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Competition

‘Your guts will form a stinky pool’: Roald Dahl explains Covid-19 to children

20 June 2020

9:00 AM

20 June 2020

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3153 you were invited to recruit a well-known children’s writer to explain Covid-19 to their young audience.

Designer Jim Malloy’s reimagining of Dr Seuss titles for the coronavirus age — Oh, the Places You Won’t Go!; Docs in Smocks — gave me the idea for this challenge and though I had high hopes for Seuss-inspired submissions none quite hit the mark.

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