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CHILDREN'S BOOKS / 'King Glutton' - Jindra Capek: Andersen Press, 7.99

Friday 21 August 1992 23:02 BST
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'There was not one morsel in the whole kingdom that the King had not tasted', from King Glutton by Jindra Capek (Andersen Press pounds 7.99). A wicked monarch starves his people to stuff himself, but redemption comes, in graceful flat perspectives, from a poor boy and plain food.

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