Sunday Times Children's Book Of The Week
George's Secret Key To The Universe by Lucy and Stephen Hawking
... Interspersed with colour pages of photographs and fact sheets about the planets, the story occasionally teeters on the edge of being a lecture, but mostly it is like a Dr Who adventure, inspiring curiosity and amazement.... NICOLETTE JONES
Heading for a fall | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
Nick Hornby's first novel for teenagers, Slam, is touching and convincing, says Philip Ardagh
Tamburlaine's Elephants by Geraldine McCaughrean review | Children's Books - Times Online
Sunday Times Children's Book Of The Week
Tamburlaine's Elephants by Geraldine McCaughrean
Everything Geraldine McCaughrean touches turns to gold. After her triumphant sequel to Peter Pan, she has returned to writing in her own voice, on top form, with one of three novels about warriors by different authors published by Usborne. ...NICOLETTE JONES
Carpe diem | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
Review of Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Outcast review | Children's Books - Times Online
Sunday Times Children's Book Of The Week
Outcast by Michelle Paver
Often dark and hallucinatory in its imagery, the book combines a crispness of style and a powerful understanding of loneliness, love, fear and friendship with a vivid landscape, while the author’s grasp of practical survival skills, born of her research and experiences in some of the world’s wildest places, make the novel both credible and gripping. NICOLETTE JONES
The Declaration review | Children's Books - Times Online
Sunday Times Children's Book Of The Week
The Declaration by Gemma Malley
Malley’s unusual debut is a haunting and suspenseful page-turner about a world in which resources are running out, longevity drugs have been found so that nobody needs to die, and having a child is permitted only to those who have opted out of immortality... NICOLETTE JONES
Review: High Jinx by Sara Lawrence | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
Adele Geras on High Jinx by Sara Lawrence
The first sentence is: "Jinx Slater lay in bed listening to Chastity Maxwell shagging the handyman," which alerts you to the sort of book it is going to be... I am sure the present staff of Roedean will read High Jinx in the way it is intended: as an affectionate, if naughty, tribute. The girls will think it's a blast.
Outcast by Michelle Paver and Cottonwool Colin by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross reviews - Times Online
Amanda Craig on Outcast by Michelle Paver
Michelle Paver’s hero Torak does not so much illustrate The Dangerous Book for Boys as live it. His adventures in The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series have been thrilling from the first page, and he has become a great hero for the new generation. Orphaned in Wolf Brother when a gigantic bear killed his father, Torak befriended a wolf cub and was adopted by his friend Renn’s clan. Outcast is the fourth novel in the series, and by now Torak and Renn are teenagers.
