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|author=Enid Blyton
|title=The Enchanted Wood (Gift Edition) (The Magic Faraway Tree)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Joe, Beth and Frannie. For any child the idea of moving to a completely different way of life – leaving a city for an idyllic country cottage – should be more than enough adventure, but not for these three. They soon get told the mysterious woodland nearby is enchanted – they have already noticed a slight difference in the trees, and have a suspicion they talk to each other. And it's not long before they encounter what the forest natives, animals and little folk alike, call the Magic Faraway Tree. All they have to do is climb it against all logical thought and see whatever distant, fantastical and ever-changing world is above the top at any particular time. But can the temptation of that be greater than the fear of the unknown, and of it possibly being a one-way trip…?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283017</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Judith Kerr
|summary=It's not easy being a snowman, you know - particularly when you are made by Ernest Green-Bogle, who delights in tormenting you. Sometimes he'd make you upside down or looking like a pig (it's just plain ''undignified'', you know). That's not the worst of it. He has been known to attack snowman with a hairdryer, feed his carrot nose to a rabbit and even encase him in a block of ice. The snow clown was ''not'' funny and the snow ice cream cone even less so. But one day everything changed when Ernest came home and there was a big boy with him. Ernest had a black eye and the big boy was threatening him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613932</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jan Bondeson
|title= Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary= The Victorians, not surprisingly, had their own tabloid press. The most successful title of this nature was the 'Illustrated Police News', a weekly journal first published in 1864 and lasting seventy-four years. Not to be confused with the more upmarket 'Illustrated London News', its main stock-in-trade was weird, far-fetched and not always entirely genuine stories from Victorian life, generally in Britain but sometimes in Europe as well. This book is based on a recently-discovered archive of the paper. Prepare to be amazed, enthralled, sometimes horrified – and occasionally disbelieving.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445658852</amazonuk>
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