From one elephant story to the next, however this is quite a different tale from the last one I read. This heartwarming story shows how people from two different side of the war can help each other. The trust between them puts a smile on your face because the war was all about death and the worst...
Yep, it's another book by Michael Morpurgo with his trademark framing story. This one's a winner. A boy spends a fearful night with his grandmother in the tiny room under the stairs, lit by guttering candles, as a hurricane rages outside. In the morning he races out to see if "his" tree, a great ...
Farm Boy is the second installment to Michael Morpurgo's War Horse Series. Although this book is short and recommended to much younger readers of the first book, War Horse, the book has this imprint of Morpurgo's writing style even you turn the pages upside down. The usage of thorough old country...
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo.Private Peaceful, a touching story about love, friendship, family, war and injustice. Private Peaceful is a story that shows the power of words. It’s a story that shows the power of promises. Private Peaceful is a children’s story that reaches the heart and pl...
Excellent book.When I started it I thought it was going to be decent but not any great shakes. However, by the time I reached the end I wished there was a sequel.A synopsis:Jessie, a girl with a condition called palsy(?) lives with her mother and father. Her mother is away from home, on the mainl...
A coma is a state of unconsciousness where a person is unresponsive and cannot be woken.Imagine this. You are lying in a hospital bed, in a coma, apparently dead to what is happening around you. But you experience it all the same, hear what is being said about and to you, and try in vain to commu...
I think Escape From Shangri-La is quite an interesting book. The plot is something like this: Cessie tried to help Popsicle to remember his past, but how can she help? She is just 11 years old and she doesn’t even know what happened… The only thing that Popsicle can remember is his family.There a...
Star Rating: **** 3.5 starsYou may think being in the presence of an Elizabethan ghost would be a rather scary experience. Not for Bess Throckmorton. In fact it is an entertaining, exciting and at times tricky experience.Bess Throckmorton met a mysterious relative during a family reunion at the T...
