THE OWL WHO WAS AFRAID OF THE DARK

THE OWL WHO WAS AFRAID OF THE DARK
By Jill Tomlinson. Illustrated by Paul Howard.
112 pp. Egmont Books Ltd. £3.99. (Ages 7 and up)

ISBN
9781405210935

Rating: ? Stars

The author of the book is Jill Tomlinson.
Jill Tomlinson never trained to be a writer. She wanted to be an opera singer, but when she got ill she had to stop. She decided to write books for children.
The bus that went to church was her first story. But it was turned down by 16 publishers before Being accepted as a picture book!
In the owl who was afraid of the dark, Plop is a baby owl perfect in every way - exept for one. Plop is Afraid of the dark!
The book costs £3.99. There is a cat, an otter, a penguin, a hen, an aardvark and a gorilla. Egmont is the company that published the book. You can find more information on internet. The ISBN number is 1-4052-1093-1. The picture tells you that there is a baby owl in the book.
In the lady's sketch book there is a Barn owl, hedgehog, bat and a badger.
One half of her book is for creatures that come out in the day, and the other half is for creatures that come out in the night.

GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE

GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE
By Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
128 pp. Puffin. £5.99. (Ages 8 and up)

ISBN
9780141322735

Rating: ? Stars

George's grandmother has a small puckered up mouth like a dogs bottom. She has pale brown teth as if shes only been eating sugar all of her life and never brushes her teeth.
George's grandmother's not a very nice person. She always bosses George about making him do everything for her. George's grandmother loves to eat bugs. Her favourites are beetles. She says your lucky if you get one in a stick of celary.

ELEPHANT ADVENTURE

ELEPHANT ADVENTURE
By Willard Price.
208 pp. Random House Children's Books: Red Fox. £5.99. (Ages 9 and up)

ISBN
9780099183310

Rating: 5 Stars

Elephant Adventure is my favourite book I've ever read. It was one of my reading books in year 5. I found the book when I was looking in the English section and my teacher, Miss Llwyd, told me to hurry up because we needed to start the lesson. So, I just picked out any book and it turned out to be Elephant Adventure. At first, I thought it wouldn't be that good because of the title 'Elephant Adventure' and the picture on the front. But after all, you can't judge a book by it's cover. And when I started reading it, it turned out to be amazing. I'm not going to tell you the whole story just the beggining and end. The book is about two boys named Hal and Roger who work in a safari park. The story begins when Hal and Roger are adventuring in the Mountains of the Moon, and see a large, black elephant with red eyes towering above them. Then, they escape the black elephant and find a village where giant people (Watussi) mixed with tiny people (Pygmys) live. Roger makes friends with Bo, the chief' s son and finds a lost baby elephant, looks after it and names it Big Boy. Next, the Thunder man and his servants kidnap Bo. At the end of the story Hal and Roger capture a white elephant. My favourite part is when Hal is telling Roger the story of how elephants got their trunk, but you have to find out what it goes like yourself. My favourite character is Bo, because he is brave and takes risks. I recommend that you would read this book. If I were to give it a mark out of 10,it would be 10.

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
By Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
208 pp. Puffin. £6.99. (Ages 8 and up)

ISBN
9780141322711

Rating: ? Stars

Charlie Bucket lives in a small wooden house with Grandpa Jo, Grandma Josephene, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgena, Mr and Mrs Bucket. He is a young, kind little boy with yellow hair and blue eyes. He is 4 foot 10 inches and he is 6 stone. He passes the chocolate factory on the way to school. His hobbie is eating chocolate. He has butter and toast for breakfast, he has baked potatoes and cabbage for lunch and cabbage soup for supper. He only had a chocolate bar once a year, which was on his birthday. He always dreampt about going in the factory. once, on his birthday, he opened his wonka bar and found a golden ticket to the chocolate factory.

SNUGGLE UP, LITTLE ONE: A TREASURY OF BEDTIME STORIES

SNUGGLE UP, LITTLE ONE: A TREASURY OF BEDTIME STORIES
By various authors.
176 pp. Little Tiger Press. Out-of-print (Ages 1 and up)

ISBN
9781845065850

Rating: ? Stars

An anthology of six complete picture books:
READY FOR BED!
I DON'T WANT TO GO BED!
WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY BED?
HUSHABYE LILY
GOODNIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT
THE VERY NOISY NIGHT


ready for bed 1 I like thais book because; because the bunny is nice Is it funny or sad;yas, it is funny book

THE GRAVEYARD BOOK

THE GRAVEYARD BOOK
By Neil Gaiman.
304 pp. Bloomsbury. £6.99. (Ages 9 and up)

ISBN
9780747594802

Rating: 5 Stars

I really liked this book and it makes me remember The Jungle Book although it is a bit better.
This book is about a boy called Nobody who is raised by ghosts because an evil man Jack killed all of Nobody's family.
But Jack is still out there and still wants to kill Nobody.
My favourite part is when Nobody defeats Jack.



This is one of the best books I've read because it's really exiting and makes you want to know what is going to happen next.
I think the moral of the story is don't want power because it won't lead to good unless you want to lose of course.
If I had to put this book out of one hundred I'd say one hundred out of one hundred no matter what you said so I say you should definitely get this book and if you don't your missing out on a lot of fun and I do know this because I couldn't even put it down it was so good.
I think eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve year olds should read this book because I think those ages would appreciate this book best and because little children might be a bit scared.




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SPACEBABY

SPACEBABY
By Henrietta Branford.
128 pp. Harper Collins Children's Books. Out-of-print. (Ages 9 and up)

ISBN
9780006751755

Rating: 5 Stars

      The characters so far are 3 of them, Tipperary, Hector and Spacebaby. Tipperary is a young woman that always cares about the baby and has big round eyes. She also has loads of colourful clothes. She tries to give the baby boiled egg but he didn't let her, but he likes milk. Hector is a dog. He has ginger eyebrows and the rest of him is brown. He is always jealous about things. Spacebaby is the one who is telling the story. He thinks that Hector is raining.
      The story takes place on planet earth where Tipperary and Hector are on Mount Wrath.
      Spacebaby is on planet earth telling the story where Tipperary and Hector are camping one night and a giant frisbee flys past them that took a baby to planet earth. He doesn't know how to talk in the planet earth. Tipperary and Hector find him Tipperary is looking after Spacebaby but Hector is jealous with Spacebaby.
      I think the story is very very funny because Spacebaby thought the dog, Hector was raining and Hector said that Spacebaby has a big head. I also think its interesting because they said there was a giant frisbee in the sky above.

FLOOD FIND

FLOOD FIND
By Jan Barrow. Illustrated by Robin Lawrie.
72 pp. Pont Books. £1.50. (Ages 10 and up)

ISBN
9781859023266

Rating: 3.5 Stars

I like this book a little bit because it is a little bit funny and a little bit interesting. It is the best archaeologist book I ever heard or read but at the start it was boring and it came better and better. From looking at the cover you only know one character which is one of the sheep but if you read the blurb you find out who the main character is which is Gareth which is the youngest person in his family and in the book he is about ten years old. Gareth has one brother who is called David and he is around fourteen or fifteen years old and Gareth has one sister who is about at least seventeen years old and she is called Bethan. Gareth lives on a farm with his dad, his mum, his big sister Bethan and his big brother David. David and Bethan don't like Gareth because he is the youngest in the family. David and Bethan always ignore Gareth when he's trying to say something or explain something. Gareth is the main character and he likes digging.

Characters:
Gareth
Gareth is the main character. He loves digging and finding tresure. Gareth is about ten years old and he is also the youngest in the family. He lives on the farm with his mam, dad, his big brother and his big sister, David and Bethan.

David
David is Gareth's big brother. He only can think about working and going on computers. He also wants to go to university when he's older. David is about 13, 14 or 12 years old. He doesn't like his little brother Gareth.

Bethan
Bethan is the oldest kid in the family. She's around 17 or 16 years old. She doesn't like Gareth either because he's the youngest. She's not in a very good mood all the time. She has brown curly hair.

Mam
Mam likes drinking lots of tea and coffe. She doesn't talk very much, expesially she doesn't talk very much to Gareth.

CORALINE

CORALINE
By Neil Gaiman.
176 pp. Bloomsbury. £9.99 (Ages 9 and up)

ISBN
9780747558538

Rating: 5 Stars

This book is very scary but still one of my favorite books .
It is about a young girl named Coraline whose parents do nothing but type on the computer and tell her to leave them alone.
Soon Coraline finds a secret door which leads into a new world where people have buttons for eyes.
First Coraline thinks this world is a lot better. Then she finds out that the person who says that she is her other mother and seems to be so nice really wants to take her life away. She found this out from three ghost children whose soles have been taken away and hidden carefully.
I think the lessons in this book are for parents and children. The one for children is to be happy with the parents that you have and the one for parents is to be kind to your children because they might run away.

THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE

THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE
By Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
64 pp. Puffin. £5.99 (Ages 5 and up)

ISBN
9780141323756

Rating: 5 Stars

I really liked this book it actually is my favourite book.
This book is about an enormous silly crocodile. Who wants to eat all the children
and does lots of tricks on them but all the animals tell the children to run away. But elephant swings the enormous crocodile round and then the crocodile flew to the sun and burns up like a sausage.
and my favourite part is when the crocodile tries to eat the children.
I think 3,4,5 and 6 year olds should read this wonderful book.

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