Ok, so you've probably already heard of this series, Enid Blyton is really famous, but if you haven't, here is a post about it. Personally, I love Enid Blyton, and I have read most of her books, so I can assure that in my opinion she is a great author. The Famous Five is probably her most well-known series, and the books are so funny, interesting and imaginative that I'm not surprised I love them so much. She is probably one of my favourite authors and her books are really entertaining! They are rather short (for me, at least), but if you are about 9+ and like reading, then these are great books for you!! Classic but full of adventure, these books were great fun to read, and I think you should give them a go!
The Famous Five are 4 children: Julian, Dick, George (short for Georgina) and Anne. And of course, their dog Timothy!! During the holidays, when everything seems calm and peaceful, an adventure turns up and they're off!!
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I really enjoy the way Tamora Pierce writes. She especially focuses on girl heroes, and rather implies that men and women are equal, which is something I really like. Trickster's Choice, in a way, was different from some of her other series, like the Song of the Lioness quartet or the Protector of the Small quartet, because instead of focusing so much on girls proviing they are as good as boys, it talks about a girl trying to find her place in the world. the way she told us the story made it seem so vivid, and also quite interesting, because it often made us see things from Aly's point of view, even though it is written in 3rd person. When l finished reading this book, it left me on tenterhooks, wanting to read the next book, so l started right away. I am halfway through the second book now, and let me tell you, it is as exciting as the first, although l must admit that l liked her other stories better.
Aly is the only daughter of the famed Lioness, and wants to work as a spy. However, her parents forbid it. When she is captured by pirates and sold as a slave, a god appears to her, offering to take her home if sh eprotects the Balintang children, the family she works for. Soon sent in exile along with the family, Aly must use her skills to keep everything running smoothly... You probably don't know this, but I am a big fan of mermaids, and since I am hoping to get a mermaid tail for christmas (fingers crossed), I thought I would write a blog post about a mermaid story. So, I am pretty sure I wrote another blog post about one of this author's books, a Year without Autumn, and I also liked this book a lot too, and it was a great book. Obviously mermaids vary from one book to another, sometimes people don't turn into mermaids unless they're completely underwater, sometimes just getting in contact with water is enough for them to grow a tail, so it's always nice to read different mermaid stories, even if sometimes it can get slightly confusing, but on the whole I think this book was great and very interesting, and writing it in first person definitely gave it a better review,sometimes it made feel like I was actually a mermaid, not just a human reading a mermaid story. So, if you do read this book (which I don't think you all will because it is about a girl turning into a mermaid, so I don't know how boys will take that; I'll try to review more books for girls and boys alike next time), I really hope you like it!!
Emily Windsnap lives on a boat with her mum. When she goes swimming at school for the first time in her life, she feel her legs start to stick together. Soon after that she finds out that she's a mermaid! Together with her new friend Shona, she tries to find out what really happened to her dad, who she's never met... P.S. If you are a mermaid fan like me and desperately want a mermaid tail, I'd recommend www.finfunmermaid.com; their tails are not cheap (although cheaper than most pages I went onto), but they are good quality and very pretty! I'm not sure if you've read E. Nesbit's "Five Children and It", but if you have, you should know that this book, although written by Kate Saunders, continues the story of the five children Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb, with the addition of a younger sister named Edie (short for Edith). This book was so sad, but is was so funny too! It was a very nice mixture of humour and a bit of tragedy, with a beautiful storyline and characters very similar to E. Nesbit's original ones. I would have reviewed the other books (There are three: Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Story of the Amulet), but I read those a long time ago and I happened to stumble on this book when I was in a library and I have just finished it, and I thought it would be great to review it while it was still fresh in my mind. Although I haven't read "The Story of the Amulet" yet, I have read the other two books, and I think they are both absolutely fantastic. Therefore, this post is about all four E. Nesbit books, and I really hope you like them all because they are excellent books.
The story is set ten years after the original books, during World War I. The four children are grown up now, and Cyril is a Lieutenant during the war, Anthea is at art college, Robert studies at Cambridge University and Jane is still at high school, whilst the now 11 year old Lamb and 9 year old Edie are at school too. The Lamb and Edie find the Psammead (the Sand Fairy) lost and powerless in the old gravel pit at the botto m of their garden. And all 6 children have to help the Sand Fairy find back his powers ... |
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