Showing posts with label Books and reading - Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books and reading - Fiction. Show all posts

Monday, 22 August 2016

How to share with a bear

First edition
Summary: One cold day, Thomas builds a cave of pillows and blankets where he can read, but when he goes to get a flashlight, a young 'bear' goes inside and nothing Thomas does discourages the bear from being near him

Thursday, 26 May 2016

Willy's stories

Summary: A magical celebration of stories and imagination. Once a week, Willy walks through an ordinary looking set of doors and straight into an adventure. Where will those doors take him today - to a mysterious desert island or down a deep, dark rabbit hole? (Book jacket flap)

Friday, 6 May 2016

The 65-storey treehouse


Other Title: Sixty five-storey treehouse
 Other Title: 65-story treehouse
 Other Title: Sixty five-story treehouse
Summary: Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-story treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporiser and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favourite flavoured marshmallows into your mouth whenever it discerns you're hungry. Life would be perfect for Andy and Terry if it wasn't for the fact that they have to write their next book, which is almost impossible because there are just so many distractions, including thirteen flying cats, giant bananas, mermaids, a sea monsters pretending to be mermaids, enormous gorillas, and dangerous burp gas-bubblegum bubbles

Thursday, 5 May 2016

Book

First edition
Summary: In a world dazzled by the latest gadgets and mesmerized by Internet videos, the humble book seems like the most ordinary thing that could be. And perhaps it is - until you learn to look closer... and closer... and closer... and you're suddenly in a world that only you can imagine

With soft, warm storytelling and stunning, whimsical illustrations, Book embarks the reader on an imaginative journey through the literary lands of fact and fiction, a world where passwords, viruses, and broken screens can't stop a young boy's earnest quest for truth. Join in this celebration of literature, scrape the skies of opportunity, traverse the forests of what-could-be, free the powers of knowledge, and discover once again why the humble book is anything but ordinary.

Monday, 14 September 2015

Look

Summary: Everyone needs a little attention from time to time, even a gorilla, especially a gorilla.  So how is he going to get the boy to take notice of what he wants?   Using only two words, and irresistible illustrations, Jeff Mack has created an hilarious story about an unlikely friendship, the power of imagination and the joy of books. (Publisher)

Monday, 31 August 2015

Billy's Booger : a memoir (which is a true story, which this book is)

 Other Title: Billy's booger :
First edition
Cover subtitle: A memoir (sorta)
Summary: Billy's wild imagination gets him into trouble at school, but a creative writing contest could be the perfect opportunity for him to shine 

Thursday, 6 August 2015

Book uncle and me

Summary: Nine-year-old Yasmin intends to read a book a day for the rest of her life. Book Uncle, who runs a free lending library on the street corner, always has the perfect book for her. But when Book Uncle seems to be in trouble, Yasmin has to take her nose out of her book and do something. With the elections coming up and the grown-ups busy with their own affairs, what difference can Yasmin and her friends possibly make? Will they get help from Karate Samuel, the eccentric superstar who's standing for Mayor? Yasmin gets to work, ideas begin to fly like feathers, and soon everything starts to spin - out of control. (Back cover)

Friday, 29 May 2015

The 13-Storey Treehouse

 Other Title: Thirteen storey treehouse
Summary: Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-storey treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of man-eating sharks, a giant catapult, a secret underground laboratory and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favourite flavoured marshmallows into your mouth whenever you're hungry. Life would be perfect for Andy and Terry if it wasn't for the fact that they have to write their next book, which is almost impossible because there are just so many distractions

Ethan

Summary: Stuff happens sometimes. Everyday stuff. At school, at home, with sport, with mates. For Ethan it happened when he thought his best friend didn't like him anymore

Friday, 23 May 2014

A book is a book


This book asks "what is a book?" It celebrates books and reading. It captures the value and magic of books felt by all voracious readers, and is a perfect gift for book-lovers of all ages.

Wednesday, 21 May 2014

A book

1st ed
Cover title
"Once, in A book by Mordicai Gerstein, published by Roaring Brook Press, New York, there lived a family of characters"--P. [1
Summary: Once upon a time there was a family who lived in a book. All but the youngest had stories they belong to - fighting fires, exploring space, entertaining in the circus - but the little girl doesn't have her own story. So she goes on a quest through the book, and encounters different genres in children's literature including graphic novels, mystery, pirate/adventure, historical fiction, and science fiction. A sophisticated picture book

Thursday, 17 October 2013

Charlie Cook's Favourite Book

Summary: A circular tale in which each new book character is reading about the next, beginning and ending with Charlie Cook. Suggested level: junior, primary. 

Thursday, 23 May 2013

The Legend of Spud Murphy

Summary: Suddenly, a shadow fell across my brother. It was Spud. She had appeared without a sound, like a ninja librarian.
Will and his brother Marty are doomed to spend their holidays in the library. If they put a foot wrong Mrs Murphy, the legendary librarian, will use her dreaded gas-powered spud gun and they don't want that - just ask Ugly Frank how he got his nickname! But in Will and Marty, has Spud Murphy met her match.....?

Suggested level: primary, intermediate

Friday, 1 June 2012

My Brilliant Book

On title page Michael Broad is crossed out and replaced with: by me, Sam

Contains 1 mini book with blank pages

This is me, Sam.
And this is a book I made all by myself. It's got all sorts of BRILLIANT stuff in it, like hairy monsters, giant bugs, dinosaurs, aliens, a flying train and loads more.
There's even a FABULOUS surprise at the end. It's really, really, REALLY BRILLIANT.
Well, I think so anyway. Take a look inside and see for yourself!