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• Copy Cat by Mark Birchall
  ...at being there. In fact she starts to be worried that Cat is upset, so she heads off to find him and, in doing so, discovers that Cat is in bed, covered wit ...rts to look after Cat is quite touching too and this again could be a good talking point with children.
  3 KB (580 words) - 11:32, 29 March 2018
• Nor Will He Sleep by David Ashton
  ...l He Sleep'' is the author/playwright's fourth McLevy and, although in our heads we fans hear the actor Brian Cox, the penmanship is pure Mr A. ...Before reading this I was under the impression that we would need to bang heads together to encourage them. Has my impression changed any? Not saying!
  4 KB (742 words) - 11:45, 12 March 2018
• The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer
  ...gestive references in the text, and although the majority will go over the heads of the target audience, I wondered why Colfer included them in the first pl ...ls. And yet who is the first faitytale character that the children meet? A talking frog called Froggy. And while we are on the subject of 'true' fairy tales,
  4 KB (746 words) - 14:44, 26 September 2020
• The Celestial Bibendum by Nicolas de Crecy
  |summary=A disabled seal, talking heads on pigs, the embodiment of dying cities and the devil - it could only be a
  3 KB (474 words) - 12:11, 20 March 2018
• The Grim Company by Luke Scull
  ...e who like their fantasy with a gritty street-level RPG feel incorporating heads ''exploding like melons'' this is dystopia at its most brutal and, indeed, ...rise up and remain memorable even if the pronunciation is best left in our heads. (I went for a Welsh pronunciation for the nasty megalomaniacal wannabe-qu
  4 KB (754 words) - 13:17, 23 August 2020
• Burping Bertha by Michael Rosen
  ...here's a delightful play on the newspaper obsession with ages, with Bertha talking to ''dark-haired, blue-eyed 33-year-old Mum'' which is, if nothing else, an I did wonder if some of the humour would go over the heads (we're back to hot air again, are we not?) of the target age group of five
  3 KB (562 words) - 10:43, 19 April 2018
• Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
  ...e's still a line here and there which really seems to sing out - like Paul talking about pinball, ''nothing can compare to putting the entirety of your faith ...Paper Towns by John Green|Paper Town]], I think they'd also love [[Severed Heads, Broken Hearts by Robyn Schneider]].
  3 KB (532 words) - 12:38, 23 March 2018
• Silent Mountain by Michelle Briscombe
  ...eving the death of his father when, ignoring his Grandmother’s warning, he heads to the frozen lake and gets drawn into a life changing adventure in another ...ood stuff, and Briscombe gets extra points for never mentioning dodos when talking about extinct creatures.
  4 KB (640 words) - 11:11, 29 September 2020
• Gabriel's Clock by Hilton Pashley
  ...care of the former Archangel Gabriel (his paternal grandfather) before she heads off to petition Lucifer for protection from the Archdemon Belial. Whether o ...ng from bad guys sending body parts special delivery FAO small children to talking cats who like to tell dirty limericks (not that the Vicar lets him get that
  3 KB (565 words) - 12:58, 23 April 2018
• The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder
  ...ll when her dad goes off to find her mum, and then doesn't come back. She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the Midnigh ...nds speak. But also because it didn't quite feel like the right way to be talking about Emily's bravado. She does speak out, and speak up, and it does get h
  4 KB (632 words) - 09:31, 20 December 2018
• Bubble Boy by Stewart Foster
  ...lp smiling every time Amir arrived through the transition room and started talking about the aliens landing.
  3 KB (570 words) - 07:41, 19 August 2020
• Confessions of an Imaginary Friend by Michelle Cuevas
  And then, one day, Jacques overhears his parents talking and discovers a frightening truth. He is not Fleur's brother. He is her ima ...f an Imaginary Friend'' appeals, you could also look at [[The Boy with Two Heads by Andy Mulligan]]. Richard grows a second head. And it's not a very nice o
  4 KB (614 words) - 16:57, 11 August 2020
• An Act of Love by Alan Gibbons
  ...e involved in but can't control. We also sit very uncomfortably inside the heads of two extremists, one on each side of the divide - a white supremacist and ...ing happy in a Muslim neighbourhood to getting as far away as possible and talking about just wars. We need to understand why Rafiq ends up throwing a bottle
  3 KB (558 words) - 08:59, 10 October 2020
• Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett
  ...led attack on the multinational corporation, and will probably go over the heads of its readers without even giving them an enjoyable read. Not recommended. ...ends. While reading the gravestones, he is surprised to find a dead person talking to him, then more. They have one purpose. They have decided that Johnny wil
  4 KB (690 words) - 10:33, 14 March 2018
• Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940 by Frederic Seager
  ...n the Phoney War and does it neither by talking going over the heads of or talking down to his readers. ''Neville Chamberlain's War'' is engaging and interest
  4 KB (611 words) - 12:05, 29 December 2023
• The Sticky Witch by Hilary McKay
  ...l and homework. Yet there's also a treacle pond in the back garden, and a talking toad! I liked all the silliness, and the mystery surrounding Aunt Tab. Th
  4 KB (647 words) - 08:12, 2 September 2020
• Savage Blood by Alex Chance
  ...ry good clue as to its content: weapons dripping in blood and decapitated heads. The novel starts with Professor Edward Quinn on a rather unusual journey. ...of dosh is possible, at the drop of a hat. The latest project everyone is talking about is a newly completed night safari with imported animals. Food for th
  4 KB (600 words) - 15:05, 18 March 2018
• Frogkisser! by Garth Nix
  ...did. In amongst the visual sense of levity we get a Disney-ready comical talking dog sidekick, and more, and the whole style is quippy, but I very quickly t .... But finally, in an era when the movies are turning these tales on their heads, this was nowhere near as subversive as it seemed to think. Kids can take
  4 KB (638 words) - 21:34, 5 April 2018
• The Blind Spy by Alex Dryden
  ...a pseudonym and he has worked in intelligence, so he should know what he's talking - and writing about. He concentrates on the battle for supremacy (and we'v Putin's secret services rear their secretive heads throughout this fast-paced novel. One mission seems to stand out amongst o
  4 KB (660 words) - 15:03, 29 December 2022
• The Watchers by Jon Steele
  ...usive services. She almost splutters - ''Let me get this straight. We're talking twenty-five thousand dollars, cash, for one evening.''
  4 KB (641 words) - 09:33, 20 March 2018

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