Sean Taylor

Advantages: Fun story | Funny Illustrations | Ideal Bedtime Reading For 6-8 Year Olds
Disadvantages: It Ends

.... As this short story continues, we follow father and son as they try to catch some chickens, pigs and finally children so that they can have something other than mashed potatoes for dinner. Do they manage to add a bit of meat to their diet? You'll have to read the book with your child to find out….. The actual story has just the right amount of suspense (and feeling of what happens next?) for you to be able to discuss events with the child before turning the page, and yet is not so complex that the young child will get lost. And if it's a moral that you're looking for, there is one, and it makes a good starting point when discussing how we see and treat other people. ---The Writing Style--- I'd never heard of the author (Sean Taylor) before so I started this book with no pre-conceptions on how he would engage a child. However, I found... Read review

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Advantages: Great story for older children and young adults. Really opens your mind.
Disadvantages: The ending is a little low, but then then again it does carry more or less straight onto a sequel, which makes up for it.

...G P Taylor has a fantastic way of being able to bring fantasy, mystery and magic together to create a story that is completely original and new in its field. The literature is written in such a way that it should appeal to both older children and young adults. Similarly, to Harry Potter, there is an evil sorcerer and a young child battling the forces against good and evil. This evil sorcerer is known to the local villagers as Vicar Obadiah Demurral. He is no longer satisfied running the local affairs of his village. Instead, he wants to control the world, as well as God and His angels-and he will stop at nothing. A shadowmancer is a sorcerer who speaks to the dead, and Vicar Obadiah Demurral is so desperate and keen to be the ruler of everything that he even commands restless souls to do his bidding for him! Who... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: A wonderfully funny original read
Disadvantages: Sean only wrote this one book

...was a paperback, Sean and David’s Long Drive. Faute de mieux, I picked it up. The first four pages struck me as being poorly written, facetious and boring. Only the comfort of the armchair kept me turning the pages. How glad I am that I did, for when the book takes off, which it does very soon, it’s supersonic, and the laughs never stop. The basic premise is not exactly promising. Two guys decide to tour Australia in a beat up old 1966 Ford Falcon . Sean Conlon, the author, is in advertising in Sydney. He is square, in personality and build, terrified of travel and lots of other things, a mass of quaking neuroses. He does not drive. Being a passenger is bad enough for him. The driver is his friend, David. David is a shadowy figure, an artist. He wears scruffy clothes and has a long beard. He looks like a seventies hippie, but you just know he... Read review

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