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Book choice for Christmas
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| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | The Amber Spyglass | |||||||||
| by J.K. Rowling Magical feats and spells, fantastic charms and startling metamorphoses, conjuring exploits and comic horror phenomena pack the Harry Potter adventures... |
The Amber Spyglass,
the long-awaited third installment of Pullman’s His Dark Materials
trilogy... |
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| The Dare Game | Eloise | |||||||||
| by Jacqueline Wilson Any adult reader will guess that Tracy's Mum is a prostitute and her foster mum a lesbian; a child reader will not spot these references because Wilson has a genius for conveying tricky material only to those readers who can handle it... |
Kay Thompson's Eloise, allegedly based on the young Liza Minelli (among others) and brilliantly drawn by Hilary Knight... |
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| The Giggler Treatment | The Philosophy Files | |||||||||
| The spectacle of a celebrated novelist seeking, and failing, to entertain children can be deliciously cruel. Left to mind the kids while the parents go out, the lionised Famous Author flounders through his old party tricks like a bachelor uncle... |
Steven Law's Philosophy Files is a breezy but serious attempt to make philosophy accessible. Thoughtful over-12s will enjoy Law's cheerful, manly narrative... |
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| Kit's Wilderness | The Seeing Stone | |||||||||
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There is a wilderness between the houses and the river where an ancient coal pit once stood. In this wilderness, Kit meets Askew, with his wild dog, Jax... |
The Seeing Stone is a
beautifully written, superbly researched and wonderfully descriptive
tapestry... |
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| Helen Oxenbury's sunny Home Counties-style Alice, in her sundress and sneakers, looks meeker than the argumentative seven-year-old we know from the text, and her companions are cuddly and benign... |
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