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Lionboy: The Chase by Zizou Corder

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Be prepared to be hooked onto Lionboy: The Chase like a fish on a fishing line.

Charlie Ashanti is contented, for now. Relaxing luxuriously under the care of King Boris from Bulgaria – why shouldn’t he be? But Charlie still has two missions to accomplish, finding his parents and taking six breath snatching lions back to their homeland. Imprisoned by Edward, King Boris’ security guard Charlie and the lions, now accompanied by Primo, a sabre toothed creature constructed from fosilised DNA, devise an escape plan that involves many more people than you could imagine…

With an original setting that rivals even the Alex Rider series ( you can read my reviews on them), Lionboy: The Chase has a plot as wide a room, and is the second book in the Lionboy series by Zizou Corder. There are numerous changes to where Charlie has to travel to meet his parents, and each time he goes to the wrong place, my mind says ‘No! No! Charlie, your parents are in that place!’ To conclude that, I would comment that Zizou Corder has done an excellent job in making me feel different emotions, in this instance, annoyed for Charlie because he went to the wrong place so he couldn’t see his parents as they weren’t in that place.

Lionboy: The Chase by Zizou Corder

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

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Ivan is a gorilla. He was brought from the wild into the Exit8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. When a tragedy strikes and Ivan makes a promise he knows will be very hard to fulfill, art still manages to take over Ivan’s life. Will Ivan ever take his rightful place as a mighty silverback?

The One and Only Ivan is a story that you can just pick up and enjoy. I think the mixture of different emotions is really just breathtaking, but although I would definitely recommend this to anyone, I personally prefer books with wider plots, like The Expeditioners (you can read my review on this). I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did!

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

The Wind In The Willlows by Kenneth Grahame

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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame has produced a wonder. Each time I read this book its descriptions of characters, food and especially homes enthrall me. As this tale doesn’t use a lot of adventure, the animals’ wide personalities help to keep it alive! The glorious use  of personification has really hooked me. For instance, the kind and amiable Mr. Badger actually fighting with a sword! You could not, should not, would not miss out on reading this story. Though I admit that this isn’t exactly a Hitler’s Angel (which you can read my review on) kind of book with tons of adventure, Mr Toad‘s funny and conceited personality is enough to have you in stitches, even in the hospital! If you do read this book, (which I really hope you will) then I hope you enjoy it as much as I have when I read it time and time again.

The Wind In The Willlows by Kenneth Grahame

The Animals Of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann

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The Animals of Farthing Wood

This book is amazingly enthralling! Its the story of how the animals who live in Farthing Wood survive when humans start chopping down the trees of Farthing Wood, and on top of the animals homes on the verge of being destroyed, a drought comes and all available streams and lakes dry up. So, the threatened animals decide to leave their homeland and begin on a long tiresome journey of trekking to White Deer Park, a nature reserve. But every step the party takes leades them closer to a fountain of danger and adventure! This book is rather like a puppet, when the puppet lifts its arm up to wave, the book leads you into its dark cover of enchantment, when the puppet takes a step things start to get a bit better, but when the foot comes down again, things go back to the concrete hard normal. When the puppet opens its mouth to speak,  you are swallowed up into the capturing pages of the book. I am loving reading this book, as I can use my dictionary to find out a lot of new words!  My edition of this book has a front cover that is beautiful, just like the words inside!

The Animals Of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann