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Advantages: funny, charming, a good read!
Disadvantages: left in suspense!

The seventh book to Meg Cabots collection about the Princess who is not ment to be! This is another stunner and a halerious read. Her life becomes full of problems which she herself has created! Princess Mia has a dilemma with her lovely boyfriend Micheal as she tries to impress him by acting like a chilled party girl and has a problem with the money in her school council. Without telling you too much, Grandma as always saves the day an organises ... 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: Colourful, morality tale
Disadvantages: Only ten pages, pricey

...especially fulfilling to read at the end of the day just before my children get into bed. The book centres around a rainbow fish who is very proud of his colourful, bright, shiny scales. These are portrayed in metallic fashion and is as eye-catching as a series of scales on a fish can be. The rainbow fish is approached by a blue fish and is asked if he can have a couple of his scales as they are gorgeous and he, too, would look grand. Without even ...
...unhappy. After several declines, the rainbow fish finds himself without playing partners or friends and approaches the wise octopus for help. The octopus, naturally, asserts that it’s the rainbow fish’s selfishness in not sharing his scales that is leading to a lack of friends. Once again the blue fish returns and this time is granted a scale. Soon more and more fish approach the rainbow fish until he himself only has one scale, but many friends ... Read review

Advantages: Touching story, appreciated by adults and children alike
Disadvantages: Short length of the story.

...Michael Morpurgo, who once held the role Child Laureate was born in 1943, and grew up in wartime London. He attended schools in London, Sussex and Canterbury, one of which was the inspiration for the school about which he wrote in The Butterfly Lion. The Butterfly Lion: This book was wriiten for children in 1996. Morpurgo mentions a number of events which inspired the writing of a story; his memories as a boy who attempted to run away from school; ...
...story about a soldier of the first world war who rescued circus animals in France from death. Plot: Bertie is a young boy who discovers a white lion cub in Africa. Bertie is lonely, and the cub becomes his companion, the two playing together, and as their friendship grows, they become inseparable. However, Bertie is devastated when he is sent away to boarding school, and his parents sell the cub to a circus owner. As Bertie grows up into a young ... Read review

Advantages: it is a very well written book credit to murpurgo
Disadvantages: N/A

The story is set during the Irish potato famine. There is a family called the O' Brien s and they are very poor so their farther sets off to America to find a new life meanwhile back in Ireland sean and annie and their mother is trying to survive while their father builds a farm but their mother is about to die so sean and annie set off to find their father in america and they are told to take the familys golden torc which has been in the family ... Read review