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|author=Eoin Colfer and Victor Ambrus
|title=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker)
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant to admit that the seal was cute, even to himself. That sort of thing was for girls and he was here to club the seal. Seals were affecting his father's livelihood as a fisherman and there was a bounty of a £1 for a seal's flipper: in those days that was good money and even one of the girls had collected the cash. Still, somehow he couldn't quite bring himself to attack the defenceless cub, all big, black, round eyes and obviously unworried by his presence. What would the other lads say though? More to the point, what would his father say?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marina Warner
|summary= Oliver knows he shouldn't be skulking, sneaking and creeping around in the middle of the night. But even good little boys sometimes do things they shouldn't when they're hungry. And it's just as well he does. Without Oliver, the pirate mice wouldn't be able to use the biscuits they've stolen to build an aerodynamic rocket to take them to the moon. And without Oliver they would still be stranded on the cheesy moon unable to get home.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861818</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeanette Winterson
|title=The Gap of Time
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This is the inaugural volume of a new series of Shakespeare retellings from Hogarth Press. Still to come: Margaret Atwood on ''The Tempest'', Howard Jacobson on ''The Merchant of Venice'' and Anne Tyler on ''The Taming of the Shrew'', among others. How is this first book? It's pretty good as Winterson novels go, incorporating Shakespearean themes of time, deception and adoption and turning bears and statues into metaphors while remaining loyal to the essence of the plot. Yet two crucial elements of the play don't make sense in a modern setting, and in the end I felt this added nothing to my enjoyment of the original.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781090297</amazonuk>
}}

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