Jayne

This book is written about how a father deals with the death of his son Stephen who was killed by a terroist whilst on active duties as a Special Branch officer in the police in America.

Mr Oakes senior flies into the state where the press conference is to be held and is asked the question: "how do you feel about your son's killer?" His response is to say he forgives the killer totally and utterly without anger because, her understands that if God forgives us we must forgive others including his son's killer.

This amazing book takes the author back to find her friend from the University of Beijing some 30+ years after leaving the country.

She returns because she wants to get forgiveness from her friend Yin Luoyi who she believes she betrayed to the Mao Communists and that Lu Yin has suffered because of her betrayal.

Jan Wong went back to Beijing long before her boys were born but this time she is going with her husband, a native chinese man, and their children.

The Planet in Trouble is part of the series in the books under the banner of Horrible Geography Handbooks.

The back Cover says it all - What can YOU do to save YOUR planet? and then it asks the following three questions.

1.  Get on the trail of your Carbon Footprint?

2.  Try some rubbish ways to watch your waste?

3.  Run a car on Chocolate or dead flies?

With these perilous planet facts, earth saving tips and eco friendly ideas for going green will it help you to do all you can to save our world?

Main characters Henry, Lewis and Jack play a game called Tauronia which is supposed to be a secret, and thought up by the their Aunt Thea.  But they play it anyway in the playground without others really knowing what they are up to!!

But a goody two shoes comes to their school in the guise of Dahlia and wants them to stop playing nasty games - she moves in next door to aunt Thea and discovers what the game is really about.  She manages to infiltrate their game  and chaos ensues.

This book contains two more horrible stories about Matt & Dave's character "YUCK" - one of the most disgusting children on the planet. But Kids Love do Him!!

The two stories are: Yuck's Abominable Burpblaster and Yuck's Remote Control Revenge

Where ever Yuck is - he causes chaos, as shown by these wonderfully illustrated stories that are a brilliant read for kids. Nigel Baines illustrations just bring the whole thing to life in a BIG BIG way. Definitely a book to recommend.

This is a perfect follow-up to the original book on Charley Boorman and Ewan McGreggor's book the Long Way down.  Why do I say this?Because it is a wonderfully photographic volume of the same trip.

There were so many amazing photos taken and filmed on that trip - many will have been seen on the six week evening showing on television of their trip going the long way down through Africa.

A wonderful book about a young child who moves into a large house at the end of the town.

This little girl is not scared at all, and as halloween comes around she finds out the house she lives in is full of ghosts and spooks, but to her this is not a problem.

Children will love this book which is printed in orange and black throughout, except for the ghosts who are  depicted in white.  A fantastic simple book that makes great fun of a subject that some kids are scared of and book for hallloween before trick and treating starts.

I got my copy of A Mighty Heart and read the whole thing the same day! I would definitely recommend that people read Mariane's book rather than rely on the film that has been made to tell Daniel's story. The story defines the power of the human spirit from the the first line right till the last page,