Home - Alex T Smith

Home is written by Alex T.Smith and tell the sotry of four friends who live together. After some time they realise that they all want different things from life and leave each other taking parts of the house with them, to fulfill their ambitions. It isn't long before they start to miss each and decide that life outside of their little home isn't what they thought it would be. This seems to be one of the few children's books on the shelf these days that doesn't have a rhyming text to it. It's told as a normal story and that's it. I find this quite a refreshing change as I feel that a lot of the books are trying to be different with the rhyming but as a result ...  Read the complete review

This is a nice little kids' book about a group of friends who live together. Each of them wants to do something different with their lives, and in the end they split up and go their separate ways. In the end, they end up splitting up, achieving their dreams, but missing each-other. Only in returning to live with each-other do they feel happy. The moral of this story is about thinking of others, and the need for friendship and community. It's a message I could do with hearing myself, let alone my two year old! The illustrations are full page, with the text dotted around here and there. This makes it a little difficult to read at times, with different ...  Read the complete review

Home is a lovely heartwarming book that is wonderful to share with young children. It is about four best friends, named One, Two, Three and Four, who all share a home together and are extremely happy until they have ideas about what should happen next. The problem is that they start to get restless but they all want to go off in different directions. One wants them to go off to sea to become pirates. Two would prefer that they lived at the top of a mountain and learned to yodel. However, Three would choose to live underground in a cave collecting creepy-crawlies whereas Four wants them to live in the City where they can party all night. As you can ...  Read the complete review