Julia Eccleshare on the best books to keep kids indoors at Christmas
Reviews: November 2007 Archives
The world inside art | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
Philip Ardagh likes Mirrorscape by Mike Wilks
The special thing that Wilks brings to his tale is the artist's eye, playing with everything from perspective to the different inspirations and styles of the artists whose works his characters inhabit.
All the fun of the Pharaoh
As Tutankhamun returns to Britain, Amanda Craig rounds up the best children's books on Ancient Egypt ....
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz - Times Online
Sunday Times Children's Book Of The Week
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
The novel is dark and damned clever, its preposterousness persuasively mitigated by just enough plausibility. NICOLETTE JONES
Good eggs and malted milk | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
Has Biggles stood the test of time? After reading an anthology of his adventures, Giles Foden thinks he has ... ...
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz review | Children's Books - Times Online
Amanda Craig's conclusion to her review of Anthony Horowitz's new Alex Rider novel should be music to his ears:
Horowitz, and the best spy kids authors such as Charlie Higson, Joe Craig and Robert Muchamore are too often dismissed as pulp fiction when in fact they are outstanding at both writing and plotting. Far too many adults think that children should read books as a kind of Weetabix for the brain rather than because they give pleasure. These writers will, however, lead young readers on to Dickens and Dostoevsky. (If your child is reluctant, try the brilliant audiobook recordings from Naxos and Assembled Stories — the latter, a new venture, includes The Thirty-Nine Steps, The Prisoner of Zenda and Moonfleet.) They share the same understanding that the best kind of story is the one we all need when growing up — about being alone in a dangerous world, with nobody but ourselves to rely on. Horowitz is right up there with Buchanan, Conan Doyle and H.Rider Haggard, and Alex Rider's seventh adventure proves it.
Review: Hazel by Julie Hearn | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
...Throughout, it's the quality of Julie Hearn's writing - assured, flexible, bringing every scene vividly to life - that makes Hazel such a pleasure to read. From the larkiness of the school scenes to the drama of a Caribbean hurricane, she takes us on an exciting and memorable journey.Throughout, it's the quality of Julie Hearn's writing - assured, flexible, bringing every scene vividly to life - that makes Hazel such a pleasure to read. From the larkiness of the school scenes to the drama of a Caribbean hurricane, she takes us on an exciting and memorable journey.
