Children's Fiction

Urgum returns for more riotous adventures. This book is rip-roaringly funny but includes some very smelly incidents with smelly trousers and a fall down a forgotten crater!

This book had me laughing at the antics of Urgum.  What a name and what a wonderful bunch of hilariously funny incident - it is brilliantly well illustrated by Phillip Reeve and l would say one of the funniest books I've read this month.

A Crazy action packed laugh a minute flip-o-rama book that's just a pound.  

I laughed at the antics and the drawings which are very good, and they are all done in black and white but you just can not stop laughing from cover to cover.

Well Thought out, great for kids and teenagers and adults will enjoy it as well !!!!!

A brilliant children's book for eight year old and upwards.

Josh Lacey's book Bearkeeper is fabulous. The spirit of the book is wonderful, and so are all the characters especially Pip the young lad who goes to try and find his father, who according to his mum is dead but according to some visitors at his home north of London, he is alive and owes money to them.

This is the fourth book in the series and I have not read any of the others but if they are anywhere as well written as this one, children will be inspired by what these youngsters do.

This is a story of magic where all the old type characters of giants and castles and mysterious drawings come together. I enjoyed the book and how it is written and the fun the yopungsters Roland and Thomas have on their adventure to find their destiny.

What a beautiful book, it took me back to when I read the Waterbabies.

This book written by Angela McAllister brings all that is wonderful and mysterious about the sea life.The wonders of the coral, the weeds and the animals that we meet within the pages of her book.  They are made so real and so believeable, we all know about the various fish and larger mammalts that swim in the sea, but this story opens up  whole new vistas of pictures and magic.  

The Magic Thief is the most magical children's book I have read for a long time.

The characters are wonderful, the goodies and the baddies and I loved the apprentice Conn and his wizard superior Nevery Flingas. Conn starts off by being a servant and then becomes much more, he has a feel for the magic and goes about doing things that a normal boy would not do, but that doesn't matter because he is a little hero.

Jamie Rix is at it again with his Grizzley Tales - Gruesome Grown ups part 1. He starts with a fun warning asking you to hand in all scissors, compassess and comps with long handles, and if you need a life jacket and goggles go to disc 66.6!  I didn't think we had got there yet with these wonderful discs!

The reader of the tales is Rubert Degas who has a very, very spooky voice! He is so brilliant that I think these stories should be played on Halloween, they are great fun grizzley tales that won't hurt anyone.

Allie's first day at her new  school, is fraught with problems! Firstly her young brother went to kindergarton dressed as a pirate but the older kids thought he was a cutie but they were taking the micky out of her.  Her class mates were also very cruel to her so she kept making up rules about the things that were happening to her.

This book struck me as strange until I was half way through and realised that Olive had an imaginary friend called Pip who she talks to constantly

Pip, the story of Olive shows how a child whose parents have split up grows to cope with living with her mum who is a high flying lawyer and the scraps  she gets into with Pip who she always blames for her problems.

Olive seems a quiet little thing with Pip, just the opposite, one always leads the other one on.  They have quite a few adventures together with Pip always seemingly landing Olive in a heap of trouble.

It is May AD 81 and this tale is just a wonderful story of four young people who were growing up in the area. We find out a great deal about what happens in the area around the Great Tombs, up from the coast of the port of  Alexandria.

I found this story very fast flowing and exciting for youngsters to listen too.