Recent Articles in Books: children & YA

Leaving Poppy by Kate Cann
Oct 30, 2007

Our Year 9 reviewers Lucy Bairstow and Aoife O'Neill give their verdicts on  Leaving Poppy,  one of the six novels shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize for contemporary fiction 2007.

The Family Book - Amazing Things To Do Together by Michele Brown
Oct 12, 2007

You know you are on to a winner when a book satisfies differently aged children and the adult with them - and that's just what The Family Book does.

Do Elephants Ever Forget? And Other Puzzling Questions Answered by Guy Campbell
Oct 1, 2007

This is the sort of book that answers questions you perhaps hadn’t thought about posing but your seven to 11 year-olds probably confound you with by asking anyway! So is a zebra black with white stripes or white with black stripes? Find out in Do Elephants Ever Forget?

Buster Books: The Boys’ Annual 2008 and The Girls’ Annual 2008
Sep 28, 2007

According to my young reviewers, The Boys’ Annual 2008 and The Girls’ Annual 2008 are the must–have books for boys and girls in the seven to 12 age group!

Buster Books: Beautiful Doodles and The Art Doodle Book
Sep 27, 2007

Buster Books have published two great books - Beautiful Doodles and The Art Doodle Book - to inspire and encourage the artist within each of us, child and adult alike.

Princess Poppy books by Janey Louise Jones
Jul 27, 2007

The latest Princess Poppy titles: The Baby Twins, Friends Together,  The Big Mix-up and The Haunted Holiday - great new titles for summer reading! Plus two activity books Puzzle and Play and Petals and Picnics - for the little princesses in your life!

The Canine Commandments by Kendal Shepherd
May 2, 2007

Not the ten commandments but 12! If your child just read each chapter heading in Kendal Shepherd’s book she or he would have a good insight into looking after, or just meeting dogs in friends' homes.