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|author=Ruth Fitzgerald
|title=Emily Sparkes and the Friendship Fiasco
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When it comes to books for the younger age range, I tend to be more interested in the adventure stories, the fantasies, and the mysteries than the more realistic contemporary books. Occasionally, though, something in that genre comes along which completely captivates me - and Ruth Fitzgerald's debut is one of those books. I picked it up to take a quick look after it was recommended to me as being a perfect 'mood-buster', and within 5 pages I was enchanted. (I was also attracting some strange looks on the Tube, having burst out laughing loudly three times by the end of the fifth page - there are definite queries as to how suitable this is as a public transport read!)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001820</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robin Stevens
|summary=This title is clearly of importance to the house of Faber. To this day their puff mentions it was one of their first childrens' books, after the author sent his publisher's son, his godson, some writings based on jellicle cats and some of their scrapes. It's clearly a book that's important to Andrew Lloyd Webber, too, but we'll gloss speedily over that. It's a book that was important to me as well – I certainly had a copy, a thin, barely illustrated, old-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen the musical. And with the excellent writing here and the ability of it to delight so many people of so many ages, it has the power to be important to a future generation.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics)
|author=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=There was a young man whose critique<br>
Of this book was submitted one week<br>
When they asked 'Was it fine?'<br>
He said 'No denyin' –<br>
'There's very little here they could tweak!'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>
}}