Top Ten Childrens Books Reviews

The Honourable Dooyoo Member proxam has initiated a new kind of challenge, 'My Hometown', (come on, everybody lives somewhere and can participate, no hamlet is too small not to be turned into a fine opinion), the reason being that he wants to give dooyoo a kiss of life (it needs this every now and then) and that he wants to show a ...  Read the complete review

I had the urge to share my favourite Children's characters and books with you. Working in the Children's Department of my local library gives me a wonderful opportunity to read books I wouldn't normally have considered (you often find that some books aimed at children are wittier and more amusing than those intended for the adult ...  Read the complete review

Most of these sprang to mind effortlessly, proving the impact they had on me as I haven't read some of them for about 20 years. I’ve put them roughly in order of most suitable age group, youngest first. 1. WINNIE THE POOH by A.A. Milne. First published 1926. Now usually published together with its sequel, The House at Pooh ...  Read the complete review

I suppose I should point out right from the start these are books from my childhood which I've not thought about (much) since then so if the details are a little sketchy then well, go figure eh? :oP I) Morris and Boris - Bernard Wiseman I had a nosey around for this book a while ago and found there were actually quite a few ...  Read the complete review

Ooh. It's coming up for Christmas y'know. Yes, yes, I'm worse than the shops, displaying goods at an increasingly early moment. But, amongst the consoles and the football kits and the Lego sets and the latest in Barbie outfits, I think that every child should be receiving a book. At least one! So I'm getting in ...  Read the complete review

"Begin at the beginning", the King said, gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." That's one of many, many, many brilliant lines from: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865) ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ & THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (1872) ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ ...  Read the complete review

I'll begin by apologising for the fact that some of these books are in fact 'series', but I could not pick one out of any of them, and besides they are best read alongside their companions. And I apologise for the content being hopelessly girly - I have broadened my tastes slightly, but I do still love these books! (in no ...  Read the complete review

As soon as I could read, it was all I ever did. Forget computer games and bicycles and playing in the street with the other kids, Books were, and still are, my passion. I could easily have included another ten titles in this opinion, and I agonized over what to leave out. I'd have dearly loved to have included masterpieces such as C.S ...  Read the complete review

Being a teacher, I still read my fair share of children’s' books, and like anyone else, go back to my favourites time and time again. I have to say that I prefer many children’s' books to adult ones! Here is my list of top ten favourite books, with a brief description of why they are on the list, and what they are ...  Read the complete review

How many times have I heard the line “Mommy, tell me a bedtime story”? It was one I always loved to hear. I believed in the magic of books long before my kids were born. I found story time before bed to be one of my favorite times, whether it was my parents reading to me, me reading to my own kids, or to listening to my best friend ...  Read the complete review

Magic clings to the shelves of the children’s section of any library, and is often mistaken for ordinary dust. Don’t be fooled! Some of the most entertaining, delightful, and meaningful stories can be found there. I adore children’s books, and continue to spend much of my time in this section of the library. Like children ...  Read the complete review

I find it hard to find books that I enjoy now. There are so many more books available for adults than for children that I hardly know where to start. I'm too old for childrens' books but I don't really feel ready for "grown-up" books. I look back on the days where I would come back from the library with 6 books, eager to ...  Read the complete review

I love to read, I've written more book reviews than anything else on Dooyoo and I thought it was timew to tackle a list of the books that gave me my passion for the written word. A list, as most of us know, is a very hard thing to do, not only have we too many things to put in a top ten, we never know which order to put them in or which ones ...  Read the complete review

Being the daughter of a junior school teacher has few things to recommend it, taunts of "just because you're a teacher's daughter" ringing around the playground, having to wait until she had finished marking to go home and having to refer to her as Mrs so&so rather than Mum all go with the territory but all of these are ...  Read the complete review

As it was me who suggested this category, I figured it would be ungrateful of me not to write my top ten now that dooyoo have added it. However, when I looked back on my original Top Ten Books op, I saw that it included a fair few children’s books anyway, so I’ve tried to avoid too much crossover. In fact the only one which has made it ...  Read the complete review

I would hate to mislead you, dear reader, before we even get started. Therefore I shall state a few fact before I begin. 1. I am not a child (at least, not in terms of years lived) 2. I have no children of my own 3. The following list constitutes my favourites, only my favourites, and no-one else's but *my* ...  Read the complete review

No beating about the bush here, my two kids are currently 7 & 3, and here are the top 10 books that "I" have chosen. Not because I'm a control-freaking-decision-making- mother, but because they are my opinions on what makes a good children's book. If I left it to my eldest, she'd pick Barbie stories, if I left it to my ...  Read the complete review