Ariel Bradley, Spy for General Washington does a very good job of teaching a little bit of history to the kids while inculcating some good reading habits in them. The book also inspires the children to feel patriotic and serve their motherland (in this case The United States of America) like Ariel Bradley did when […]
A Tale of Two Daddies | Vanita Oelschlager | Book Review
A Tale of Two Daddies is meant for children who have just started reading and are trying to hone their reading skills. The language is simple and easy to understand. There is a maximum of two lines per page and all of the text is written in a rhyming way. For example, a page reads […]
A Tale of Two Mommies | Vanita Oelschlager | Book Review
A Tale of Two Mommies is a sweet little book meant for children who have just started reading. There are maximum one or two lines per page. The language is also simple and easy to understand. PAGES: 24 AGE: 4-6 years The book is really small with just about 24 pages. I got to read […]
Sing Freedom! | Vanita Oelschlager | Book Review
Sing Freedom is meant for children between the ages of 7 to 10 years. PAGES: 36 AGE: 7-10 years The book has a total of 36 pages. Most of these pages contain 4 to 6 lines of text each. The language is kept simple and understandable. All the pages are accompanied by beautiful illustrations. STORY: […]
Manga Classics: Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | Book Review
ADAPTATION: 3.5/5 ILLUSTRATION: 3.5/5 APPEAL: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Manga Classics: Great Expectations is my second one in the Manga Classics series initiative which attempts to popularise the age-old timeless classics among a new set of readers by adapting them in the Manga format. This initiative started by Udon Entertainment and Morpheus Publishing is indeed […]
Manga Classics: Emma | Jane Austen | Book Review
ADAPTATION: 3.5/5 ILLUSTRATION: 4/5 APPEAL: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Jane Austen does not need any introductions as she is the one who has inspired most readers of yesteryears and today, and one who will continue to be a source of inspiration for the readers of the future. It is true that since her time, the […]
The Great Snapping Turtle Adventure | Susan Yaruta-Young | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 The Great Snapping Turtle Adventure is one of those children’s book that I recently had the pleasure to read while being on my children’s fiction spree. It is a cute little story of a short little crabbing trip which stepdad Fred takes his […]
Danny Chaucer’s Flying Saucer | Christopher Peter | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 After many days, I finally got my hands on a children’s fiction. Thanks to Netgalley which obliged me with a digital copy in exchange for an honest review. Now, to all the adults out there who are probably twitching their noses or rolling […]
Wilderness | Roddy Doyle | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 After many days I had the opportunity to read a children’s novel. I was looking through my unread shelf and I came across Wilderness by the author Roddy Doyle. Doyle who is best known for bagging the Booker prize in 1993 for his […]
Get into Gear, Stilton! | Geronimo Stilton | Book Review
STORY: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 COVER: 4/5 ILLUSTRATIONS: 4/5 FUN QUOTIENT: 3/5 I am reviewing a book for the first time and I am also reading Geronimo Stilton for the first time. I think that this book Get into Gear, Stilton! is very funny and I like it very much. It has twists at two points in […]
Raja Raja and the Swapped Sacks | Natasha Sharma | Book Review
STORY: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 COVER: 4.5/5 ILLUSTRATION: 3/5 FUN QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Raja Raja and the Swapped Sacks has a wonderful concept of mixing history with mystery. The book, very skillfully, makes use of the story and characters to help the children learn a little bit of history as well. Since I myself am an adult, […]
Let’s Go Time Travelling! | Subhadra Sen Gupta | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3.5/5 RELEVANCE: 3.5/5 RESEARCH: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Even after spending hours after hours cramming up historical events and dates in our schooling years, how much of history do we really remember today? Out of sight is out of mind and history never did occur in our sight. So, is learning and knowing it […]