Children's Books > Stephen Biesty Children's Books

Advantages: Well written, lots of beautiful illustrations. Great for kids of all ages. A useful tool for supplementing school projects or as part of a home-school theme on ships.
Disadvantages: To do this book justice, you really need the time to examine each page carefully.

Another masterpiece from the winning duo of Stephen Biesty and Richard Platt, and part of the Dorling Kindersley "Cross-Sections" series is "Castle". This book shows the inner workings of a 14th Century English castle, and as always, provides so much information, you'll want to come back and look at it again and again. Stephen Biesty's talent as an illustrator is immense, and he and Richard Platt (who writes the book) are brilliant in their fields. ...
..."Cross-Sections" series, each two page spread gives a full page illustration of the inside of the castle, with a particular topic in mind. Richard presents a one to two paragraph editorail, and then lines from the drawing come out to sidebars with smaller illustrations and fuller information on some aspect of that topic. Some of the topics included in "Castle" are Defense and Seige, Garrison and Prisoners, Building The Castle and Living Like A Lord. ... Read review

Advantages: Bright illustrations with lots going on in them. Lots of information. Brilliant book for children and adults!
Disadvantages: To really benefit from this book you need the TIME to do it justice ...

Every so often, you come across a book that makes you wonder how you could ever have got through life without it. Looking back on my schooldays, which I loved, I wish Stephen Biesty's books had been around them. I have always loved history and nautical stuff, old ships on display now as museums, swashbuckling pirate movies and tales of smugglers in Devon and Cornwall. Well, this book is marvellous - provides you with plenty to spark an interest in ...
...Sections" series published by Dorling Kindersley, "Man-Of-War" is a brilliant book giving all manner of information about an 18th Century warship. Written by Richard Platt, the book used HMS Victory as the basis for all the cross-sections. When I was a child this great vessel used to be moored on the Thames, in London, but has now been moved to Portsmouth which is one of England's premier naval cities and is a museum. The book itself is full of ... Read review

Advantages: Good Story Line, excellent detail on characters
Disadvantages: sometimes it does not make sense

...he sets him self 5 small steps (hence the title) 1. Graduate high school 2. Get a job 3.Save his money 4. Avoid situations that might turn violent. And ... 5. Lose the name armpit In the story he struggle to find a way to make money when his friend who has cystic fibrosis mentions a concert with the all famous superstar Kaira De Leon and remembers his friend x-ray talking about it in how they could scalping tickets for her concert. They take ... Read review

Advantages: There is none
Disadvantages: It's really dull and you'll fall asleep after the first chapter!

...I honestly know! This is the book that has been made into film. My cover of this book is totally different, it has a picture from the film on it and it says at the bottom "Now A Major Live-Action Film". I hear you screaming at me to tell you the answer to this question: Is it the same story as the film or, as usual, different? I do not know as I have yet to watch the film, I hope I will soon though. I have to tell you that if the film is exactly ...
...was the dullest book I have ever come across, and that's saying something. As usual all the Dick King-Smith book I have ever read, which are not that many, are all really dull, ok they're for younger children and not for a 15 year old going onto 16, but still, I don't know how such young people can even like this story. There are 96 pages in this book and I had finished it in 1 day, as I usually do with all my books, but I had a big problem with ... Read review

Advantages: A decent enough story
Disadvantages: Nothing terribly original

It seems that in the world of entertainment, companies have taken to branching out in order to increase their market share. World Wrestling Entertainment has books, music and films aimed at their particular target audience and now I have seen something from MTV Books, which I was previously unaware of. "Uninvited" seems to me to be the ideal book for the MTV generation. Kelly Ruland is a high school student living in the shadow of her elder brother. ...
...left two of his friends dead, but he walked away. And he kept walking, right out of town and no-one has heard from him since. Suddenly, without warning, Jasper returns to town, although he looks and acts a little different from how he once did. In his wake come a bunch of bikers led by Archie, who is determined that Jasper's future lies with them. Suddenly, having not even seen him for ages, Kelly finds herself in the middle of a battle to save ... Read review