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|title=Rooftoppers

|author=Katherine Rundell

|rating=5

|genre=Teens

|summary=Sophie is shipwrecked in the English Channel on her 1st birthday, with her mother presumed dead, but she's lucky enough to be found by scholar Charles. He raises her as his ward and they have a happy, if seriously unconventional, existence until the authorities intervene on her 12th birthday. With the orphanage beckoning, Sophie and Charles run away to France in the hope that her mother may be alive after all.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571280595</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=The Runaways

|summary=One bunch of wise guys might think they have it all, but they don't. Another bunch of wise guys want it all and have the splurge guns to help them get it. Into the middle come a beautiful starlet-in-waiting, and our crafty innocent abroad, Bugsy Malone. Cue, at some incredibly random time honouring no discernible anniversary whatsoever, this reprint of the long-lost graphic novel version of the story, told for 'all those kids who find it tough reading books with just words'.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007514840</amazonuk>

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~~{{newreview~~

~~|title=Asterix and the Picts~~

~~|author=Jean-Yves Ferri, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo and Didier Conrad~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Graphic Novels~~

|summary=I've never been entirely certain if Asterix was written for children or adults. I am quite certain children were the original target audience, but it is equally apparent that many of the jokes are thrown in for adults as well. It does seem as if more adults are buying Asterix than children now, and comics in general have been taken over by the adult consumer, but Asterix still has plenty to offer the younger reader as well. If it is perhaps a bit more sophisticated than the average children's book today, all the better. I'm all for children's books that are light and easy to read, but I think we are doing our children a disservice by filtering out any book with a more complex vocabulary or a fair number of unfamiliar words. My children did find a few words like ''solidarity'', ''fraternise'' and ''diaphanous'' challenging, but if we don't challenge them at all - how will they learn?

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011677</amazonuk>~~

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