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- PEOPLE, Page 103Tailspin
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- By J.D. Reed/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Learning to fly is a breeze compared with writing
- children's books, as fledgling author the Duchess of York is
- discovering this week. One reviewer charges that Budgie, the
- Little Helicopter, the first of her two tales, reinforces "ugly
- stereotypes." The freckle-faced Budgie whirls into a complex
- plot that soars right over the heads of the three-to-six set.
- The action is menacing, featuring swarthy kidnapers who abduct
- Rose, a little blond girl, and hold her for ransom. The chopper
- rotors to the rescue at the end, but maybe Princess Bea's mum
- isn't quite ready for literary flight.
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