Title: All About Theatre Author: National Theatre This book is about The National Theatre. It tells you about how they make shows like War Horse, One man, two guvnors, Hamlet, Treasure Island and Emil and the Detectives. I enjoyed this book because it taught me a lot about different aspects of theatre and now I want to go and see some of the shows mentioned in the book. I really recommend the book. The lighting section is my favourite because the lights do cool things and with the lights you can change quickly from one scene to another. In each chapter, there is a section called “Tricks of the Trade” which gives you details about the tricks the actors use, such as food and drink, making costumes look old and what actors do to warm up. I really enjoyed reading about them. If you have an interest in theatre this is the book for you. If you are a bit squeamish, there might be a few pages that are a bit too graphic and you might want to hide the photos (even though it’s down to make-up and props) but the book is definitely worth reading. I give it 10/10

Title: Timmy Failure – Sanitized for your protection no.4 Series: Timmy Failure Author: Stephan Pastis This is the 4th book in an amazing series. The books are about a boy called Timmy Failure who is a detective but he isn’t a very good one! The series is funny and I recommend this book to 7+readers who like funny stories. If you like Tom Gates or Wimpy Kid, the Timmy Failure books are for you! 🙂 In this book, Timmy is trying to find out who stole the money from Yip Yap. Yip Yap is a group of children from Timmy’s school, who are trying to raise money for a boy called Yergi Plimkin who has no books. One week, they had 120 dollars but the next week they only had 12 cents! However, Timmy can’t investigate because Timmy’s holiday is not at home – he is helping Mum’s new boyfriend Doorman Dave move into his new house in Chicago. On the way, Mum’s car breaks down so her new friend Esther takes him and Total the Polar Bear to Chicago while Mum waits for the breakdown truck. Mum’s friend Esther happens to be Molly Moskin’s mum and according to Timmy,…

Title: Mel Foster and the Demon Butler Author: Julia Golding I didn’t really enjoy this book because I didn’t understand it and found it difficult to follow, as it kept flicking from one place to another.  Maybe it’s for an older audience of 11+. However, don’t let my review stop you reading the book as you may enjoy it more than me. I think I’ll come back to it in a year or so as I like to re-read my books!  

Title: The World of Warriors: A new Hero Author: Curtis Jobling This book is about a boy who goes on an adventure to a different land and this is how his adventure begins! One day, Trick was in his grandfather’s second hand book shop; like he was every morning and they discussed Trick’s pendant that his mum had bought for him. Later that day Trick, was in a comic shop as he liked comics. As he left he bumped into three bullies. They took his comics and tried to take his wallet but he managed to escape. They chased him around town until he reached The British Museum. He ran past the curtains into a new exhibition and then ran into a room at the back. It was full of mannequins! Soon 2 of the 3 bullies found him and the smallest one had a metal pole in his hand. Trick saw a dish made of the same thing as his pendant but as soon as he got close to it, his pendant stuck to it like a magnet and it nearly strangled him. The youngest bully was about to hit him with the pole but then a blue piece…

Title: Ted Rules the World Author: Frank Cottrell Boyce On Ted’s birthday he thought his parents were wrapping presents but instead they were asleep! Later he goes into Neighbourhood to buy tasty Hula Hoops for his birthday. While Ted is in the shop he becomes Prime Minister but doesn’t find out straight away and he doesn’t know why!!!! Also, every time he tells the shopkeeper something, the next day it’s law. A new law is football cards are sold in playgrounds and also Mondays are weekends! What’s happening???? Something weird is happening and Ted doesn’t know what and neither will you unless you read the book! From the book, “The lesson for us is that no one is average. Everyone is special!” I really enjoyed the illustrations and the book is action-packed. I recommend it to 7+.  

Title: Puppy Academy Author: Gill Lewis This book is about a lot of puppies in an academy called Puppy Academy. The main character is Scout (she is a German Shepherd) and she is training to be a police dog. Scout’s dream is to catch the notorious Frank Furter before he steals all the juicy sausages like venison and redcurrant, chipolatas and chorizo. That day, the puppies are trying to get their Care in the Community badge. On the way to school, Scout helps a little girl and Scout gets dirty and then she is late for school and two of her tests…. Does she get her badge or are there consequences? Do they catch Frank? I give it 10/10 and recommend it to 7+ animal lovers. I can’t wait for more books. I love the illustrations!  

Title: The Usbourne Mini Astronaut’s Handbook Author: Louie Stowell It was a good information book. It taught me all about how to be an astronaut for example, how life is on the ISS (International Space Station). Did you know that to be an astronaut you need to be: a generally healthy person; bright and hardworking; friendly and fine in small spaces? I won’t be a good astronaut because I need to be comfy and can’t live in small spaces! I can’t wait for the official book to come out. Alexander   I like the footnotes that give you little snippets of information which will be more detailed in the real book, e.g. how they pee and poo! Also, I like the colourful illustrations. We give the book 10/10. Daniel

Title: Jonny Jakes Investigates The Hamburgers of Doom Author: Malcolm Judge Jonny Jakes is a newspaper writer for The Woodford Word who spies on people to get exclusive stories. He has “3 spy cameras, 15 disguises and more wigs than is normally considered healthy for a boy of his age”.  His name is not really Jonny Jakes; that is just one of his identities as well as Fiona Friend, the editor of the paper. Nothing will stop him finding out some news and he’s got plenty of news to tell when Mr Hardy (the Head) leaves and then Mr Jones (an alien) takes over his job… IN THE MIDDLE OF TERM! MR JONES ALLOWS THE PUPILS TO EAT SWEETS AND HAMBURGERS IN CLASS and this is where the story begins. I really enjoyed this book and the pictures and comics in it. I recommend this book to 8+ readers who like picture, adventure and long books! I read it in a day! I give this book ***********/********** 11/10 stars

Title: The Accidental Prime Minister Author: Tom Mclaughlin This book is about a boy called Joe, his mum and his best friend Ajay. Joe’s mum was the park warden and one day when Ajay came round for breakfast, some post came through the door saying…  THE PARK WAS CLOSING DOWN! So when the Prime Minister came to Joe’s town, Joe gave him a piece of his mind as his mum was going to lose her job. However, the press recorded his whole argument and put it on TV and Joe became very famous; soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo famous that the Prime Minister summoned him to Downing Street so he could be Prime Minister. “Little did he know that things would never be normal again.” When something like this happens, you always have someone who wants to take your place and in this case, it was evil Violetta, the Vice Prime Minister. Will Joe survive as Prime Minister? Or will Violetta (his nemesis & leader of the Anti-Silliness League) strive for victory? Will Jenkins (Joe’s secretary and second best friend) betray Joe and turn to the Anti-Silliness League? Read the book to find out! I recommend this book to 8+ readers because it has…

Title: Sedric and the Great Pig Rescue Author: Angie Morgan Sedric lives in Soggy-in-the-mud in the DARK AGE! His friends are Eg, Veruca, Robin and Urk. This is the story: Sedric’s Pig Denzel gets locked up in the DUNGEON by the new Baron Dennis because he jumped on Prunehilda who is the Baron’s wife. Then the Baron came to Soggy-in-the-mud and took everybody’s turnips as tax to buy Roman things for his castle. When Sedric and his friends go to get Denzel back, they spot a thief coming out of the castle and ask him the quick way in and he tells them! When they get in Eg tricks the Baron and his wife whilst the rest search the castle from top to bottom for Denzel. Do they get put in the dungeon too? Do they get eaten by rats? Do they get their turnips back? Do they save Denzel? You will have to read this cool action-packed book to find out! I recommend it to 6+ early readers. I give it 11/10.