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Garth Nix
One Beastly Beast, Two Aliens, Three Inventors, Four Fantastic Tales
HarperCollins (224 pages) 9780007234097
There's a raised feel to the cover lettering and a large beast-head with a gruffalo look but without the horns. Most pages have pictures and there are indeed four different stories here, each divided into short chapters and the longest around 64 pages. This means that a reader can manage the equivalent of four short books and feel the satisfaction of having coped with the whole of this thicker and heavier one. The subjects are enticing too: Blackbeard - a pirate of course together with a boy named Peter and some rats as crew; that Beastly Beast - a literally bloody one; an inventor who encounters aliens and a sea serpent to finish. All good stuff with humour, fantastic situations and a fine illogical logic to it all.