Hide and Seek - Clare Sambrook

Hide and Seek - Clare Sambrook: I'd rather hide from this one, thanks. (326 words)
by wendybull - written on 23.07.08 (Very useful, 18 readings)
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I found this in a charity shop and the cover really pulled me in. I thought it looked very good and snapped it up for the bargain price of about 50p. The story is about a young boy called Harry who has a younger brother Daniel. On a trip out with the school Daniel goes missing from the coach on a scheduled stop at a service station. His parents are overcome with grief at his disappearance and Harry begins to feel responsible as he was on the coach too and had not realised that Daniel had not reboarded after their stop. The problem I found with this story was that it was told through the eyes of Harry, who is 9 years old. He cannot, ...

An interesting book handling a potentially difficult topic. (287 words)
by SmithSJ01 - written on 26.06.06 (Useful, 116 readings)
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‘Hide & Seek’ was something I bought as part of a special 3 for 2 offer without knowing much about it. It was actually the cover that had attracted my attention (different in hardback to paperback) and I thought it would make a good ‘free’ book. How wrong I was! I couldn’t put down the book and read through it very quickly. In fact I didn’t know at some points whether I was reading fiction or non-fiction (it is fiction by the way). I was very surprised to find this was her first novel – possibly because the topic area was quite unusual I felt. Basically without giving too much away (and you can find this out from the blurb anyway) – Harry has a ...