132,926
edits
Changes
From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to searchBook Reviews From The Bookbag (view source)
Revision as of 12:06, 24 January 2016
, 12:06, 24 January 2016no edit summary
'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].'''<!-- Remove -->
{{newreview
|author=Steven Butler
|title=The Diary of Dennis the Menace: The Great Escape
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Poor Dennis the Menace. He thinks he's sorted his life out, and got rid of the Bum-Face wimp he loves to hate so much. His school, the Bash Street, is giving the winner of an exam they are holding the chance to upgrade to the snotty Posh Street equivalent, which is a nightmare full of books (and worse) and is actually a boarding school – yes, one of those places for people who seriously want to ''live in a school''. Clearly the exam will only have one winner – said wimp, Walter the Softy. But like I say, Dennis only ''thinks'' he has his life sorted – sometimes it can come round to bite him on the bum, and sort ''him'' out…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141355867</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Ian Ross
|summary=World War Two – so often a lesson subject for our primary school children, even after all this time. Nazis, Soviets, Pearl Harbor – but wait. That last wasn't just the clarion call to the Americans to join in with the rest of our Allies – it was a mere episode in a fuller story – the half of the war that was never seen by those in Europe, beyond the fact the British Empire was certainly changed forever. The War in the Pacific is something I was certainly never taught much about in school, at any age. And here's a graphic novel version of the tale from a publisher in India that can serve at last as a salutary lesson.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182051</amazonuk>
}}
