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Advantages: Sturdy, bright, ideal for a wide age range
Disadvantages: None!

I am always on the look out for new books for my daughter (and myself of course) and as she is fond of lift the flap books this one caught my eye last time I was browsing Amazon. I had not come across the author before but it was on special offer so I duly ordered it and waited impatiently for it to arrive (my postman must hate me, I must give him a hernia everytime he delivers!). I pulled it out of its packaging and discovered an absolute gem that ...
...flap fairy tale book, containing the stories of the Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk and the Billy Goats Gruff written and illustrated by Nick Sharratt and Stephen Tucker. ***********The Author******************* Nick Sharratt has illustrated the Jacqueline Wilson books and the Daisy series, as well as an impressive number of other books and book covers, so the name and the drawing style may be familiar to anyone who watches Tracey Beaker ... Read review

Advantages: It's a brilliant book for all ages
Disadvantages: The cover could be better

I really liked this book! It kept you interested in it straight away and all the way through. The story line was very easy to follow and a very, very cleaver story line. My teacher read it to my class a few years ago and I enjoyed it so much I want out to the shops, bought it, and read it myself! I liked the book so much I went into town and bought the DVD starring Shia LaBeouf as Stanley Yelnats. I also really like that film, and also helped me ... Read review

Advantages: Well written and beautifully illustrated.
Disadvantages: none

This was my all time favourite book as a child and I have shared this book with both my sons. My brother has also shared this book with his daughter as he could remember how imaginative the book is. It is a fabulous book for encouraging childrens imagination. As a child I loved dreaming of being the King of the Wild Things and of travelling to the far off land. I have used it with my children to encourage their creative ideas. The illustrations are ... Read review

Advantages: Remembering the truth
Disadvantages: Adults have forgotten the truth

...stoopid Tazzy ramblings and onto the good stuff...the review, I have decided to re-write my first ever review, I really did not do the book any justice the first time round, so here goes! ~Gather round children, you might learn something new~ This is undoubtedly the most famous piece of work by the French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and although a children's novel has a lot of underlying, very adult, messages about perception, love, relationships ...
...the younger readers. This little book has been translated into about 160 different languages, sold over 50 million copies, think it was made into an opera a couple of years ago, and has even had it's own anime series (spanning 39 episodes). Saint Exupery's love in life was being a pilot, but he was forced by his fiancée's family to take a desk job in Paris, which he did, but eventually their engagement was called off, and he returned to flying. ... Read review

Advantages: Typical Seussian rhyme and a good story
Disadvantages: none

...just be me And OH, OH, the places we'll go We'll go hither and we'll go fro Over the rainbow and under a smile Making the light year seem less than a mile My own trek is one through theology Determined it feels by biology And compels me upon my wonderful way And never doubting it for a day That this is where I'm called to be This is what I'm charged to see By some much grander holy light Which may someday give me greater sight And until ...
...journey bold So that everyplace will feel like home For everyplace is someone's home Be it brown or be it blue In a castle or a shoe In the up and out the down Journeying through every town And still there will be more places to go Still more ways in which we can grow But may we never outgrow the Seuss For then, dear friends, life's not much use This is a lesser-known Dr. Seuss book, but still a great story and great learning device. This ... Read review