26 APRIL 1986, page 36

Recent Children's Books

John Horder I for one certainly won't read Roald Dahl's latest masterpiece, Dirty Beasts, (Puffin, £2.50) over and over again. Yet it has its charms. Roald Dahl is like some......

Mr Grouser And The Goblins

Eric Christiansen THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE by Oliver Rackham J. M. Dent, £16.95 F or a long time, most Britons either made a living out of the countryside or avoided it.......