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 […]