Changes

Newest Confident Readers Reviews (view source)

Revision as of 09:41, 5 November 2015

119 bytes added , 09:41, 5 November 2015

no edit summary

[[Category:Confident Readers|*]]

[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__

{{newreview

|author=Lindsay Mattick and Sophie Blackall

|title=Finding Winnie: The Story of the Real Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh

|rating=5

|genre=For Sharing

|summary=A little boy called Cole wanted a story. He particularly wanted a true story and it had to be about a bear. It was getting late, but Mummy said that she would do her best. Her story began about a hundred years before Cole was born and it was about a man called Harry Colebourn who lived in Winnipeg. He was a vet and was on his way to Europe to look after the horses of the soldiers fighting in the Great War when he met a trapper with a baby bear: his head might have said that there was nothing he could do, but his heart told him to get hold of the bear and he gave the trapper $20. Winnipeg, as he named the bear, went on the train with Captain Coulbourn and his troop, across the ocean and finally arrived in England.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408340232</amazonuk>

}}

{{newreview

|author=Kate de Goldi and Gregory O'Brien

|summary=If you didn't [[The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other) by Geoff Rodkey|last time]], meet the Tapper Twins, Claudia and Reese. They're in sixth grade at a posh New York City school, and are just trying to get on with things – while making no attempt whatsoever at getting on with each other. This time round, Claudia was instantly sniffy at her brother's idea declared to her on a school bus, just because it was his, but soon realised how great it could be – to host a school charity treasure hunt for gangs of four fellow pupils. With a great prize on offer she bows down from organising it and takes part, against her brother and everyone else – and that's when the problems start. It's not as frightening as the tabloids make out, she assures us – but let's face it, there's high drama, celebrity, greed, urgency – and those pesky adults, all making the smooth running of things most unlikely…

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144401501X</amazonuk>

}}

~~{{newreview~~

~~|author=John Boyne~~

~~|title=The Boy at the Top of the Mountain~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Teens~~

|summary=Meet Pierrot. As a very young child in 1930s Paris he is going to have a very awkward journey through his young life. His father is a violent drunk, reacting badly to what he saw in WWI, and although married to a French woman, is still staunchly German. That woman, Emilie, is going to die, and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him in a home where he is bullied. But from the reaches of Europe and from the black corners of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give him a home, of a kind, at a most unusual mountaintop building. It's not her home – she just works there and had to ask special permission from someone special. The place? The Berghof.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>~~

}}

Sue

Bureaucrats, Administrators

132,959

edits