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For many, many years I have received the monthly Red House children's books catalogue.

Flicking through their latest catalogue, I noticed this:

Oh, hang on a sec, did I get those captions the wrong way round? Odd, because they look nothing like each other... except for the shape of their faces, shape and positioning of the mouths and eyes, the way the hair drapes across the face...

Those NOT-illustrated-by-Lauren-Child ballerina books: first published August 2007
The magnificent Charlie and Lola: first published May 2000 (October 2005 with these 'clone' heads)

Comments

[Carolyn]

Crikey! A very poor immitation!

Actually a very ugly immitation.

[Carolyn]

God! Sorry about my spelling

Too early in morning... no actually I'm on holidays and have let all standards slip!

[Colin]

boo hiss.

By the way, I got the kids hooked on Charlie and Lola - not as much as they are hooked on Katie Morag and the Berenstain Bears (urgh), but nonetheless. Although they were a little confused about why anyone would balk at going to school, which they would do year-round if anyone would let them.

[Kirsty]

Not keen on the Berenstain Bears either, but didn't know they'd started making Katie Morag programmes. I've heard one of the stories read by the author in her soft, Scottish accent on Words and Pictures years ago. Any good?
The Katie Morag books are not bad picture books, just not my kind of thing.