Macmillan Children's Books

This is the first book in the Map Maker Monsters series about Hugo and his Uncle Walter who is a Map Maker by trade.

Uncle Walter and Hugo are on a voyage to discover different lands and record their findings. A hiliarous story with Hugo and Savage escaping from different situations as they try to solve the mystery of the Silver Acorn.

I enjoyed this book so much with its assortment of strange characters and the names that they were given.My favourite is Norah Tall becouse he is twelve inches high and has shoes that talk in rhyme.

A fascinating book aimed at the childrens market. Glen Murphy explains topics ranging from burping to climate
change and why it is happening and much more. This is a fun book written in an intelligent and jokey way that
will encourage children to learn about the world about them. I enjoyed it immensely.

A compelling story told from the eyes of a young tribal girl who experiences the 'conquoring' of her homeland by early white explorers.

This is such and enjoyable and very clever book that I actually read it several times over. Emily Gravett is a brilliant artist who seems to know no bounds in her artistery. Here her chameleon is feeling vey blue because he keeps comparing himself with other animals and it is not until you get to the end of the book that our chameleon finds out who he really is!

I more than highly recommend this book that makes you smile as well!

This is one of the funniest children's books that I have ever read! It is about a boy called Jack who has his inherited his grandfather's curse!

Jill Marshall writes so well, her description of Jack's interview at Eton college is hilarious. He is a wonderful character who desperately wnats to be treated the same as his peers, but loves to go to the crypt to visit his ancestors!!

A well plotted book and - brilliant story - a joy to read. Highly recommended.

This was a strange one, not exactly a story book, more in the style of an amusing comic book.

This was an unusual story, a bit like a traditional fable, but enjoyable to read. It reminded me of The Snowman where the little boy's frosty friend has to leave him in the end.

I thought it might not hold my little boy's attention as there were no bright coloured pictures, its all shades of white, blue and grey. But as soon as we'd got to the end of the story he asked for it again, and in fact again after that! It surprised me he liked it so much, he was especially intrigued at the end where Jack Frost disappears through the trees.

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.

'The Thing with Finn' by Tom Kelly is a strange book - but not so strange when you think of what young lads used get up to when they used to play out around the back streets of the villages and towns.

I imagine this story to be set in somewhere in the back streets of Leeds or Sheffield, as seen on the Hovis advert.  I can just see this young lad Finn and his friends trying to wind up the street's manic dog.

What a great book for brothers with older sisters, or the other way around. The older child always seems to know better but, everyone knows that older siblings can be a pain; but they can also be a great support when things go wrong.

I love the way these stories are written and the way the older sister just has to have the last word! But little brother Jake will one day just say the right thing at the right time and he does, much to the shock of his big sister!