Children's Books > A Children's Books > 15 GBP to 19 GBP

Advantages: Lots of stories that should keep any Thomas fan going for quite a while!
Disadvantages: Big & heavy & if it gets ruined you've lost all of the stories instead of just one.

...in bedtime stories for life! The only problem is that it's not really a book they can look at by themselves (unless they're quite a bit older than my 4 year old, by which time they've probably grown out of Thomas). For that reason ours tends to sit on the shelf and gets forgotton about as I can't keep it down with most of our other kids books, which is on their own book shelf so they can help themselves. It is however a nice book for some bonding ... Read review

Advantages: interesting, exciting,
Disadvantages: books aren't long enough

The Animorphs books just don’t get the attention that they deserve! While they don’t give you the same magical feeling that Harry Potter does, it would be wrong to compare Animorphs to Harry Potter. They are both completely different books, but it would be nice for KA Applegate to have her name in lights for a while. Animorphs is a series of 54 books, which involve 5 children who are given the job of saving the world. The story begins ...
...at night. They see strange lights in the sky, getting closer and closer… As the lights get closer, the children realise that they belong to some sort of spacecraft. A strange creature emerges – an Andalite. He is injured, and says that he doesn’t have enough time to speak. He seems to have accepted that he is going to die – and when Cassie offers to help him, he refuses. He is going to die – and needs to speak to the ... Read review

Advantages: Lovely illustrations, catchy story
Disadvantages: Maybe a bit too long for a younger child

The Princess and The Wizard - another wonderful book by Julia Donaldson. This is another one of my daughter's faves although perhaps the story is a little bit long for her at the moment but she loves the pictures, especially the glittery ones. It's the story of Princess Eliza, who gets captured & whisked away (on her 7th birthday of all days!) by a wicked wizard who likes turning people to stone. Luckily before she is taken away, her fairy godmother ...
...colour and changing her shape'. The wizard isn't impressed and replies 'changing her colour and changing her shape will never help Princess Eliza escape'. So Princess Eliza gets seven chances to escape and each day she changes herself into something new, such as a blue fish, yellow chick, green grasshopper... But the wizard always finds her and takes her back to his castle to do some horrible work for him. On her final chance to escape, Eliza realises ... Read review

Advantages: magical, easy to read
Disadvantages: none

This is the touching story of a young boy called Bertie told by his widowed wife after his death to another young boy called Jack after he finds himself in her garden after running away from boarding school (the same school Bertie went to) Bertie grew up in Africa where met his "Butterfly lion" but had to leave him when he got sent to England to go to boarding school. I don't want to give too much of the story away but i think any children (or ...
...which would be easy as the print is large and there are only 127 pages which contain some non-coloured pictures(by Christian Birmingham), which help illustrate and capture the magic of the story wonderfully. I got made to read it for my Uni course, but i am so glad it was this book as its such a beautiful story and had me actually crying in parts! This is the first Michael Morpurgo book i have read, but i will certainly be reading a few others ... Read review

Advantages: Sweet story of love and family
Disadvantages: None!

...is beautifully written and illustrated. I think this book is popular with children as well as adults because of the fact that the story is universal and recognisable to all. The book tells the story of Billy and his Mum. Billy gets later and later for nursery as he is distracted by playing with his toy rabbit, rather than getting ready to leave. His Mum gets increasingly annoyed with him and when he drops his lunchbox in the rain and it bursts open, ...
...because of it's positive message. I think it would be a great book for PSHE because it explains the importance of telling the important people in our lives how we feel about them. It would be a good book for getting children to talk about their feelings and sharing in circle time how they be more considerate to people both at home and school. I also think this book could be lovely on tape perhaps recorded by important people in a child's life, such ... Read review