Children's Book Reviews

Book Title:
Fish Boy
Book Author:
Chloe Daykin
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Tipperary
This story is about a boy named Billy. He gets bullied by a boy named James and his gang (they joined in fear of getting bullied). He swims nearly every single day. One day a new boy came and stopped the bullying for a few days. Soon after, they became friends. A few days after on one swimming trip. A talking mackerel said Kezdodik.

The next day Billy came to Patrick’s house. He told Patrick about the fish and then felt stupid so he ran out of the house. The next day at school he tried to stay away from Patrick but Patrick caught up to him. He told Billy that believed him and Billy was very relieved. He told Billy that the fish was talking Hungarian. When Billy asked where did the fish learn Hungarian, he said that fish travel. He also said that it was a code and that the other piece of the code is Kesz.
So the next day he went swimming again and the fish came, he said the code and they swam. Billy didn’t need to go up for air since if he touched the fish he got the power to breathe underwater. Billy had lots of fun every time he visited the fish but one day they wanted Billy to stay with them and tried to drown Patrick as he couldn’t swim. Patrick got out alive.
I loved the book and recommend it.
Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant
Book Title:
Ophelia and The Marvelous Boy
Book Author:
Karen Foxlee
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Tipperary
Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy is a story based on the fairy tale, Snow Queen. It is about the same thing, killing the Snow Queen. The difference is the way they do it.
Ophelia and her family are going to a museum because her father has a special job. The reason he got the job was because he was a sword expert. Ophelia finds a room of stone angels and then found a grey door. She went inside to a sea monster mosaic which had another door. She peeked through the keyhole and found another eye staring at her she fell with surprise. The eye belonged to a boy. The boy asked her to help him.
She had to go to the seventh floor carefully without waking up the misery birds, get a key and bring it to him. Next she had to open a box with the key to get another key on the sixth floor. She opened the door with that key.
They were running around the museum to try find a sword that Ophelia was supposed to wield to defeat the snow queen. The boy gets caught; she tries to find him but cannot until the keeper of the boy who was a very nice man at heart but not on the outside tells her where he is. On the way her father gives it to her, not knowing what power it wields. The sword was also very heavy to anyone except from her. The boy was underneath some snow. She fought the snow queen and won
THE END
Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant
Book Title:
Grandpa's Great Escape
Book Author:
David Walliams
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Tipperary
Grandpa’s great escape is a tale about a young boy with a grandpa that was in World War 2 with his legendary spitfire. Grandpa told him stories and one day because of his old age he thought he was in World War 2. They have many adventures including: breaking out of an old folk home which was actually ruled by an evil woman who hired men as nurses and changed their will so she can get the money, breaking in to a museum to get a spitfire and breaking down the wall with a tank, flying with it over restricted air space and had to be shut down, everyone in the town attended the funeral but the boy knew grandpa’s body was not in the coffin as his body had never been found, that night when he was getting ready for bed grandpa flew beside his window. When the boy grew up he had lots of stories to tell his children. I loved the book and recommend that you read it!
Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant
Book Title:
The chocolate factory ghost
Book Author:
David O'Connel
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Tipperary
The chocolate factory ghost is a tale about a boy who finds out that he is related to the world’s best sweet maker and goes on a journey. He is brought to a place where he finds out he is related to the chocolate maker finds out he has inherited all the chocolate makers earthly possessions then, meets a lady that would soon be his enemy. He is given a private note to read. He explores the place he is in and finds a greenhouse with all sorts of strange plants. He read the note, which tells him about a quest that he has to complete. It includes six parts and the seventh part is the journey to the treasure. (I will only tell you about the journey to the seventh part) He only noticed that a girl was hanging from one of the branches from one of the trees after he finished the note and she talked. The next day the girl called a magic expert since that place was full of magic and everyone living there knew there was something strange in that place. Oh and remember that place he was brought to, that place it is called Honeystone Hall and he owns that place now. One day when they had found most of the items that they found after each part of the quest a gargantuar attacked the letter and ripped it and got a spare one. They got to the island a few days later and found dragons that showed them the secret ingredient to the famous fudge they make in the factory as it was missing. I loved the book and recommend that you read it!!!!!!!!!

Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant
Book Title:
The magic finger
Book Author:
Roald dahl
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Tipperary
The magic finger is an exciting tale about a little girl. Whenever she gets angry her finger turns red and she touches the person who made her angry with her hot electric zap that comes out of her finger and strange things start to happen to them. Like the time her teacher gave out to her for not being able to spell a word and called her stupid, she touched her teacher with her zap and she grew giant whiskers out of her face and she grew a huge bushy tail. She used it against the Gregg family because they were hunting just for the joy of it. They were hunting for ducks, that’s when she put the magic finger on them, they turned into ducks, four ducks turned to the size of men and took over the house and the Greggs had to make a nest for the night. The next day the ducks came out with the guns and the Greggs had to swear not to hunt anymore so they did, they turned back and they worshipped the ducks like god.
Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant
Book Title:
DEMON DENTIST
Book Author:
David Walliams
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Tipperary
Demon dentist is a tale about a poor boy and his dad. There is also a demon dentist named Miss Root but I’ll get to that later. The boy is named Alfie. Alfie hates the dentist. He started hating the dentist after an incident that had occurred. It was a simple case of toothache but it ended up in disaster. The dentist was an ancient man named Mr Erstwhile. Despite his good intentions, Mr Erstwhile should have retired many years ago. The dentist looked like a tortoise, an old tortoise at that. The dentist yanked and yanked but the tooth he brought to the dentist to take a look at wouldn’t come out so he called for help. He needed more help so everyone in the waiting room came and helped. After a while the tooth shattered but the pain from the toothache was still there. The dentist took out the wrong tooth!
REPORT
I’m finished that story so I’ll tell you about the story that the book is actually about. Alfie’s school was introduced to Miss Root. She brought sweets that appeared to be sugar-free sweets but were actually packed with sugar.
The next day everyone who had some sweets had toothaches luckily Alfie and a girl (I won’t tell you much about her because that would be spoiling the book) never ate any of the sweets so they didn’t have toothaches. To make it worse for Alfie a social worker came to his house and planned a meeting for the dentist with his dad. Winnie was the name of the social worker. He was supposed to meet up with Winne at 1:30pm. Instead he started a big chase at school. They kept on chasing him that by accident while looking for a place to hide he went into the dentist’s office.
He got all his teeth removed and had to wear fake teeth. A few days after the girl was about to experience that fate too but Alfie stopped the dentist and they got caught. They nearly got their skin melted off them but Winnie and Alfie’s dad rescued them. Alfie’s dad died because of the coal dust from the mine they were in. Winnie adopted Alfie and got married.
I loved this book and recommend it if you’re bored since it makes you more excited every page (I would not recommend it for a bedtime story or reading it before you go to bed).
Star Rating:
★★★★
= Really Good
Book Title:
Rabbit and Bear - A Bite in the Night.
Book Author:
Julian Crough & Jim Field
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Limerick
This book is amazing and you will not want to leave this down for a second.
Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant
Book Title:
Naughty Amelia Jane
Book Author:
Enid Blyton
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Limerick
You will love this book. It full of fun and very entertaining.
Amelia gets up to a lot of mischief - she is very naughty.
Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant
Book Title:
Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone
Book Author:
J. K Rowling
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Clare
I racomend anyone who likes mystery, magic and adventure to read this book. Once I got my hands on it, I couldn't stop reading. The storie is about a boy called Harry Potter who's parents died when he was a baby so now he lives with his terrible aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon and cusin Dudly, but Harry doesn't know what secrets his aunt and uncle know about his parents, and what magic and adventure awaits him in Hogwarts School of Withcraft and Wizardry. Ron Weasly and Hermione Greanger become his friends,and togetherthey go through amazing adventures like a a talking hat,a mountain giant, mysterious teacher, three headed dog,a powerful stone and much, much more.
Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant
Book Title:
Rainbow Magic - Grace the Glitter Fairy
Book Author:
Daisy Meadows
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Kildare
I love reading the books on Rainbow Magic. This I find it interesting and adventurous.
Star Rating:
★★★★
= Really Good
Book Title:
the worlds worst children 3
Book Author:
david walliams
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Dublin
his book are really funny i love them
Star Rating:
★★★★
= Really Good
Book Title:
Endangered Animals
Book Author:
Miles Kelly
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Meath
It was a bit sad because some animals are extinct and it made me want to keep endangered animals and stop people cutting down the homes of animals and killing them.
Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant
Book Title:
The Amazing World of Tom Gates
Book Author:
Liz Pichon
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Dublin
I have read six books in the series of Tom Gates. All the books are very funny and very easy to read. The books are about a boy named Tom Gates and his daily struggles with life and his relationship with his grumpy sister called Delia and his best friend Derek. I would highly recommend the series of books and know that of you start to read one you will want to read them all and not put them down.
I was not such a keen reader at the start of the summer and by the end of the summer I now love to read.
Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant
Book Title:
Foley and Jem
Book Author:
Mary Murphy
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Meath
I think that the book is good. I was a little sad that Jem stayed at Mars.
Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant
Book Title:
Rose Rivers
Book Author:
Jacqueline Wilson
Age Group For This Book:
Age 7-9
Review From:
Meath
Rose Rivers lives in a big London house with her father,mother,six brothers and sisters and seven servants. She loves to study and really wants to go to boarding school like her twin brother but she is not allowed to go.She makes two new friends but her parents think neither are suitable:Her fathers gypsy friend Paris Walker and the new nursery maid Clover Moon.
Star Rating:
★★★★★
= Brilliant