When a book has an over abundance of words like ‘giggles, pink, magical, spells, sparkles, rainbow, glittering, mermaids, pixies, unicorns, elves and happily ever after” lots of little girls get very excited.
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Month: March 2014
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
This is the first in a wonderful series about a quirky young girl who loves collecting odd shoes, writing notes about anything and everything and going on wild adventures. Ottoline is left largely alone while her parents travel round the world collecting things. (A recurring fantasy at this age – being independent and in charge!)
Timmy Failure – Mistakes Were Made
The success of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (DOAWK) has inspired a flood of books about happy underachievers illustrated with naïve stick drawings. Enter Timmy Failure. He’s a hapless loner with an improbable surname: Failure. Timmy wants to be a detective and his sidekick is a polar bear called Total. Together their company is Total Failure Inc.
Manfred the Baddie
Manfred is the leader of an audacious gang. He kidnaps brilliant inventors and forces them to create outrageous machines for villainous robberies and piracy on the high seas. Manfred is also a mean bully of a boss and his henchmen have no love for him.
The Utterly Otterlys
The illustrations grabbed my attention first. Then the title. I love anything to do with Otters. (Like rabbits they are the most endearing animals. Must be the whiskers.) The Otterlys are very happy in their cosy little home in a burrow where mum is cooking fish and the kids play with their sea toys.
Dirty Bertie series
We’re big Dirty Bertie fans in our house. Dirty Bertie is a little boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits and an infectious energy for madcap ideas. It’s impossible to keep Bertie clean – even when his mum begs him to look smart for the school photo – despite his best intentions – Bertie just can’t avoid mud and mayhem.
Marshall Armstrong Is New To our School
Marshall Armstrong is new to our school. He looks different to me. His laces are straight, not criss-crossed like mine, And his eyes are always looking at the blackboard. Marshall Armstrong doesn’t fit into our school. Not one bit…’
Katie Morag Series
Katie Morag is a feisty tomboy adored by children for over 30 years. Katie lives on the island of Struay, which is loosely based on the Isle of Coll in the Hebrides where Hedderwick used to live. Her beautifully detailed illustrations capture daily island life and all the adventures Katie gets up to, living above the island’s only shop where her mum is the postmistress and her dad runs
The Boy Who Cried Ninja
It’s hard when no one believes you. Tim is always getting into trouble – except he tells his parents it wasn’t him who did all those naughty things… it was the ninja, or the astronaut, or the giant squid, or the pirate. Of course they don’t believe him and tell him to go water the vegetable patch and think about how bad he’s been. “If he told the truth, he was in trouble and if he lied he was also in trouble. What could he do?’
Penguin’s Hidden Talent
It was time for the big annual talent competition and everyone was practicing their talent. Except Penguin. “Penguin couldn’t think what his talent was.” He knew it wasn’t baking, map reading or knitting, so his friends tried to help him find out what he was good at.
An Awesome Book
This is one of the books that inspired me to create this site. I found it through word of mouth (my sister-in-law) and ordered it on the internet. (www.averyawesomeworld.com)
Mr Tiger Goes Wild
Toddlers love this original tale of a very civilized tiger who decides he wants to go wild. First he starts walking on all fours. Then he jumps in the fountain and roars and finally he takes all his clothes off! His animal friends are not impressed and tell him to go be wild in the wilderness.
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