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Enjoyment of Castles

Advantages: Bright, Colourful, Entertaining, Educational
Disadvantages: Having to read it over and over again

If like me you spent your childhood being dragged around the many castles of our great shores by your parents and are now downing the same thing with your children, then this book for you children is a must have. It is another one of Usborne great flap books showing the inner workings of castles. Since my five year old visited Warwick castle at Easter this book has been reread so many times I'm surprised it's not falling apart; which goes to show ...
...entertaining and educational. It is full of entertainng scenes and over 50 revealing flaps which help to show you what really went on all those years ago. This is a hard back book which has 15 hardboard pages which helps towards is overall durability. It takes you from the very first castles made primarily of wood to castles today or whats left of them. During the journey through this book you learn how knights prepare for jousting tournaments, ...

hammd1974 20.06.2006 · Read full review
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Review of See Inside Castles (Osborne Flap Books) - Katie Daynes, David Hancock

Your inner workings

Advantages: Fun, Fascinating and Factual
Disadvantages: None that I've found

For those of you who have never come across Usborne books here is a little background information about the company. Usborne Publishing in an independent children's publishing company based in the UK. The company has achieved many awards and it's books have been nominated for many more. Peter Usborne founded the company of 30 years ago, and has flourished in many ways since then. It's book list is now translated into over 80 languages, and covers ...
...alike. Many of their books are now internet linked so not only do you enjoy reading the book you get the added bonus of investigating the topic further through the internet links. This particular book has been a big hit with my five year old and many of my friends have said it has been a huge success with their older children. So onto the book itself. The book has been written by Katie Daynes and Colin King, was designed by Laura Parker and the ...

hammd1974 19.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of See Inside Your Body - Katie Daynes, Colin King

First Term At Malory Towers : Give this to your little girls!

Advantages: Very readable, enjoyable, imaginative, contains some sensible & good philosophies
Disadvantages: The modern versions of the books are altered to make them politically correct

...the school, from her very first day as a 13-year-old, through to her last, when she leaves at age 18. I read my first Enid Blyton Malory Towers book when I was aged about 9. We’d had a bring & buy sale at my primary school as an end of term activity, and I managed to cop a paperback edition of the 3rd book in the series for the grand sum of one old halfpenny! Later in the evening when at home and in bed (I was supposed to be asleep), I began to read ...
...favourite has always been the first in the series, which I review below. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darrel Rivers is a forthright, happy-natured, sensible yet rather volatile girl, and we begin the book with her excitedly setting off for her first term at Malory Towers, which is a fee-paying boarding school for girls. As Darrel says a fond goodbye to her mother and seats herself in one of the special carriages provided solely for Malory ...

CelticSoulSister 20.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of First Term at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton

Grin and Bear it!

Advantages: Sturdy board book, great for learning vocabulary and exploring textures
Disadvantages: Full price is expensive but easily picked up for less

My kids have more than enough books at home but there was a sale of old books at the library the other week and I couldn't resist rehoming some poor unwanted books at just 10p each. Amongst my haul was 'That's Not My Bear', part of the classic Usborne series of board books for very young children. For anybody that hasn't come across one of these lovely little books before, each book features a certain animal or item with a particular characteristic ...
...of the books are written by Fiona Watt and illustrated by Rachel Wells with bright clear images of the items in question. The series includes a fast range of topics and in our own collection we have 'That's Not My Train', 'That's Not My Bunny' and 'That's Not My Lion', so the format of this story was very familiar to my little boy. Like all the books, the story actually starts on the front cover, which features a cute koala bear with a nose that ...

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Review of That's Not My Bear - Fiona Watt

'Drawing' on Seasonal Symbols.

Advantages: Stickers.
Disadvantages: The drawings were far too detailed for young children to get pleasing results from!

...of what to draw and how to draw it is helpful but the drawings although initially look quite child-like and simple aren’t that easy for young children to copy from (unless they are particularly artistically gifted!) and are quite obviously done by adults. Although pleased with her efforts my niece sometimes became a little frustrated when she said that hers didn’t look as good as the ones in the book. Obviously praise was given etc but I’m not overly ...
...I have listed below: How to draw…… ~ Princesses and Mermaids ~ Animals ~ Trucks and Tractors ~ Dinosaurs - Final Thoughts - Most Usborne Activities books are a great buy for any adult who is looking for inspiration in fun arts and crafts activities. I was a little disappointed with this one in comparison to others I’ve used and really should be aimed at 8+ year olds, given the level of difficulty of the drawings! Thankfully, I bought this ...

neenn 20.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of How to Draw - Christmas - Fiona Watt