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Gill Moodie Reviews the Latest Miss Behave Book
Miss Behave and the League of the Crystal Ball by Camille LagarrigueFormer primary school teacher Camille Lagarrigue is back with her fourth Miss Behave book for South African children and it’s just as compelling as the previous ones.This time Miss Behave, the good witch, and her two feline familiars, Bart and Blade, must stop their arch-enemies – the picturesquely named Miss Take, Miss Fortune and Miss Spell – from ruining the World Cup.
This must be gratuitous use of the soccer tournament, I hear you mutter, but Miss Behave is a very hip and happening young witch and the idea of her playing in a witches’ soccer league seems fitting. The story is loads of fun and the illustrations are packed with detail and a hidden motif on every page that is the star of the show as far as my five-year- old is concerned.
These are also uniquely South African tales in that they avoid South African stereotypes and have not one ounce of self-consciousness about them. Born from stories that Lagarrigue made up featuring her real-life cats in Grade 1 and 2 classrooms in Johannesburg, the Miss Behave stories concern good and evil in a magical package which just happens to be set in our fair land.
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