Vicky

I very much enjoyed reading Tina Turbin's children's book 'Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy' which is beautifully illustrated by Aija Jasuna. The bright colours will attract and entertain the reader in the 4-8 year old age group.

Who can not like Danny a very bright green dragon with multi colour spots and red boots, who makes friends with Jimmy who finds his shell on the sea shore and there upon begins his adventure with this little boy and his family.

A charming book that will please any child and adult reading it too them.

I found it utterly fascinating to read What's Up With Max, because the Medikidz take him up into the lung part of Mediland and show him everything to do with his asthma.

I learned a great deal from reading this book in how peope can get asthma - how to work with it and the drugs that can help the person. Sometimes parents and even the child don't realise that because the chest is not bubbling with a chest infection that something is wrong. The child struggles and nobody takes notice of what's happening.

Having Leukaemia is frightening especially if you are a child, but here everything is explained in a clear picture story. There is an immense amount of detailed information that has to be given in an easily understandable way, and Medikidz are brilliant at it.

I recommend this graphic book for both children and adults.

As an allergy sufferer myself I found this graphic book brilliant in describing what is going on and why. These graphic faction books are an excellent way to get important information over to both children and adults - in this case a peanut allergy.

I love the way the child who has the problem is transported to Mediland on a planet shaped like a human body and shown around the afflicted part but from the inside of the body!

I recommend this book to everyone who has an allergy because the explanations are very clear and easy to understan.

Today if you are overweight you get the full weight of the doctors and the press and for a child it is doubly so, but the Medikidz come to the rescue of Paris who is in a clothes shop and having problems because everything is too small.

I love the way the Medikidz bicker among themselves and then suddenly spring into action and in this book it is Gastro who has a lot to answer to! The humour is excellent but the advice is serious and very very helpful to both the child and the parent.

Well the press certainly went into hyper drive with Swine Flu, but for a child it is quite frightening especially if you are being told that people around you are going to die if they catch so much as a sniffle.

Here with the help of the Medikidz Superheroes Jasmine is reassured that she will be fine, but our heroes show her quite graphically who's who in the immune system helping her to fight off the Swine Flu virus.

The graphics here are second to none and the humour helps when empowering kids with relevant knowledge so that they understand their situation.

'WE' is the latest offering from John Dickinson and is quite different from his previous historical novel and medieval fantasy trilogy - and I have to say that it is quite brilliant.

It is based on four people who have been sent to a space station on a far off moon, many millions of miles from Earth to do research, and off course to see if there is any intelligent life out there!

The Excellent Way is a very un American book, written by American preacher RT Kendall, and I guess the reason for that, is that he was Minister of Westminster Chapel for 25 years and has been thoroughly Anglicised!

This is a brilliant, colourful children's book telling the story of evolution through one very bright and intelligent fish, who decides he wants to walk on land, or rather the sand on the beach!

The witty writing is incorporated in the pictures as a part of the whole which makes it very organic. It is a good way to learn about how mammals evolved from the sea - but did man come the same way!

I loved the home made foot shaped boots on the fish's feet and as an illustrator Chris Wormell has created a very exciting book for young children and one that I highly recommend.

'What's Up With John?' tells the story of John who has scoliosis of his spine. The Medikidz zoom in and take him to Mediland and onto the top of a huge skeleton - or to be precise the top of the vertabral column - where he is shown everything to do with his scoliosis and what can be done, including surgery if necessary. This one is pretty close to my heart becuase I have a friend who has a severe scoliosis but refused surgery - it didn't stop her do anything and yes she went onto to have 2 strapping sons and a daughter!