PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Author: Geraldine McCaugrean is an established author for all age groups. Geraldine has been awarded many prizes for her writing, including the Whitbread Children's Book Award, the Library Association Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Award and the Blue Peter Book Award. Geraldine has also published a number of retellings of traditional stories. Geraldine has a young daughter. A Pilgrim's Progress is the Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award. Illustrator: Jason Cockcroft is a talented illustrator of children's books. He has collaborated with many established authors such as Helen Cresswell and Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrating Sophie and the Seawolf and Never Let Go respectively.
This is a beautiful book, with pictures just as they should be to convey the idea behind the allegory, without making it too moralistic and stodgy. For after all Pilgrim's Progress must have a basic human drama to have held its own through the successive generations since its first appearance. This text, retold and shortened by Mary Godolphin, successfully steers away from the prosy long-windedness that dates it, and presents the essential story for today's children. (Kirkus Reviews)
