The Surprise in the Wardrobe
Text by Val Willis
Pictures by John Shelley
(Andre Deutsch London,
Farrar Straus Giroux New York 1990)

In the sequel to The Secret in the Matchbox Bobby Bell takes a witch to school with resulting chaos in the dinner hall.
As in the previous work I continued the pattern of detailed borders, though I was no longer limited by all the action occuring in a single room.


"Alive with detail and action, Shelley's colorful illustrations are
surrounded by borders in which the figures cavort in vignettes of their own.
An adventure that richly repays close scrutiny" - Publishers Weekly

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