Advantages: High adenture, much derring-do, real horror, and at the core of it - Repairman Jack! Disadvantages: Where?
...'The Tomb', by F. Paul Wilson, is the first novel in a sequence featuring the character of Repairman Jack, a man who fixes things for people. Not cars or refrigerators, but situations. A man with, as far as the US Government is concerned, no identity, Jack lives outside the rules and justifications society wraps most of us in. A final solution when trouble brews, he lives well helping others, a one man A-team with attitude.
Lately though, things have not been going too well for Jack. There was his lover Gina, a woman with whom he had hoped to grow a future until she discovered his cache of weapons and discovered what he really did for a living. Then there is his latest case, in which he is charged with recovering a necklace that carries with it an ancient curse that may just unleash a horde of Bengali demons. Jack might be used...
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Advantages: beautifully written, beautifully illustrated Disadvantages: Longer than your average picture book
...Author: GinaWilson
Illustrator: P J Lynch
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Date of Publish: October 2001
Age suitability: 3-6 years
Number of Pages: 38
Availability: Amazon, The Book People, Waterstones, WHSmith and any reputable bookstore
RRP Price: £10.99
Amazon Price: £7.25
***Plot Summary***
Ignis is a child dragon who can't find his flame no matter how hard he huffs and puffs. Desperate to be recognised as a true brave and strong dragon, he sets off promising not to return to his family and home until he has found his fire. Along the way he makes new friends who help him to discover who he really is, none more important than Cara, a young girl staying with her Gran for the holidays who keeps the garden gate locked in fear of monsters. The two become fast friends and Ignis stays with her for a week telling stories and playing games...
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Advantages: A funny, well-written and gripping story Disadvantages: Mums might find it harrowing even if their children don't!
...and relives buried memories. There are many surprises and some memorable characters like Gina, juvenile delinquent turned social worker, and the irrepressible Tanya whom fans will remember from Wilson's earlier title 'Bad Girls'.
The author has an extraordinary ability to connect with children and convey a world seen through young eyes. Her distinctive first person style, always written in the present tense, gives her protagonist a real character and makes the reader share her feelings.
With themes including abuse, neglect, cruelty and suicide, this may seem like strong stuff to give to children. But chances are they will take it in their stride and parents will be the ones most affected by April's unhappy past. Nobody can touch Jacqueline Wilson for taking the most awful, tragic or terrifying things that can happen to a child and dealing...
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