Changes

Book Reviews From The Bookbag (view source)

Revision as of 13:20, 6 September 2017

422 bytes removed , 13:20, 6 September 2017

no edit summary

'''Read [[:Category:New Reviews|new reviews by category]]. '''<br>

'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].'''

{{newreview

|title=Charlotte Says

|author=Alex Bell

|rating=4.5

|genre=Teens

|summary=''Charlotte says... don't open the door.''

Jemima's mother died in an awful fire not long ago and that is why Jemima decides to leave London and take up a job as a teacher on the Isle of Skye. But leaving the place doesn't mean escaping the memories and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on that terrible night. It doesn't help that Miss Grayson, the mistress at the school, is a strange, forbidding sort, while the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old building.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158404</amazonuk>

}}

{{newreview

|author= J Jefferson Farjeon

|summary=Speaking many languages fluently seems close to a superpower to most of us. Elena Lappin's memoir is about how she came to be at home in five or more languages, and what effect this has on her identity. Her family's history and the emigrations that led to her learning so many languages are caught up with European events. As a child she moved from Russia to Czechoslovakia and from there to Germany. Elena was encouraged by exchange holidays abroad to learn French and English too. Then she chose university in Israel and learnt Hebrew. So just as the rest of us might pick up bits of furniture or books from our various homes, Elena picked up a language every time. A clever member of an intellectual household, with parents who were translators and writers, there never seems to have been great effort involved in acquiring languages, it just happened.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844085783</amazonuk>

}}

~~{{newreview~~

~~|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano~~

~~|title=Life on Earth: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Children's Non-Fiction~~

|summary=I was a big fan of dinosaurs when I was a nipper. Since then the science regarding them has evolved leaps and bounds. We've got in touch with them perhaps being feathered, and have assumed colours and noises they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesight, hearing and so much more may have been like. But science will never stop, and the next generation will need to be on board with the job of discovering them, analysing them, and presenting them to a world that never seems to get enough of the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renown. As you're the kind of person to ask questions, you may well ask 'how do you get that next generation ready for their place in the field and in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer – even if it is made itself of a hundred questions.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>~~

}}

Sue

Bureaucrats, Administrators

132,810

edits