Review: Stolen

Lucy Christopher – Stolen

stolen

  • Publisher: Recorded Books
  • Duration: 8 hours 39 minutes
  • Part of a series: No
  • Summary: „Told in a letter to her captor by 16-year-old Gemma, Stolen explores the influence that a really wild and remote space can have on the inner development of a young woman.Gemma, a British city-living teenager, is kidnapped while on holiday with her parents. Her kidnapper, Ty, takes her to the wild land of outback Australia. To Gemma’s city-eyes, the landscape is harsh and unforgiving and there are no other signs of human life for hundreds of kilometres in every direction. Here, there is no escape. Gemma must learn to deal with her predicament, or die trying to fight it.Ty, a young man, has other ideas for her. His childhood experience of living in outback Australia has forever changed the way he sees things. But he too has been living in the city; Gemma’s city. Unlike Gemma, however, he has had enough. In outback Australia he sees an opportunity for a new kind of life; a life more connected to the earth. He has been watching and learning about Gemma for many years; when he kidnaps her, his plan finally begins to take shape. But Ty is not a stereotypical kidnapper and, over time, Gemma comes to see Ty in a new light, a light in which he is something more sensitive. The mysteries of Ty, and the mystery of her new life, start to take hold. She begins to feel something for her kidnapper when he wakes screaming in the night. Over the time spent with her captor, Gemma’s appreciation of him develops …but is this real love, or Stockholm Syndrome?“  Quelle: http://www.lucychristopher.com/stolen
  • Review: I liked this book very much and can only recommend it to you – it is a very special story about a girl and its kidnapper, that shows that sometime things aren´t that easy they seem to be. Gemma is a wonderful girl an sometime I almost cried when I read her story and thoughts.
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Review: Elmer and Super El

David McKee -Elmer and Super El

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  • Publisher: AndersenPress
  • number of pages: 21
  • Part of a series: Yes, there are many other books with Elmer.
  • Contents: One morning Elmer hears Super El shooting „oh no“ and looking for help. He needs to visit his aunt without being seen by another animal. But Elmer has an idea…
  • Review:I love Elmer and I love this story about him, too. I think there will be no story with this wonderful elephant which I don´t like. As alway the pictures are beautiful and the story very nice with a little surprise. And like we know it from the other stories about Elmer he teaches us again what it means to be special and unique. I am sure, that adults and children will love this book in the same way, so I can only recommend this book to you.
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Review: Elmer´s special day

David McKee – Elmer´s special day 

Elmer special

  • Publisher: AndersenPress
  • number of pages: 32
  • Part of a series: Yes, there are many other books with Elmer.
  • Contents: Elmer has an idea for the parade and so it becomes a real special day when al the animals decorate themselves.
  • Review:I love Elmer and I love this story about him, too. I think there will be no story with this wonderful elephant which I don´t like. As alway the pictures are beautiful and the story very nice with a little surprise. And like we know it from the other stories about Elmer he teaches us again what it means to be special and unique. I am sure, that adults and children will love this book in the same way, so I can only recommend this book to you.
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Review: Find out about the United Kingdom

Gavin Mortimer – Find out about the United Kingdom

Find out about UK

  • Publisher: Barrons Educ Series
  • number of pages: 64
  • Part of a series: Yes, there are many other books of the „find out about“ series.
  • Contents:
    Many information about the UK you find in this book, each topic on a double page.
  • Review: I bought the book during my trip to Glasgow last summer. As an teacher in primary school with english as an subject I had to by it, when I saw it in the shop. And I love the book very much and my pupils, too. It is great for exploring the UK without being there. So I recommend it to all of you, who want am easy but wonderful book for children telling them about the UK. And it is good for adults, too :-).
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Review: Mr Plug the Plumber

Allan Ahlberg  – Mr Plug the Plumber

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  • Publisher: Puffin
  • number of pages: 24
  • Part of a series: No. But there are many books in the „happy families“ series oft Puffin books.
  • Contents:
    Mrs Plug isn´t a normal woman. The has an unusual job – she is a plumber.
  • Review: I bought the book during my trip to Glasgow last summer. It was pure chance to find it on a bargain counter. The story is wonderful because of being so different. Mrs Plug is such a great person. Children can learn that they don´t have to be „normal“ to be happy and that some people have unusual jobs. So they maybe try to find out what they really want to become and are honest to themselves. I can recommend it to all people, children and adults, especial teachers in primary schools.
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Review: Elmer and Rose

David McKee – Elmer and Rose

  • Publisher: Andersen Press
  • number of pages: 32
  • Part of a series: Yes — there are many books with Elmer the Patchwork Elephant.
  • Contents:
    Elmer is a special elephant, he isn´t grey, he is blue, red, yellow, white and many other colors: the Patchwork Elephant. One day he and his cousin Wilbur are told to come to their grandpa. He tells them about Rose, a little pink elephant, who has gotten lost. Elmer an Wilbur help her to find back to her herd and find out that normal is only the way you think of it.
  • Review:
    I love all books of this wonderful elephant, but this one I think is the one I like best, because of Rose and the special way her story is told. In my opinion it is a good book to teach children what being different means and that it is only in the way we think. The pictures of the book are as  beautiful as in all the other books on Elmer and make you like it even more (if that is possible). I can recommend it to all people, not only the little ones.
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