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Ignore historical reasons for dinosaurs dying out - this is fun!
Review of Dinosaurs Love Underpants - Claire Freedman by
cha97michelle
Advantages: rhyme is so well done, lots of humour, fantastic images
Disadvantages: Dinosaur names are tricky for early readers to tackle independently.
...book, so when we saw Dinosaurs love Underpa ...
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22.04.2013 09:55
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How much do you love underpants?
Review of Dinosaurs Love Underpants - Claire Freedman by
emmad5689
Advantages: Bright pictures, funny story
Disadvantages: None
My daughter brings a book home from school every week and over the half term we have been reading this book literally everyday!
The book is written by Claire Freedman who seems to write alot of books about underpants and illustrated by Ben Cort, the RRP ...
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18.03.2013 16:26
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More Viking invasions? Oh, go on then!
Review of The Pale Horseman - Bernard Cornwell by
pmcds
Advantages: Writing style, pace and characters, hard to put down
Disadvantages: Nothing really
The difference between Bernard Cornwell and a lot of other authors is that you know every word of his text is important, and you feel comfortable taking that little bit more time to read his work thoroughly. His novels are set against factual historical b ...
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28.12.2011 13:03
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Because everyone needs Pants.
Review of Dinosaurs Love Underpants - Claire Freedman by
azana
Advantages: great story and pictures
Disadvantages: silly and not terribly historically accurate
...some you both adore - Dinosaurs Love Underpants cannot fail but be in the latter category. ...
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21.12.2011 19:35
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Dinosaurs and pants: brilliant!
Review of Dinosaurs Love Underpants - Claire Freedman by
tallulahbang
Advantages: Immensely appealing to boys, fantastic pictures
Disadvantages: None
...what’s not to love? Dinosaurs are totally fascinating and pants are utterly hilarious. Any book, therefore, which co ...
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18.12.2011 14:00
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dinosaurs love underpants!
Review of Dinosaurs Love Underpants - Claire Freedman by
louisechackett
Advantages: great pictures, funny story for children
Disadvantages: none at all for us
My son received the book dinosaur’s love underpants as part of his fourth birthday present from his Aunt and Uncle. The book is quite a large paperback and is written by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort. The book was first published by Simon and Schuster in ...
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03.06.2011 07:41
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This book certainly isn't Pants!
Review of Dinosaurs Love Underpants - Claire Freedman by
theguester
Advantages: Funny, jaunty, educational
Disadvantages: None
Claire Freedman & Ben Cort have really created a jaunty fun rythmic book, with a great flow and still managing to be educational!
I have to say, I really like this book!
It was first published in 2008 by Simon Schuster UK Ltd.
This is a fun book ...
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01.09.2010 23:24
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Different but nice
Review of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke by
dkhanz
Advantages: Keeps you hooked
Disadvantages: Ending not great; too many footnotes.
At a time (19th century) when there are a lot of societies of magicians and a multitude of theoretical magicians themselves in England, there doesn't seem to be much magic going on.
That is where Mr.Norrell comes in. He is a grumpy and uptight magician t ...
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24.04.2010 22:15
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How Dinosaurs became Extinct
Review of Dinosaurs Love Underpants - Claire Freedman by
Wisemind
Advantages: Ejoyable and Eductaional
Disadvantages: None
Dinosaurs in Underpants by Claire Freeman
Dinosaurs in underpants by Claire freeman Is a follow on form the award winning Aliens wear underpants. This is a book I had heard many positive things about.
The other day I reviewed Aliens that ...
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11.04.2010 09:05
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The adventures of one-handed Ren
Review of The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti by
burtybookworm
Advantages: colourful characters, adventure, an endearing protagonist
Disadvantages: A slow beginning
The story opens in 19th Century New England with the hero, a twelve-year-old orphaned boy called Ren living in a Catholic orphanage hoping and dreaming of one day being rescued and brought into the bosom of a loving family. Ren knows little about his ...
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30.04.2009 19:56
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A treasure in every sense of the word...
Review of The Treasures of Tutankhamun and the Egyptian Museum of Cairo - Alessia Amenta and Araldo de Luca by
elliepotten
Advantages: Gorgeous photography, wide scope
Disadvantages: A few glaring editorial mistakes in the text
...gorgeous oversized hardback showing off the treasures in the Cairo Museum. The book opens with a brief history of the museum and details of its layout, before sweeping through Ancient Egypt in a burst of dazzling colour.
Amenta takes the rea ...
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28.11.2008 17:16
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Is there such a thing as a good thief?
Review of The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti by
kingfisher111
Advantages: good read
Disadvantages: none
I was quite intrigued by the title of this book. Was it called 'The Good Thief' because it was about a thief who was very good at stealing or was it about someone who, even though he was a thief, was innately a good person. As I read this book, I felt it ...
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11.09.2008 21:06
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Like Magic
Review of The Red Tent - Anita Diamant by
lauraelaines
Advantages: melodic
Disadvantages: none!
...in Biblical times, this is the book for you. Written in a melodic prose, Anita Diamant creates a wonderful perspective on the family life of the wives of Jacob and meanwhile develops a heartrending love story ...
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27.06.2008 11:25
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Wolf of the Plains
Review of Wolf of the Plains - Conn Iggulden by
MalcolmFraser
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This was a very interesting read indeed. The author really portrays the image of what it would be like being in the scenes. It gives one a whole different view of the man Ghengis Khan was, and leads you up to his rein of power. Very well written with gre ...
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17.02.2008 05:06
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A Life Changing Book - Prepare To Be Moved!
Review of The Red Tent - Anita Diamant by
Seton
Advantages: Beautiful, historical, full of imagery, full of passion and compassion
Disadvantages: I want a series of them!
...time favourite. It basically tells the imagined life of Dinah, but is so full of vivid descriptions and a real feeling for the historical period, that I cannot imagine anyone not li ...
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10.02.2008 17:37
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