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Advantages: Interesting story with good links to introducing the concept of capacity and weight.
Disadvantages: None

...educational (Mr Archimedes Bath & Who Sank the Boat?) to humorous stories like the Mr McGee series of books. ~ Who sank the boat? ~ I use this book as a simple introduction to weight and balance to the children I teach. Five good friends (cow, donkey, sheep, pig and mouse) decide to go for a row in the boat. "Do you know who sank the boat?" " Was it the cow who almost fell in, when she tilted the boat and made such a din?" The cow gets in first, ...
...the turn of the donkey who doesn't sink the boat but balances her weight! "Was it the pig as fat as butter, who stepped in at the side and caused a great flutter?" At this point most children will be shouting out, "it's the pig!" presuming that her fat bulk will sink the boat! But oh how wrong they are because it isn't her either. So comes the sheep who 'knows where to sit to level the boat and still the boat hasn't sunk.' Could it possibly be ... Read review

Advantages: Simple questions and answer book
Disadvantages: None

What is the sun? This is one of those story books I read in answer to the hundreds of questions asked by young children. We have been looking at springtime and the sun at school (not a lot of sunshine yet but it does tend to go with spring!) and naturally the children asked what the sun was. This book is basically a series of questions asked by a young boy as he is getting into bed and watching the setting sun. The first questions he asks is "What ...
...is a star". This sparks of a whole range of questions from the sun to the moon to the tides, to wind, to winter, to the rain, the flowers and trees and then to the earth The series of questions lead seamlessly on to each other because they are related in some way, and the end is kind of a summary of all the questions and answers the little boy asks. His mum tells him that the earth is our home,and it's a big ball which has the sun, the moon, the ... Read review

Advantages: helps children if they are worried
Disadvantages: could be a little longer

...going to review is called Katie goes to the Hospital. On the front cover there is a blue trim around the edge and the back ground is in yellow the title is in big red letters with a picture of Katie sitting on the hospital bed holding her teddy with a nurse talking to her and her mum next to her. Katie has to go into hospital to have a operation the book explains how Katie doesn't want to go as she is scared it goes threw step by step of what she ...
...to write to much as its only a short story and i will spoil it. The pictures in the book are lovely and the detail is great the child can see clearly what's going on if they cant read and is looking at the book by themselves. I love this book as it helps children realise that its not all that bad to go into hospital and have a operation so if your child is going in to hospital i think this book is a must as it will help them to stop being so worried ... Read review

Advantages: A fantastic series with a total of 3704 pages!!
Disadvantages: Can be a bit to long for younger children

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows was written by J.K Rowling. Joanne Kathleen Rowling on July 31st 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire. She was bought up near Bristol with her parents and younger sister Di until she was 9 years old when they moved to a village called Tutshill near Chepstow in Wales. In 1983 Miss Rowling finished school and went to the University of Exeter to study French. After finishing University she worked for Amnesty ...
...had the inspiration for the Harry potter series. She began writing the first book that very evening. Unfortunately in December 1990 J.K Rowling's mother died, she had been suffering from multiple sclerosis, a disease which makes the immune system attack the central nervous system for almost 10 years before. J.K Rowling then moved to Portugal and married a Portuguese man. In 1993, although her marriage didn't work out, her daughter Jessica Isabel ... Read review

Advantages: everything
Disadvantages: just want more and more

...to live.... well not really. The spooks battle is the fourth books by Joseph Delaney in his exuberantly rich children's series, the Wardstone chronicles. The series follows the life of young Tom Ward who is the seventh son of a seventh son and is sent by his mam and dad to join John Gregory who is an old and experienced spook (a spook is someone who battles the dark e.g. witches and Bogart's) to teach him the trade. As you may have already rightly ...
...force to be reckoned with. The Spooks Battle is the fourth book in this originally simple story yet so superbly written. It is set in the County, (in a BBC interview the author revealed that "In truth, that county is Lancashire") if you would like to read the profile of Joseph Delaney you can copy the link beneath into your web browser and take a gander for yourself. http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2007/07/09/josephdela neyfeature.shtml ... Read review