It's Not a Runner Bean (Dispatches from a Slightly Successful Comedian) - Mark Steel

Advantages: Teaches children the days of the week. Excellent illustrations.
Disadvantages: No real plot.

...The task was to discuss and introduce Nursery children to the days of the week so I had no problems about choosing a book to introduce the topic to the children in a fun way. 'Today is Monday' by Eric Carle is a must for teaching children the days of the week.............. ********************************************************************** What is it about? ********************************************************************** It has no real story line. Each double page introduces an animal eating a food on each day of the week: 'Today is Monday, Monday runner beans' 'Tuesday, spaghetti, Monday runner beans' 'Wednesday, Zoooop, Tuesday spaghetti, Monday runner beans' And so on until the final drawing shows children wolfing down the various foods as the animals look down from paintings on the wall. 'All you hungry children come... Read review

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Advantages: Funny in parts, an easy read, entertaining in some ways.
Disadvantages: Appears rushed, a bit of a let down, stick to the day job.

... Background This book was one of my husband's birthday requests back in October which got missed. Everybody thought someone else had bought this and consequently nobody did. Then, come post-Christmas, he ended up with two copies. Such is life I guess. So whilst he has been reading one copy I have been reading the other. No doubt he will be flogging one copy eventually. If anyone hasn't heard of Peter Kay I will elaborate slightly. Peter Kay Peter Kay is a thirty something, chubby comedian from Bolton, Lancashire. He was born and brought up in Bolton , where he still lives today. As with a lot of comedians he went through his young years trying to be the school funny man, entertainer and general class clown. He would also try to entertain his family at home... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent Story kept me Enthralled for a week or so!
Disadvantages: Story line explained to early in the Book...

...I Like This Guy... Jack Reacher ... The Lone crusader so to speak... He has no job, no car, no house, no middle name... The man barely exists... but... He still managed to take on and successfully defeat a bunch of upper class gun runners and one of his arch enemies from the past all in a couple of weeks... This book has a good storyline that is plausible and slightly different as usual from Child, however, the fact that the story was explained away so early in the book was slightly disappointing. We all thought that Reacher had finally took the law into his own hands and shot a cop and then we suddenly find out why, I believe expanding further on Reacher's Wild side would have been good, but none the less, this book is still great as the quickly changing plot always keeps you on your toes. Unfortunately, toward the end the plot... Read review

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