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Zizou Corder
Lee Raven: Boy Thief
Puffin (290 pages) 9780141322902
The two authors with one pseudonym who brought us the marvellous 'Lionboy' trilogy have come up with a book with the focal point of - a book! This book speaks and can adapt to being any book at all from the Beano to Shakespeare. A dishonest, unscrupulous writer of books for children plans and plots to obtain the book and plunder it for plots. But there's an unlikely boy hero who is illiterate and so just loves the words of the stories the book tells as he cannot read any for himself. The setting is the year 2046, which gives rise to some fine humorous touches and references to current bestsellers. The story is revealed through a number of voices. Lee Raven is a super creation, and although the focus of the book is the act of reading and enjoying story, it is fast and very engaging which makes the point in itself. A brilliantly original read indeed.