"Sunday Times Children's Book Of The Week
Apart from being fine entertainment, these stories reveal a culture that it is a crime to destroy. Other volumes in this likable series, retold by different authors, offer Palestinian, Jewish and Polish tales. NICOLETTE JONES
Philip Ardagh reviews Between Two Seas by Marie-Louise Jensen
This is a book that lives through its narrator and shows the lives of people probably unfamiliar to most British readers: those living a harsh 19th-century existence in an alien culture which is happy to welcome a newcomer to its fold, in return for a certain Scandinavian conformity. I was left with a real sense of having been there myself, and can offer no higher praise than that. PHILIP ARDAGH
Sunday Times Children's Book Of The Week
Abbot Dagger's Academy And The Quest For The Holy Grail by Sam Llewellyn
This is a smart, funny book for smart, funny readers. NICOLETTE JONES
In her Guardian review, Mary Hoffman is captivated by Mary Finn's story of a girl's quest through 18th-century India, Anila's Journey
