Top Ten Childrens Books Reviews

I've always loved to read and have passed my love of books onto my daughters. I really enjoyed reading to them any time of day, but especially at bedtime - I was thrilled, but rather sad, when they said they were 'too old' to be read to anymore as they could read themselves! the following is a list of my favourite books but ...

My top ten children's books, in no particular order are... 1. The Famous Five - yes this is cheating a bit because it's a series, but I grew up reading these adventure stories and I love them! Real nostalgia here. 2. The Jolly Christmas Postman - I remember reading this one with my mum! I love all illustrations and the little ...

I have two boys at a year old and a niece at four and I never believed I would get sick of reading stories, being super mum & all that. However, there are some books I am truly sick of - Disney Lion King or Tarzan, neither flows very well, makes it difficult to read and Miffy, poor Miffy, I used to love Miffy, but again doesn't flow and ...

After doing Malu's Literary Challenge in my last review, I thought I'd have a go at my Top 10 Children's Books. It certainly sounded easy enough in practice. However after having a good think I realised I could only recall three or four titles from my youth, and the rest were Doctor Who books (which probably doesn't say much about ...

My children all know how much I love to read, but the question most often on their lips (when they see me curled up with yet another good book), is “what books did you read when you was little Mummy?”. Now I read lots of books as a child, and not all of them could be considered children’s books, but I’m now going to rack my memory and see if I ...

I am a real bookworm. Ever since I can remember I have been a member of the local library and learned to read before I went to school. I would be lost without books and you can always find a paperback in my bag so that I can be transported away from my normal life whilst commuting to and fro work. I have ...

Anyone that knows me will tell you I`m not one to shy away from a Challenge, I mean for heaven sakes I`ve read every Robert Rankin I`ve been presented with, if that`s not the stuff to make a man out of a mouse, I don`t know what is.. So here, I present my answers to the questions (and for once I haven`t been a smart-arse git and put "42" ...

There was a time when dooyoo was not the scene of all these challenges; instead ciao ("the other side") was home to copious people asking copious silly questions about other people's duvet colours, and whether they brushed their teeth before or after they woke up. Thankfully, here we can at least survey some interesting, ...

Hello, feel free to ignore this opening rant and skip down to the challenge. Or not. You could always skip straight on to another opinion, by someone else, I wouldn?t mind, honest. I wouldn?t even know that you?d been by, so there would be no need for any embarrassment as you tried to shuffle out without being noticed, or texted a mate to ...

AKA Malu's Challenge.... Q: What is your favourite genre? A: I like modern fiction, not just chick lit but including that - things like "Cuban Heels" and "Baggage", both my Emily Barr for example.. But I also like factual books like "Fat Land", a book like "Fast Food Nation" but ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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) ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...