Mr Birthday

Advantages: Fun reading
Disadvantages: Small writing

...Mr Birthday is another character who starts in the new collection of Mr Men books with added sparkle. He is a square shape and blue in colour. He wears red shoes and a red and yellow stripy party hat. The front cover of the book has a picture of Mr Birthday with balloons around him and the title in shiny blue letters above. The back cover of the book has smaller pictures showing a few of the other books available in the new 'added sparkle' collection. THE STORY The story begins by telling us that the best thing Mr Birthday enjoys about birthdays is the parties that is why he always wears his party hat. It tells us that he likes to organise parties for everyone that he knows. The story goes on to tell us about some of the parties he has organised and who they were for. Mr Birthday gets reminded about a very special birthday...

sewbizzie 16.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Mr Birthday - Roger Hargreaves

A LEGAL CONUNDRUM FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY, JOSE ANTONIO

Advantages: He is my dearest brother and I love him!
Disadvantages: I didn't get to see him much when he was younger.

...This is the conundrum I want you to consider: Is it Possible That My Brother Could Be a Cloned Twin of Soho Black? Read carefully, examine the photographic evidence below, and discuss in your comments on the linked page . . . This review is especially dedicated to my younger brother Jose on his birthday; it's my way to say " Happy Birthday " to him (I know he is going to kill me the moment he reads this review; maybe he won't be the only one! There is another ciao member involved as well, so I have got everything ready . . . including my will - lol). It's Your Birthday Today, Jose! While I wrote this review, I was thinking of you, brother; it's amazing how a little child can grow up to be a young man, and oh boy . . . you are a real MAN! I always thought I was quite tall, but it turns out that, compared to...

karimkha 16.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of A birthday greeting

Card Factory

Advantages: Great products at low prices
Disadvantages: Long queues and some products a little tacky

...Card buying can be an expensive thing, especially at this time of year and as much as I love the quality of the cards in stores such as Clintons, with my large family I just cannot afford to buy all my family cards from stores such as these at Christmas. So I was pretty impressed with Card Factory opened up a store in my local town recently. For me this store offers good quality products, but at really cost effective prices. Obviously their main market is the card market. They offer cards for all occasions including birthdays, anniversaries, moving, sorry, thank you and general cards too. Their cards are priced at 59p for a small card, 89p for a medium card and 99p for a large card, which for me is excellent value for money. They do extra large cards which do cost a bit more and they also do a couple of cards in each range for just...

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Review of Card Factory

It's Molly Fox's Birthday apparently!

Advantages: some of the story telling is interesting and well told.
Disadvantages: see review!

...Book Summary... During the summer whilst the successful actor Molly Fox is on holiday in New York, she loans her Dublin home to her playwright friend (and narrator) so that she might start writing her new play. It is the longest day of the year as well as it being her friend Molly?s birthday, and the playwright is finding it increasingly difficult to find her inspiration and instead turns her attention to her own life, reflecting on her past and her relationship with Molly and their mutual friend Andrew. Several questions are addressed throughout the novel through the playwrights (who is never named) reflections; how have her relationships with her friends developed over the years? What is the distinction between a good actor and a great one? And why does Molly Fox never celebrate her birthday? My Thoughts...

burtybookworm 01.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Molly Fox's Birthday - Deirdre Madden

Happy Birthday, Jacob

Advantages: I got a son
Disadvantages: He's now four years old and Hellbound!

..., Ali went in to labour and a call to the hospital was made to tell them our second child was on its way. I remember it all very well, I remember clearly - once Jacob was born - sitting there on his auspicious birth date (the first day of the second month of the third year) watching on the small hospital bedside television as the Space Shuttle re-entered orbit? and disintegrated. I remember that taking more precedence in my mind than the birth of my second son. But now, on his fourth birthday, I remember more clearly the weather of that night. When we rang the hospital they told us not to rush in, but looking out of the window I could see the snow was already starting to fall thickly. "No," I told the woman at the other end of the phone, "I'll take my chances and head in early. I don't want to get cut off by the snow." A year...

markd_uk 01.02.2007 · Read review
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Nectar Card

Advantages: Lots of retailers to collect with
Disadvantages: Online points may not equal amount of cashback available elsewhere

...The nectar card is the loyalty card associated with Sainsbury's, however it has since branched out and is affiliated with many companies which allows for maximum point collecting! Let's start with the basics, you get 2 points per pound spent at Sainsburys or 1 point per litre of petrol bought at the Sainsbury's petrol garage. Each point accumulated is worth half a penny, so you need 2 points to equal 1 pence. If you redeem your points in store at Sainbury's then you will need minimum 500 points for £2.50 off o your shopping. Points need to be redeemed in increments of 500. Points can also be collected in other stores, for example Dolland and Aitchinson also give 2 points per pound, as do Homebase. As far as I am aware however, you cannot redeem your points against your total bills in these stores. Points can also be collected...

rachieb123 06.10.2009 · Read review
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A BIRTHDAY GREETING TO CIAO FROM RICHADA

Advantages: An unusually retrospective birthday greeting.
Disadvantages: Hardly a conventional birthday party.

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RICHADA 21.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of A birthday greeting

A " Birthday celebration" for... SPRING! "

Advantages: Colour....flowers the outdoors blue skies Sunshine!
Disadvantages: Over too quickly!

...Yay! SPRING! Makes you feel better doesn't it just to see the sunshine after a long dark winter. The gorgeous blooms in gardens begining to shoot up. Hope you enjoy this silly little ditty half rhyme and ode to the best season of all...I'm sure you can do better. So SHOW me, do! " HAPPY BIRTHDAY.... TO SPRING! " Here she comes (but is she a 'she' or a 'he' I do wonder!) Sprightly sprigs vanish all gray.. Along come the buds the flowers of tulip Sweet are the smells in May! Hardy are daffs the hyacinths of blue... Crazy the april rains But sweet is the sound of newly hatched eggs and the green ridge of grasses and hay. No longer asleep the rabbit spies fox; resume their wiles as they roam... bird songs of new babies with mothers who feed carrying their morsels, home. The mating...

christina44 28.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of A birthday greeting

Happy Birthday to who?

Advantages: We all need her
Disadvantages: Not appreciating her

...~*~ CELEBRATING OUR MOTHERS ~*~ A fairly short one this time just to make you think... Happy birthday to who? Happy birthday to who? Happy birthday to your dear mummy For giving birth to you! I often wonder at the fact that people celebrate their own birthdays and don't celebrate their mother on that day? Our mothers are the ones who carried us around for 40 or so weeks and then went through (often very long and very painful) labour to give birth to us. How often do we thank our mothers on our birthday by saying "Hey mum thanks for carrying me around safely in your tummy for all that time!" and "Hey mum YOU deserve the kudos on my birthday as YOU did all of the hard work on the day, all I did was pop out (eventually) and start wailing like a baby (well I WAS a baby, so you can excuse me that one)." On top of that she...

anonymili 23.07.2005 (05.08.2005) · Read review
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It's my birthday...

Advantages: focuses on an event children can relate to
Disadvantages: none

...It's my birthday A beautifully simple book, published in 1993; it has stood the test of time because children have birthdays and they understand the importance of a cake. This is a book even very young children can relate to and can draw comparisons with their own birthdays. **THE STORY** Very very simple. It's about a little boy or girl (it's made purposefully ambiguous, so both sexes can relate to the story) is looking forward to their birthday and says that he/she is going to make a cake. (For the purpose of this review I am going to call the little person he) So we begin an informative little account of which ingredients are needed to go into a cake. The little person goes to the hens and tells them that he needs some eggs. Being helpful chickens, they offer to help, and their little wings pick up the eggs for him. He...

danielalong 21.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of It's my birthday - Helen Oxenbury