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|author=Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet
|title=Gordon's Great Escape
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The life of the humble balloon is one full of fear and dangers. Imagine going out of the house each day and all that protects your vulnerable self is a thin sheet of taut rubber. Even if you do get to survive into your dotage, this is not a long time. Who has not left a balloon alone for a week or so, it starts to sag and go wrinkly until it is nothing more than a floppy bag. Depressing as this may be, Gordon the balloon looks on the bright side of life and is determined to enjoy every moment he has.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471143635</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author= J P Delaney
|summary=Meet Tom. The experience is easier and more pleasant after a few pages of this book, for it begins without him remembering his own name. But eventually he pieces his day and his life together – he is a student at a stereotypically bad posh boarding school, with his new-money parents working abroad (''somewhere with a desert''). He was struck on the head by a cricket ball, and has now been admitted to a hospital for a few days – and nights. With four very diverse residents already in the children's ward, added to the horrid matron, the inept young doctor and the incredibly ugly and evil-looking porter, he settles down, finding it not quite the holiday from school he expects, but worthwhile all the same. He also finds that some of the other kids have a Midnight Gang. What and where is this, can Tom go – and what might he get out of it – immediately become the salient points of this latest huge-seller by [[:Category:David Walliams|David Walliams]].
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008164614</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gerard Reve
|title=The Evenings: A Winter's Tale
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''The Evenings'' was voted the best Dutch novel of all time by the Society of Dutch Literature, and its author, Gerard Reve (1923–2006), was the first openly gay writer in the Netherlands. It's a historic book for its native country, but will it have the same impact in English translation? Contemporary Dutch novelist Herman Koch compares ''The Evenings'' to the works of Kerouac and Salinger, and I can see how it could have achieved cult status for a certain generation, but plot-wise I found it more tedious than revelatory.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271783</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul
|title=Winnie and Wilbur Meet Santa
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Winnie and Wilbur are writing their letters to Santa. Wilbur wants lots of things including a wind up mouse, tins of sardines, and a cuddly blanket. Winnie, however, just wants a lovely surprise. When Christmas Eve arrives that is what she gets – but it's not exactly the surprise that Santa had in mind. He gets stuck in their chimney for so long that he might not have time to deliver all the presents. Luckily Winnie and Wilbur find him in time and, for once, Winnie's magic seems to be working.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192747371</amazonuk>
}}
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