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|title=The Diary of Dennis the Menace
|author=Steven Butler
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Wimpy Kid-styled books, from those by [[:Category:Jeff Kinney|Jeff Kinney]] right down to those by [[:Category:Jim Smith|Jim Smith]] have always served as a bridge for the reluctant reader, taking him or her into a world halfway between a comic book and an actual novel. With careful design and a healthy picture-to-word ratio the child only used to reading speech bubbles and cartoon captions has managed a proper book before they've realised it. So it makes perfect sense for publishers to allow a franchise to cross over from one format to the other – and this example is the first one to come to my attention. Even if, when you think about it, it seems a very unlikely book in the first place…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141350822</amazonuk>
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|author=Jane Elson
|summary=I'll start with a confession. I read a book recently, and got all the way through and still didn't realise I'd read the whole thing about eighteen months before. I mention it only to say that such a thing is impossible with The Iron Man. With the opening scene, of the behemoth on top of the cliff he is about to fall over, I was there. I was immediately transported to a much younger me, sat in the primary school library or classroom, getting the willies from the vivid description of the Iron Giant's hand helping put the whole robotic monster back together. I don't know of a better way to paraphrase the word 'classic' – but this book stayed with me for over thirty years, and it's just fine to revisit.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302246</amazonuk>
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