It's been covered before, kid moves house and school and worries about making friends. It's endearing but perhaps a little confusing for the youngest readers as the main character makes out he is searching for his friend Neville and other neighbourhood kids offer to help. Turns out the main chara...
What a lot of fun this one was...the words are amazing...stupendous...massive. The story is a delight. The odious ogre scares everyone...he takes handsfull of towns people for a snack, like the Cyclops. He has no conscience and loves to frighten others. He has an exceedingly large vocabulary beca...
I absolutely adore Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth, so I really, really, really wanted to like this book. I didn't, and, more importantly, my six-year-old son didn't. The writing felt as changeable as Sourpuss/Sweetie Pie's mood. Maybe that was deliberate, but it made it difficult for a ch...