Flower Gardens - Penelope Hobhouse

Advantages: Great for fans of the show, nice colourful pictures
Disadvantages: None

...Anyone with children will not have been able to ignore the ever popular TV show called In the Night Garden. As with all children's shows the merchandise has been sold in huge amounts, my boys have also wanted all of it. The TV show has produced some very nice books. This one is called Upsy Daisy, Ooh, Pretty Flowers. The book is a hard covered book and has a picture of Upsy Daisy on it standing in front of a pile of flowers, there is a pink shape in the top right hand corner with the title in purple lettering. The back cover of the book is blue and shows the scene of Igglepiggle in his boat on the ocean which can been seen at the beginning and end of the TV show. The book starts with Igglepiggle and Upsy Daisy looking at the flowers in the garden, they say hello to each other. As they are looking at the flowers the Ninky Nonk... Read review

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Advantages: Very well written - fantastic gripping storyline
Disadvantages: dragged a tiny bit in the middle

...****Book Synopsis*** Flowers in the wind centres around the children of Dollanganger family - 4 children Chris 15 Cathy 12 Cory and Carrie 4. The book starts off with the most perfect idealistic family - the family everybody wants. The mother who stays at home and looks after the children - she is naturally beautifuly in every way and the father who adores the ground his family walk on. Until one failthful day. The mother prepares a party in preperation for the fathers return only to be greeted by two police officers. The father is dead, and they are now in financial ruin having not prepared for either of them to die at such a young age. The mother informs the children of their situation and also that they are going to live with their grandparents who up to now the children have been led to believe were dead. The mother... Read review

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Advantages: Wonderful look at the human psyche through her story
Disadvantages: The era and style might not appeal to everyone

...Flowers for the Judge - Margery Allingham. I was brought up with books of all descriptions, not least Margery Allingham and the Campion series. A brief synopsis of the book. A scandal hits a publishing house called Barnabas. One of the directors of this sober publishing house is found dead in the strong room! We discover his wife was having an affair and naturally suspicion falls on her lover, who also happens to be the junior partner in the firm. As Mike Wedgewood goes to trail for murder, Campion needs to unravel a number of different mysteries to uncover the truth. They range from an unpublished comedy, to the disappearance of another director of the firm some 20 years earlier. About Allingham and her writing. Allingham was born in 1904, and her father was an established author in his own right (H. J. Allingham... Read review

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