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Advantages: Good fun book
Disadvantages: None

Master Track's Train is a lovely little book in the Happy Families Collection. The cover of the book is yellow and has a picture of Mr Track and his children on the engine of a train. Above the picture is the title in green lettering and at the very top of the book is the Happy Families logo in bright coloured rectangles. The back cover of the book is also yellow and has small pictures showing other titles available in the collection. The book starts ...
...Dose the Doctor's Daughter Master Bun the Baker's Boy This book was written by Allan Ahlberg and illustrated by Andre Amstutz. It was published by Puffin Books Limited and has a retail price on the back cover of £3.99. I did not pay this price and managed to pick up a brand new copy from EBay for £1.25. These books are also available on Amazon and Amazon Market Place and have a starting price of 1p. I recommend this book for all new readers as it ... Read review

Advantages: Good easy to read fun book
Disadvantages: None

Mrs Plug the Plumber is another book which is in the Happy Families collection. The cover of the book is yellow and has a picture of Mr and Mrs Plug. The title is above this in blue lettering and at the top is the Happy Families logo in bright coloured rectangles. The back cover of the book is also yellow and has small pictures showing other titles in the collection. The story starts by telling us that whenever there is a plumber needed people would ...
...We are then shown what Mrs Plug carries in her very useful bag. The story then moves on to one night when a lady was having a bath and she got into trouble. A plumber was needed so her neighbours shouted to send for Mrs Plug. Mrs Plug came but Mr Plug did not as he stayed at home to put the baby Plug's to bed. Mrs Plug got on with the job and soon the lady was free from the bath, she gave Mrs Plug a cup of tea and some money then Mrs Plug set of ... Read review

Advantages: Great fun story, easy to read
Disadvantages: None

Miss Dirt the Dustman's Daughter is a title which is in the Happy Families collection of books. The collection has been designed and written especially for beginner readers to encourage independent reading. The front cover of the book is orange and has a picture of a little girl standing leaning on a dustbin. The title is above this in red lettering. Above the title is the Happy Families logo which is in nice bright coloured rectangles. The back ...
...titles available in the collection. At the beginning of the book we are introduced to Daisy Dirt and find out that she is an unusual girl, she was the poorest and richest girl in the whole town, she had lots to wear and nothing to wear, a huge room or her own and a tiny room of her own. She had a little dog and a big dog, a little hamster and a big horse. She ate a big dinner and a very big dinner. All of this is because Daisy lived half of the time ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant story
Disadvantages: NONE

Re-reading my Mr Men and Little Miss collection for the purpose of giving honest reviews to dooyoo has really reinforced my love for this fantastic collection of books. Obviously I knew before re-reading them that the Mr Men and Little Miss stories would always be my favourite books but I never realised how fantastic they were and never really noticed how much both me and my younger have read these books during our childhood. Now this alone should ...
...with the Mr Men and Little Miss characters as much as me. The Mr Men series began in 1971 and the Little Miss series in 1981. Within a very short time-period the books were well sought after and now the original collection consists of 76 books, the Little Miss collection making up 33 of these. There is also a new collection, which consists of 24 books, 12 Mr Men and 12 Little Miss. Little Miss Sunshine is number 4 in the original collection and ... Read review

Advantages: Great story
Disadvantages: Maybe a little scary for younger readers

The Dark Behind the Curtain is a fantastic book for 8 - 15 year olds written by Gillian Cross and published in 1982. I'm not on the whole a fan of horror / thriller style novels but got this book a few years ago in a Gillian Cross set and so never being the sort of person to simply ignore a book sat on my bookshelf I duly picked it up and delved in. The story itself is quite dark in places as the book tells the tale of Jackus who hates being in ...
...explained begin to occur and the lines between acting and reality and soon sufficiently blurred that not only Jackus but those around him have trouble realise when those on stage are acting and when they are not. Things however get progressively worse and Jackus' fear builds and builds. To make matter so much worse a disaster seems to be looming over the whole production and no one else but Jackus seems to be able to see it. As fear grips him however ... Read review