Alison Binney

family In a marketplace sinking beneath the weight of words, it behoves the perceptive writer new to the children’s book landscape to reach beyond conventional attributes to find something special in the making of connections. And I don’t mean investment in marketing strategies, although lavish promotion is clearly one key to trajectory. Yasmine Anane’s new venture, The Family Tree, is calibrated to reinforce anticipation in, especially, young kids.

arts Brass For us, there were journeys of fine weather between the walled towns. But now, it rains inside our trains. Once, our days and nights tapped out hot rhythms as we danced mambas drenched in salted sweat – dipped our dreams with blistered fingers – raised life’s hopes to the turncoat wind. In teatime kitchens, our chips drowned in gravy and nothing of comfort’s good came calling. These streets have been forsaken by forensics – the small price of power’s broken bicycle.