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Advantages: Loads of wonderful things for the creative child!
Disadvantages: None!!!

...her own christmas tree on the understanding she can only decorate it with handmade decorations), and mostly for my own benefit!!!! ~~~THE BOOK~~~ The book is jammed full of handmade cards, decorations, wrapping paper and loads of easy to follow recipes, both for things for the children to keep them occupied and also things that can be made and sent as presents. I feel there are too many to list them all, but i will list one from each section - ...
...Rudolphs red nose and voila!!!! The book suggests that if you make the cards you can make matching gift tags also!! These are sooooo easy to make and kept my daughter quiet for a good hour, and the pride on her face when she gave them out to my parents last christmas geniunely brought a tear to my eyes!!!! ~~~GLITTERING SHAPES~~~ These are even easier!!!! For these tree decorations all you need is a cookie cutter,(if you can get a christmas ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to sing, traditional
Disadvantages: None really

The other morning I had taken my two to school and was starting the hike up "the hill of doom" when I bumped into a few of the other Mums that I know. For some reason, and I am not sure what the reason was, one of us started to sing Ding Dong Merrily on High. Instead of our normal moan about the kids not getting up early or them not going into school nicely, we sung our little hearts out all the way home. By the time we had neared the top of the ...
...to finish at one of the Mums houses for mulled wine and mince pies (confirmed). Now, we are a fairly talented lot, one friend played the trumpet in a band, one has a Dad who is a really good singer, and I, hmmm, well I can play the recorder!!! So we had a plan, a vague one, at least, and I was put in charge of finding the music and words to the old favourite carols, which is where this review starts. ♫ The Usborne Book of Christmas Carols ... Read review

Advantages: Well written, imaginative story
Disadvantages: Fairly unknown

...Ursula Le Guin. I loved the Earthsea trilogy later to become a quartet (now there’s a wizard’s tale! Eat you heart out Harry Potter!) and having gone to school with her son and met her in person I thought I knew most of her books so I was pleasantly surprised to find that this classic from 1969 had slipped me by. ‘The Left Hand Of Darkness’ is not a long book but it is exceptionally well written and plotted. It has the feel of a long book, in a ...
...256 pages. Often described as the first example of feminist Science Fiction it explores the role of gender by setting the story on the planet Gethen were sex is determined but is adopted when needed, potential bisexuality is the norm and fixed sexuality is a perversion. Gethen is a forbidding place to live also known as Winter it is an Ice world were temperatures well below zero are the norm, only part of the planet is habitable the northern and ... Read review

Advantages: Lots of interesting and thoughtful plots to throw you.
Disadvantages: Can get rather slow in the middle.

I have rated this book 4/5 star. It is a deep and meaningful book all about apartheid. It is a reverse of the British apartheid in South Africa, as Sephy and Callum (main characters) live in a world where white people are second best and black people are rich and powerful. This is a very compelling book. It is not to be read if you are looking something light and cheerful. I would recommend this book to anyone in their teens to adults as it is not ... Read review

Advantages: Lovely character
Disadvantages: N/A

Mr Daydream is another Mr Men story from the Mr Men Collection written by Roger Hargreaves, which contains 46 books. Mr Daydream is number 13 in the series and is a pale blue cloud shaped character with a very broad grin. This is the picture of him that is one the front of the book, which is itself small square and white. Mr Daydream's name is then printed above this picture in bold block capitals. On turning the book over you can then see smaller ...
...format as all the other Mr Men stories with writing on the left hand side of the book and colourful pictures on the right. The pictures are extremely bright and cartoon like and so ensure a child's attention is captured throughout the duration of the story but the writing itself although their isn't much of it making the books great for bedtime, it can be rather small. The book itself is a story about Mr Daydream and this is exactly how the story ... Read review