This December, we have been busy reading two fantastic books from Scholastic Book Club: Lost in the Snow and Mystery at the Ice Hotel. These books are just perfect for my children aged seven and nine. Ms C loves animals and her favourite pets are cats. Lost in the Snow is just the book for her.
This is the Special 10th Anniversary edition Lost in the Snow and comes with a sparkly cover. This is our first time reading this book by Holly Webb. She has written a series of animal stories which we are very much looking forward to reading!
Fluff is the main character in this book. She is the smallest and weakest of the farm kittens, but she surprises everyone with her strength and spirit, and soon she and her brothers and sisters are ready for new homes. While her siblings are adopted, nobody seems to want Fluff, and after a heartbreaking encounter with a little girl called Ella, she gives up on her dream of a loving home and flees the farm out into the big scary world. This is very easy to read and understand by young children. Ms C enjoyed reading it with big print. She loves that it has a happy ending.
Mystery at the Ice Hotel is written by Sara Grant. This is the second book from the Chasing Danger series. After surviving a kidnapping attempt in the Maldives, Chase and Mackenzie are off to the Ice Hotel in Iceland! But as soon as they arrive, accidents start to occur that seem targeted to scare or worse, seriously hurt the guests. When a body shows up frozen in an ice bed, it’s up to the two girls to figure out who is behind the attacks before anyone else gets hurt! This is an action-pack adventure about these two young girls. This book is suitable for older children. Once he got over the fact the heroes are girls, my son really enjoyed the book because it’s of the exciting nature of the story. He loves the Ice Hotel idea hopes to visit Iceland one day.
Disclosure: We received the samples for the purposes of writing this review however all thoughts and opinions remain our own.
Beauty and the beast
tom’s midnight garden
Cinderella
crummy mummy by anne fine is my daughters favourite .
We love so many books, but all the Roald Dahl ones are wonderful, and I love ‘What the ladybird heard’.
The jumblebum beast 🙂
We love going on a bear hunt, was brillaint to see the film at christmas.
Malory Towers series by Enid blyton, just loved them
My girls absolutely love the Roald Dahl stories, their current favourite is The Witches.
From my generation it would be The Tale of Georgie Grub, but there are so many excellent books for youg readers now that I wouldn’t be able to choose.
Kensuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo 🙂
My children love The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson.
The BFG is very good xx
My favourite book was The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Matilda is brill
Gruffalo
Ann of Green Gables
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is my all time favourite children’s book.
Have to be any of the famous five books ..loved them when I was a kid
Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton
I loved the Jolly Postman as a child.
Tom Thumb
Winnie The Pooh
My favourite kids books were the happy families books, I think my favourite was Mrs suds laundrette
The BFG by Roald Dahl is one of my most favourite books x
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Jolly Postman
The Faraway Tree and then The Famous Five books. After that A Horse Called September 🙂
heidi
The Paper Dolls
Winnie The Pooh
Winnie the witch
The Railway Children
I loved the Twits by Roald Dahl
The Gruffalo
I loved the Famous Five books, nothing like getting stuck into a decent adventure 🙂 x
Matilda, which is also our little Matilda’s favourite.
The Gruffalo
The Jolly Postman
My favourite book was my grannie’s favourite – Wanted a King by Maggie Browne
The Chistmasaurus by Tom Fletcher!
The animals of farthing wood.
Charlottes web
Mr Magnolia 🙂
Our children and now our grandchildren all love Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
The Gruffalo
The gruffalo
The Magic Faraway Tree.
Roald Dahl – Matilda
were going on a bear hunt
The Screaming Staircase it is brilliant
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The secret garden
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Tiger Who Came To Tea is mine 🙂
I love the Anne of Green Gables books
My favourite book as a child was James and the Giant Peach.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was my favourite book as a child. All the magic took me away from what wasn’t the best upbringing.
the lion the witch and the wardrobe is my fav
The Gruffalo is my favourite children book.
Black Beauty, always wanted a horse
Mine has always been ‘Alice in Wonderland’ but my little fella loves ‘The Gruffalo’. x
the magic faraway tree x
The Jolly Postman
I had a favourite called The Big Red Balloon 🙂
Best to read a loud is “We’re going on a bear hunt” …. best to read to myself is Roald Dahls Revolting Rhymes ….
i loved the enid blyton books x
Enid Blyton – The Magic Faraway Tree
The Gruffalo
My daughter loves the Malory Towers series
Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree!
Any of the Famous Five books
far away tree
Carrie’s War was my favourite 🙂
Ballet Shoes
Tom browns school boys
The worst witch
The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe
matilida
the magic faraway tree
I was Enid Blyton fan but loved reading Gruffalo with grandchildren
Charlie and the chocolate factory
i love the peter rabbit books
My so like all the Mog books.
we love to read the owl babies together, very sweet book x
I loved ‘A series of unfortunate events’ when I was younger!
We all love Room on the Broom x
I love The enormous crocodile by Roald Dahl
ELMER is my favourite book!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl is my favourite children’s book.
I like the Gruffalo and Stick man
The Faraway Tree
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
The secret garden
I love Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
Hop Skip and Jump by Enid Blyton…. also loved The Secret Seven and Famous Five books
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
When I was a kid It was the Water Babies, but as an adult I love the stick man
The treasure Hunters by Enid Blyton
green eggs and ham xx
Anything by Julia Donaldson and/or Axel Scheffler. I’ve just bought my niece both sets.
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
Spot the Dog. I enjoyed reading Spot the dog books such as Spot goes to the Zoo etc to children when I worked in Children’s Nursery. They are great books for little children.
georges marvellous medicine
The Secret Seven Series
The Jolly Postman
We love the Julia Donaldson books – Cave Baby is our favourite at the moment.
Stick Man
I love Topsy and Tim books
The Hungry Caterpillar
We all love the Famous Five books
The Jolly Postman
Love Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
It has to be the hungry caterpillar
i love the BFG book x
love any of the Enid Blyton Famous 5 and secret 7 stories
we like lost in snow book
I like the Gruffalo
we love enid blyton especially secret seven
Charlottes web. I can remember the teacher reading it to us and I had to get my own copy
famous five
So many great kids books, our current favourite is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (can you tell we’re working our way through Roald Dahl’s books)
Matilda.x
Pass the Jam, Jim!