When I was about ten years old, Tilly and I went to a film-making club for a couple of months, making a stop-motion animation (I
Rating: 2/5 This book was simply ‘ok’. When there were any exciting or gripping parts, it was all over within a page or two. And
Rating: 3/5 Nujood Ali was hastily married off at age around nine (she had no birth certificate and her parents had little idea of what
Rating: 3/5 Tolly is enjoying his happy life with his oldest relative, Mrs Oldknow, in her old house Green Knowe, but is feeling a little
Rating: 4/5 Prince Edward VI and pauper-boy Tom Canty swap clothes for a bit of fun. But when the Prince marches outside in Tom’s rags
Rating: 2/5 Hugo’s father, a clock-maker, died in a tragic father. Hugo was then looked after by his uncle, a nasty inebriate who fixed the
Rating: 1/5 Sam Gribley wants to have a go at running away, like many boys of his age. His father, laughing, says “Yes,” and expects
We spent this Christmas at Daddy’s house! Daddy came to pick us up on the 21st and we went home on the 28th. We have
Rating: 3/5 Bruno has been told that Jews are hateful, disgusting, plotting, despicable vermin, scum beyond all measure. But when he meets one trapped in
Rating: 3/5 It’s 1899 and Calpurnia Virginia Tate, nicknamed Callie Vee, forms a passion in nature and the study of it. Her grandfather, Captain Walter