Children's Fiction

CloudWorld at War is a wonderfully vibrant sequel to CloudWorld with all the action and emotion you could ever hope for. David Cunningham's writing flows very easily but he is not adverse to putting in the odd long or weird word to send you to a dictionary!

The most miniture horse you will ever find is the topic of Harry Hill's book Tim the Tiny Horse.

I loved his adventures and the problems he encountered. Harry has really opened up the world of miniature characters and how they see our big wide world.  If you love Harry Hill's programme on TV you just have to see and enjoy this brilliant children's book.

A book I highly recommend for any child, the wording and the illustrations are fantastic.

This is a brilliant book for young people to read about times gone by in London, around the markets and the River Thames.

I found this book very humbling when we think of how young people today seem to get everything that they want, and yet this story tells the otherside of life.  The life of lads who had to search in all the foulest places just to gain a penny or two to be able to eat and sleep in a dry place.

The two main characters in this book are young boys always trying to get someone into trouble, especially Mr. Grimble the bus driver! Oli and Skipjack start by suggesting that he is the local cat burgler who is taunting the town where they live, and that is the start of their plan and the trouble they get up to their necks in!

These two boys are so crazy that they think they can liberate all the gnomes in the town and set them free! But they don't understand what they have got themselves into and so starts the fun and the scrapes that typical young boys loved to get up to.

If you can't sleep, and you've too much on your mind, pick up a children's book - read it- have a chuckle - and then give it to the gran-kids!

Portable Ghosts is just so hilarious that I was both curious and yet in fits of laughter from page one!  Fancy finding a a Ghost in your local school library and then a friend having one in their bedroom.  What could be more fun than that?   Well our two main characters had just that, Ditta and her friend Max.

This is the 7th in the series about Chestnut Hill and we join the story at the start of the school term.

Our main character Honey just loves one particular horse named Minnie who has been put up for sale by the owners, and Honey is heart broken by the loss of the horse she loves to ride the best.  But there is a real twist in the story which you won't get to till the very end of the book and I think you will love it.

When I picked up Sally Nicholls book  Ways to Live Forever, I did not realise how it would hit me so hard when I started to read the book. To read this wonderful book of what a child wants to do before he dies, and the way he set about these tasks was quite mind blowing. The idea of putting his thoughts and feelings and plans for his life in a book is second to none.

Hopscotch is a special bunny and like many children he thinks he doesn't need a babysitter!

This lovely book is beautifully illustrated by Laura Rankin where every page has a different illustration which are very bright and colourful.

Hopscotch becomes awkward when his mummy and daddy have to go out that he decides he has a upset tummy and doesn't want mummy and daddy to go out. But mummy says he willl be well looked after by the babysitter.

Another marvelous selection of Horrid Henry Stories, written by Francessca Simon and read by Miranda Richardson.

Henry really does know how to get up everyones nose, and really make them mad with him, but what would we do without these wonderful stories to laugh aboutand visualise when we hear them so expertly read by Miranda.  How she does all the voices I just dont know.

Well here is a story of three children who always get blamed for everything. They go to school together and between them also have two dogs and what they get up to in this story is just a whole lot of trouble.

As the back of the book says and I agree, how could they have known that trying to save the world they would end up being accidental reality TV stars, which would just end in disaster for everyone.