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Title: The Royal Rabbits of London Author: Santa Montefiore, Simon Sebag Montefiore This book is about a puny little bunkin called Shylo Tawny-Tail who is cowardly but extremely clever. He is the youngest in his family so his brothers and sisters tease him a lot. One day Shylo was walking through the forest by himself looking for food for his family, when he came across a small burrow. Here he met the mysterious Horatio and they became friends. One morning, on his way to Horatio’s burrow, he came across some rats and overheard their evil plan to take a picture of the Queen in her nightie and post it on Rat-on-a-celebrity.com making them a million quid. He quickly ran to Horatio’s and told him what he heard. So Horatio sent him on a mission to find the Royal Rabbits of London and save the Queen from humiliation. Does he find the Royal Rabbits? Does he get caught? Can he become the most famous rabbit in history? You need to read the book to find out! We enjoyed this book because it is adventurous, exciting and it teaches you “BIG THINGS come in small packages”. We recommend it to 8+ readers…

Read our blog post on the lovereading4kids website about the book launch for Wings: Flyboy by Tom Palmer. We can’t wait to read the other books in this series. Thank you to Shelley & Louise at Lovereading4kids.  

Title: Alfie Onion Author: Vivian French Aggie believed in fairy tales. On Aggie’s 18th birthday, she married a pig farmer. Together, they had 8 sons. The 7th son was called Magnifico and he was the 7th son of a 7th son which made him a hero! They didn’t want Alfie, who was the 8th son because they didn’t need him! Aggie sent Magnifico on a journey to kiss a princess so they could all live in glorious luxury! They decided to use Alfie to help Magnifico carry his picnic baskets, as Magnifico was too fat, greedy and lazy to do it himself! So, together with Alfie’s talking dog, they set off on the 7th day of the 7th month. They didn’t realise that 2 magpies called Kev and Perce were spying on them to take their sparkly, shiny stuff away from them. Halfway through the journey they met a man called J. Jones and bought a horse for some porkpies. In the saddlebag, there were 2 mice called Norman and Penelope. This is where the ADVENTURE BEINGS… Do they really live in glorious luxury forever? Do they live happily ever after? We recommend it to 7+ good, adventurous readers. We…

Title: The Person Controller Author: David Baddiel Who could know a replacement controller could change your life! It’s videogame-tastic! This book is about a set of fraternal twins called Fred and Ellie who love videogames. One day, Eric, their fat dad sat on Ellie’s controller and it got stuck in his bum. The next day, the twins go to the school computer room with one laptop in it, to search the Internet for a new controller and this is where the story BEGINS!!! They find a website with a new controller. A mysterious man pops up on the screen and asks them if they want the controller. So they say “YES!” When they get home there is a parcel for them and they take it to the playroom and open it and there is their new controller with 6 glittery buttons and blue pulsing lights. They don’t really know how it works! Fred puts on the bracelet while Ellie fiddles with the controller and tries to get onto Super Mario Bros and Fred jumps across the room. This is how they realize that it controls people not TVs. Now they have the controller will they: win the Interschool Winter Trophy…

Title: The Bolds Author: Julian Clary The Daniel Mail – A fantastically funny new book by Julian Clary. The Alexander Times – A hilarious book – even the book laughs with you!  The book is about 2 ordinary hyenas called Spot and Sue, that live with their pack in Africa. One day Amelia and Fred Bold arrive in Africa and change the 2 hyenas’ lives forever by giving the hyenas a new identity and making them the new Mr and Mrs Bold (we won’t tell you how this happens!!!!!). The new Mr and Mrs Bold find themselves in an ordinary house in Teddington, living next door to Mr McNumpty (AKA Mr McGrumpy). After a while of living in Teddington, Mr and Mrs Bold give birth to twins – Bobbie and Betty and have to teach them how to be humans. This isn’t easy as hyenas have a long, bushy tail, a black smooth nose and a loud cackling laugh…. Will the hyenas’ secret be found out or do they discover a secret of their own? Does Mr McNumpty stay as Mr McGrumpy? We loved the book because it was funny, exhilarating and we couldn’t stop laughing. We would love to…

Title: The Usbourne Mini Astronaut’s Handbook Author: Louie Stowell It was a good information book. It taught me all about how to be an astronaut for example, how life is on the ISS (International Space Station). Did you know that to be an astronaut you need to be: a generally healthy person; bright and hardworking; friendly and fine in small spaces? I won’t be a good astronaut because I need to be comfy and can’t live in small spaces! I can’t wait for the official book to come out. Alexander   I like the footnotes that give you little snippets of information which will be more detailed in the real book, e.g. how they pee and poo! Also, I like the colourful illustrations. We give the book 10/10. Daniel

Title: Pinocchio Author: Michael Morpurgo Have you ever read Pinocchio? We bet it wasn’t written in Pinocchio’s eyes! If you haven’t read Pinocchio we will tell you all about him. First of all, Pinocchio is a puppet, actually, the most famous puppet in the world! Also Pinocchio is more than just some cherry wood and string; he is ALIVE but he is often stupid, very stupid! At one point in the story he is so stupid that he gets robbed by a blind cat and a fox! He was made by Gepetto because he’s darling wife wanted a child. After he was made, his darling wife was full of happiness. Pinocchio does what he wants and never thinks about the consequences. Pinocchio jumps from the frying pan into the fire and is always in danger. Pinocchio is always naughty like when he ran away to the circus and he sold his ABC books that Gepetto bought him! We aren’t going to tell you anymore about Pinocchio as you will have to read the book to find out the story. Alexander’s favourite character is the blind cat because he always repeats what the lame fox says and Daniel’s favourite character is…

Title: Animation Studio Author: Helen Piercy This is a really cool set. We really enjoyed it and it was lots of fun! First we made up the story, then we got the scenes ready and then our adult helper started to take the photos while we slowly moved the characters. When we had the photos, we used some animation software, which you can download from the Internet and our adult helper put it all together for us. We then recorded our voices on a mobile phone and added them to the software. It was so much fun that we think we will be making another one very soon! We would give it 100 stars because it is so good. P.S. You might need an adult to help you with the animation. From a parent’s point of view – this is a great animation set for children as it contains lots of ideas and scenes that you can choose from. You need to have some I.T. knowledge to be able to put the photos together using animation software that you can download from the Internet, as it doesn’t come with this set. Great family activity for a rainy day! Highly recommend…