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Advantages: Great hide and seek, lift the flap book.
Disadvantages: None

...'Wibbly Pig is counting, everyone hide!' And so begins the game........ Tiny Pig, Big Pig and all of the other friends scamper off to find the best hiding place. And then Wibbly Pig sets off to find them all: Who's in the shower? Who's under the towel? Who's hiding under the bed? One by one all of the characters are found, all except for Tiny Pig! After searching high and low, they eventually find him as his hat and scarf are peeking out of the ...
...is counting.' ~ The style ~ This is an extremely simple text, ideal for pre-school children who find it easy to join in with the text after the first or second reading. ~ The illustrations ~ Mick Inkpen's talent is very evident in this book. He has given each of the pigs personalities through his expressive drawings. They are set against a white background and are simple but bold and charming. Young children love to play along with the hide ... Read review

Advantages: Children love it
Disadvantages: I have to keep reading it over, and over , and over.....

...love. This idea captures the immagination of children. Just think no little faces streaked with tears because the balloon just went pop. This is a lovely book, just right to read together at bedtime. The full colour drawings are so appealing, and there is only a little reading on each page. Some of the pages fold out, to a BIG round balloon, to a long thin balloon, and the very last is a big long rainbow coloured sausage shaped balloon. This is ...
...with your child. Kipper the dog is there, and he tries to attack the balloon but to no avail. It disappears and comes back square, they go out for a walk and end up in the air! Kipper found the balloon in the garden the day after a birthday party, and at the end it says if you find a soggy old balloon don't throw it away, especially as it's a blue one- as you never know.... I thought the children were getting too old for this one, but they still ... Read review

Advantages: very funny, timeless classic
Disadvantages: when the story ends

The Great Ghost Rescue by Eva Ibbotson was one of my favourite books as a child and I have just been reminded of it by someone in my life and I thought I would just have write a review. The Great Ghost Rescue centres around the main character of Humphrey the Horrible (who is a ghost) and his family. They are all ghosts of one description or another. His mother is a ghost hag, his father is a scottishman with a sword sticking out of his chest, his ...
...can never catch to wash the bloodstains out of her clothes. The family are living within an old castle happily until one day Aunt Hortensia of the family comes and brings them some terrible news that many ghosts around are being forced to move out of their haunts as developers are moving in and making them into swanky new developments and the ghosts dont have anywhere to haunt. The family began to fear the same is going to happen to Craggyford Castle ... Read review

Advantages: Beautifully written with a realistic historical setting
Disadvantages: Heroine is frustrating at times and plot is sometimes unrealistic

The Morning Gift is a beautifully written and sentimental book that any teenage girl would enjoy reading. Eva Ibbotson does not always take the reading ability of her audience into account, however, and this book is a classic example of this. It uses uses very difficult language and some very old-fashioned words which might put some teenage readers off. The plot is also overly saccharine and the heroine was, I found, difficult to like at times and ... Read review

Advantages: Entertaining Read. Lovely Illustrations. Educational.
Disadvantages: Pricey if purchased new

...Kipper the Dog is probably one of his most recognisable and popular creations. The television adaptation of the Kipper series has even won a BAFTA. The Story Kipper the Dog gets a new camera for his Christmas. As the months go by, a photograph is taken of an event each month so at the end of the year he can surprise his trusty sidekick, Tiger the dog, with a lovely reminder of how they spent the past year. However, when December comes, it ...
...page has the text on one side with the main illustration on the opposite page with a small picture (the photograph that Kipper took) on the same side as the text. With just fourteen double pages (28 pages in all) it is a great length for bedtime reading. My Thoughts The book starts the year in January and each of the first twelve double pages has the relevant month emphasised in larger, bolder typeface. This is obviously a handy introduction ... Read review