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Advantages: Lovely illustrated stories
Disadvantages: Some books can be pricey

The Kipper story collection is the large colourful paperback book of the moment in our house this week. A great find from our local Ottakers bookshop retailing for £7.99 though you can purchase it from Amazon for £6.99. Having watched the Kipper series on Nick Jnr, both my son and myself fell in love with this rather lovable cute little dog and his adventures. The kipper story collection is written and illustrated by Mick Inkpen and contains four ...
...Hodder children's book. The kipper books are very easy to read and children and parents alike will love reading them. Kipper books come in several formats and aimed at babies pre school ranges. Kippers Story collection is a great book that any child with love and with its simple stories and scenarios which come with a moral to each story, will be a classic read that you will never tire of reading. Kipper himself is a very lovable Brown and White ... Read review

Advantages: well-written; engaging characters
Disadvantages: depressing

From the beginning, this is a sad tale as it follows Jude, a nought who has tried to make himself invulnerable by ceasing to feel or care, and Sephy, a Cross who is struggling to come to terms with her life. She is alone except for her new baby and is generally despised by her community for giving birth to a 'halfer' child: half black, half white. This is a world in which racism dominates, but the twist is that the dominant group is black and the ...
...signifying their lack of importance. This is a sequel to 'Noughts and Crosses', Blackman's previous novel, but could be read without knowledge of the prior book since a newspaper article on page one recaps key events from this story and sets the scene for the violence rage that characterise this novel. It would, however, be worth reading the first novel in order to develop some empathy for the characters, some of whom may otherwise come across as ... Read review