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B.B. was the pen-name of Denys Watkins Pitchford an author very popular in his day and whose books are celebrated by spedalist collectors. Bill Badger and the Wandering Wind{51) has Bill, his hedgehog friend and a canal boat as well as ample villainy and danger from a gang of wayward cats, it is a cracking good story for younger juniors from Jane Nissen Books and with an introduction from Tony Bradman: £6.99, 978 1 903252 41 3. Frank Cottrell Boyce brought that favourite flying car up-to-date with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again (11) cleverly leaving the original preserved as in this new story it is the car's engine combined with a family campervan which makes for a fresh sparkle of fun and mishaps: Macmillan, £6.99, 978 0 330 54419 1. A matching new edition of the Ian Fleming original Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (64) has appeared simultaneously and both books are enhanced with lively illustrations from Joe Berger: Macmillan, £6.99,978 1 4472 1375 8.
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