on his charger, on the hill beyond the housing estate. For her own safety she is not allowed to leave the confines of the local streets, largely ignored by the adults of her family who restore old machines and concentrate on the staging of the annual steam rally. The book enacts a whole series of encounters and relationships: Grace escapes and finds her knight (real but modern, a member of a re-enactment society) and another lonely girl of her own age; their needs connect too and the knight rides to the rescue of Grace's father's Steam Rally. So many connections - of past and present; of people sharing enthusiasms and eccentricities across class divides. A warm celebration of the power of people and words which exceeds the ordinary.