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A book review is just one person's reaction to a book they have read. Book reviewers try to give honest feedback about a book they've read, and they do it in different ways. 1. Choose a book you think you can write about. It may not be your favourite book, but it needs to be one you can describe to others.

2. Read the book. If you read it a while back, read it again, just before you write your review.

3. Think about what you've read. Try to answer SOME of these questions in whole sentences:

//What was the book about?//

 What was your favourite part of the story? Why did you like it?

 Who is/are the main characters? Tell us something about them. What happens to them in the story?

 What sort of book was it? Was it a picture book, a chapter book, a fantasy book, a nonfiction book for sport fans?

 If there are illustrations, how did they help tell the story?

 Did you like the book? Why or why not? What was good about it? Did any parts make you laugh? Which ones? Did you feel as if you were looking through the main character's eyes?

 What sort of people would like this book?

4. Look at the sentences you have written and see if they can make the bones of your book review. You might need to add some more.

5. Write an interesting starting sentence for your review. Some people like to start with a question. Other reviewers like to start with the book facts: author, illustrator, and publisher to make it easy for others to find the book.

6. Put the sentences you've written into the order that seems best to you. Add any words or sentences you think might make it clearer.

7. Read your book review aloud to yourself and check for spelling and punctuation.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8. Ask someone else to read your review and get their opinion of it. Make any changes you think you need.

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<span style="color: #d51b1b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">SIMPLE PICTURE BOOK REVIEWS

**I Will Never Not Ever Eat A Tomato - Lauren Child** [[image:i_will_never_not_ever_eat_a_tomato.jpg width="154" height="172"]]
Author Lauren Child delivers a delightful tale of the picky-eater. Lola is a very fussy eater. She thinks carrots are for rabbits and peas are "too small and too green." Lola informs us all of the foods that she despises and finishes passionately pronouncing "And I absolutely will never not ever eat a tomato." Lola's older sister Charlie has an idea to get Lola to eat the foods that she claims to despise. Charlie tells Lola that the orange things on the table are not carrots, but "orange twiglets from Jupiter" and peas are in fact "green drops from Greenland.

**Princess Smarty Pants - Babette Cole** [[image:princess_smarty_pants width="166" height="166"]]
Princess Smartypants is commanded by her parents against her will to find a husband and get married. She'd rather live happily with her pets. The Princess sets tasks for her horde of potential husbands which they all fail miserably as the gleeful Princess looks on. This is until Prince Swashbuckle appears. He accomplishes all of the challenges with resourcefulness and a royal flourish, and is rewarded with a kiss from Her Highness. He is then transformed into a gigantic warty toad. When word gets out, Princess Smartypants loses her appeal and so lives happily ever after.

**Old Tom - Leigh Hobs** [[image:oldtom.jpg width="152" height="179"]]
Angela Throgmorton is perfectly happy living alone, until a very scruffy-looking kitten is left on her doorstep. She names her new kitten Old Tom, and tries to bring him up to be polite and well behaved. Unfortunately, the cat quickly gets out of control-frightening guests, destroying furniture, and generally creating chaos. She finally decides to kick him out of the house. At first, both are happy with their new freedom. Angela has a pristine house once more and Tom has many exciting places to explore. However, the outside world is cold and Old Tom is soon living in a trash can, hungry and alone. Angela, meanwhile, finds her orderly, empty house very lonely. When Old Tom is picked up by the animal pound, Angela sees his picture on the news and the two are happily reunited.

<span style="color: #003dff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">BOOKS FOR BOYS

**Just Disgusting - Andy Griffiths** [[image:just-disgusting-andy-griffiths.jpg width="128" height="190"]]
A great mechanism for getting young boys interested in reading. Griffiths' intention is to disgust everyone around him using the likes of dead fish, mysterious brown blobs, flesh eating zombies, and brussel sprouts. Each story seems to be more and more disgusting as Griffiths effectively amuses, annoys and makes readers as they wade their way through his stories.

**The Day My Bum Went Psycho - Andy Griffiths** [[image:day_my_bum_went_psycho width="160" height="160"]]
The book focuses on a boy Zach Freeman, whose bum is constantly detaching itself from his body. One night he decides to follow his bum as it runs away from him. In following his bum Zach discovers some dark secrets that will threaten the world as we know it. He uncovers a plot that will see the bums take over the world. He discovers that the bums plan to create a huge, world-wide fart by building up a massive quantity of methane gas in the "Bumcano". When the Bumcano blows, all humans will be unconscious. While they are unconscious, the bums will seize their chance and switch places with their heads. Zach with the help of the Bumcatcher and his daughter Eleanor must work to prevent the Bumpocalypse.

**The Adventures of Captain Underpants - Dav Pilkey** [[image:captain_underpants width="143" height="206"]]
The Adventures of Captain Underpants is a superhero spoof about two misbehaving grade four boys named George and Harold who have a love of committing pranks. Their mean school principal Mr. Krupp videotapes the two boys setting up one of their pranks and threatens to expose them. The fortune of the boys changes when they are able to hypnotize Krupp, turning him into Captain Underpants. The boys have their hands full when Captain Underpants escapes and begins chasing bad guys in his underwear. It is up to George and Harold to protect Captain Underpants so that he does not endanger himself.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">BOOKS FOR GIRLS

Utterly Me Clarice Bean - Lauren Child [[image:utterly_me_Clarice_Bean.jpg width="175" height="233"]]
Clarice and her best friend Betty Moody are working on a school project when suddenly Betty doesn't return to school. Her teacher then pairs Clarice with Karl, the worst boy in the school much to Clarice's dismay. Clarice soon discovers that Karl has some good ideas and is not a bad guy. Clarice takes solace in reading about a girl detective Ruby Redfort, who Clarice considers to have the perfect life. These books inspire Clarice to use her own investigative skills to help understand her own family and to help Karl who was wrongly accused of stealing a trophy cup. Eventually Clarice's best friend Betty Moody returns to school from Russia only to feel left out as things have changed whilst she has been gone. The girls work together and build up their friendship again.

The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants - Ann Brashers [[image:sisterhood_of_pants width="122" height="195"]]
A pair of thrift shop jeans is the central item that keeps four close friends emotionally connected during the first summer that they spend physically apart. Each girl takes turns trying on the jeans despite being very different sizes and builds. The girls discover that the pants have a magical quality that enables the pants to fit perfectly on each girl making them look sexy, long-legged and feel as confident as a teenager can feel. The girls decide to share the pants over the summer taking turns on who will wear them and utilize their magical powers. Each girl is affected by the pants in some way with four distinct stories developing and being told in a brilliant contemporary style. Like the pants, the reader bounces back and forth amongst the unfolding stories

Terrier: The Legend of Beka Cooper - Temora Pierce [[image:beka_cooper width="131" height="193"]]
Orphaned Beka Cooper's story is told through a series of journal entries making for an engaging read. Beka is a trainee cop in the Provost's Guard. Having spent half her life living in slums, she is driven to do what is right and see justice prevail. Paired with two of the best Guards in the organization and aided by her own gifts of magic, Beka learns her job, makes friends with two mages and a thief, and uncovers two serial killers who prey on the poor and unnoticed. The book promises to keep readers enthralled and on the edge of their seats.

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