NOTHING HAPPENS!!i thought these books were really famous because they must be good, they are so boring... well i read this book first so i didn't know any of the characters or anything. really annoying. boring. and stupid
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I did dither over whether or not to read Inkspell as I found Inkheart a little slow in places but decided to go for it as I can't leave a trilogy hanging......
I'm glad I did, because it's worth the read. As interesting a concept as Inkheart was (reading characters 'out' of books), Inkspell held my attention and imagination better, perhaps because it's more interesting to see what goes on when you read yourself 'into' an imaginary world?
I don't know if it's intentional, but this book seemed to follow the same formula as the first, as far as 'pace' goes. The first third of the book had me turning pages to see what surprises the new world held....the middle third seemed to drop a gear and meander along until it reached ... Read More:
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I'm only about 16 - 6 years old and I can draw horse very well for my age. This book a good although i havn't got it, it looks pretty cool. i find that the legs are probably the hardest part, I'd say the head is easy! I paint horses in watercolours and I'm going into the glasgow school of art when I'm older. Maybe I'll take that book with me, it is sooo good. RAY RULES @ MY STABLES
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I havent read this book yet, as i have only recived it today (12th september 08), but amazon sent it to me and it arived exactly when it should. Thankyouu! xThe Butterfly Lion
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I've been reading this to my daughter, now eight', for the past five years at least. A short moral tale that lends itself to daft voices and silly accents with the opportunity to ad lib as and when. Because of its narrative flow it can also be put to music....I've done it many times.... It is without doubt her favorite bedtime story even now....its the perfect 5 to 10 minuter.
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Bond has been given time off from Eton after the adventures in `Double or Die'. He has been sent with his Aunt to Mexico to get some much needed R&R. This being Bond means that action is never far away. When Bond is left with Captain Stone and his two spoilt children, Precious and JJ, he expects a month of boredom and frustration. However, this is far from the case as a group of attackers enter the house during a storm and try to kidnap the children. James, Precious and JJ must get away from the kidnapper s and find help. These are stone cold killers and if Bond and co. do not get away they will be led to a deadly island where no one ever leaves.
Having read all of Charlie Higson's `Young Bond' novels I have to say that `Hurricane ... Read More:
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I love this book and all the other ones in this series because the illustrations are so great, very sweet, but incredibly bright and colourful at the same time, they really catch my babies' attention. They are also hardcover which is great for younger children because they cant tear (or eat) the pages and they can start to try and turn the pages themselves rather than have to sit there and be good in case the book gets all torn!
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Found the book really useful as a simple introduction into signing for babies and young children. However don't buy from here go to the makaton website as the book is much much MUCH cheaper.
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I am not very familiar with picture books. They are not what I grew up on and am more often than not repulsed by the sort of illustrations they, well the modern ones tend to have. They are grotesque and often just insulting to a child's intelligence really. Well, "The Incredible Book Eating Boy" features illustrations which are no less conventionaly gruesome, to say the least, but blessedly not plain grotesque. It's the idea behind it, however, that gets to sparkle so! The book is 'bitten off', on the back cover. Yet the story is about anything but the carnally gluttonnous consumption of books. It is a fantastic and, simple, ingenious parody of what the world expects today from a given piece of media: that it should be understood at once without the audience ... Read More:
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'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' has been one of the favourite stories for children at the nursery where I work for years. It is a beautiful and well-constructed story, with nice use of repetitive language patterns that children can join in with or re-enact.
I was a little concerned by the idea of a DVD version: I didn't want to see one of the children's favourite stories ruined by over-production.
I needn't have worried. The DVD is beautifully-produced. It doesn't detract from the story in any way: the animation is simply an animated version of the illustrations from the book and the narration (by Kevin Whately and Emelia Fox) is just right. The added music track isn't intrusive, and it's used to partially set the words from the book to music. It's hard ... Read More:
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