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- <title>
- Sep. 18, 1989: Tailspin
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 18, 1989 Torching The Amazon
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 103
- Tailspin
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By J.D. Reed/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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