Book Reviews by Black & White Inc. Book Club ...

The Adventures of Captain Underpants - The First Epic Novel by Dav Pilky

 George Beard and Harold Hutchins are the best of friends. They live next door to each other. They are in the same fourth grade class at elementary school. They amazingly created Captain Underpants, using the power of hypnosis - WOW!



Throughout the story Captain Underpants, superhero, has many epic adventures. My favourite part of the story is when two robots break out of a rare crystal shop with a diamond. They also happen to be driving a van with Captain Underpants's cape caught at the back corner and George and Harold holding on to his feet, while speeding on skate boards. I liked this part of the story because it was EXTREMELY funny!

Captain underpants is a comedy, fantasy, action chapter book with illustrations.

Ryan, Room 13

The One and Only Ivan! By Katherine Applegate

 If you love stories with friendship, bravery and amazing animals then you would want to read this one! Ivan is a silverback gorilla that lives in a mall at Exit 8. All day Ivan sits in his domain and watches TV or eats bananas. Ivan's best friends are an elephant called Stella and a street dog called Bob. Half way in the story a little elephant comes and joins Ivan, Stella and Bob. Her name is Ruby. One night Stella's leg was hurting and made Ivan promise to take care of Ruby and find her a better home.

This is an amazing book that I could read a million times. I give this book five stars!

Lillie, Room 5

Book Trailer for The One and Only Ivan

Wow, it sounds like I'll need my tissue box handy for this one ...

I have one more book review to type up, so do pop in again tomorrow.

And Black & White Inc. members, if you would like your book review up in time for the holidays, please hand it in to me tomorrow. You are doing such a great job sharing your reading experiences.

Thanks, Kate.

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Operation Bunny! 

By Sally Garnder and illustrated by David Roberts

Operation Bunny is a story about a little girl named Emily Vole who is adopted by the rich Dashwoods, who completely despise their next-door neighbour, Miss String and her giant, talking cat, Fidget.

After a few years of Emily's life with the Dashwoods, she realises that she is being used as a slave. One day when the Dashwoods were out, Emily had fallen into Miss String's garden by accident when she was putting out the washing. Emily was very surprised how nice she and Fidget were. Miss String taught Emily how to read, write and speak three other languages.

After days of learning, Miss String showed Emily a set of seventeen magic keys. The keys were jumping up and down all around the living room because their shoes were tied to one another. Once Emily had realised, she quickly untied them and she became keeper of the keys.

Sadly a few weeks later Miss String got run over by a car. The driver of the car said he got distracted from a witch riding a broom stick. The man described her as the same woman who came round from the make-up department. After the day that the woman came over, Emily's little sisters had been acting very strange, almost zombie like. Something was wrong. After a visit from Mr Twizell, Emily escaped with Fidget to stop the witch, who Emily found out was called Harpella. 

On their journey, Harpella was really causing havoc. After she turned a whole train carriage into pink bunnies, it was up to Emily to get to the bottom of operation bunny.

Operation Bunny was one of my favourite books I have ever read. I thought it was a great book because it always kept you on the edge of your seat. It was funny when the people on the train got turned into pink bunnies because they only said one sentence which they repeated. I really thought I was looking through the character's eyes. Operation Bunny is a mystery chapter book. It is an easy read, I didn't find it hard. I recommend this book to anyone.

By Lucy, Room 5

Judy Moody and the Bad Luck Charm - by Megan McDonald

Have you ever looked after a pot bellied pig called PeeGee WeeGee in Washington D.C. ? Judy Moody has. Join Judy Moody, Jessica Finch, PeeGee WeeGee and Stink on an exciting journey. I recommend this book to girls and boys between the ages of 7 to 12. 

By Rebecca, Room 13.
For more information about Judy Moody books, a fan club and activities go to http://www.judymoody.com/

Book reviews by Black & White Inc.

A few of the members of Black & White Inc. book club would like to share their awesome book reviews with you. Reading these reviews makes me want to dive into these books immediately and I hope you will feel the same way ...

The Wolf Princess by Cathryn Constable

How would you like to go on a trip to Russia? Sophie, Delphine and her other friend Marianne travel to Russia but get left on the train and get picked up by Princess Anna Volkonskaya. It's an amazing book and I would rate it a ten out of ten. The thing that makes it amazing is that it is lots of things put into one whole book.

By Stella, Room 5.

Magic Spirit - Tilly's Pony Tails by Olympic medallist, Pippa Funnel.
Illustrated by Jennifer Miles

 Would you save a horse just on the roadside? Bruised with scars and cuts all over its body? Tilly is a normal girl who loves horses. She was adopted and now lives with the Redbrow family. She knows nothing about her past but was left with a horse hair bracelet. Then she meets Magic Spirit, the albino (type of horse) and everything changes, from being a girl gazing at posters of horses to actually being able to touch their shiny coats that feel like silk, as well as grooming and feeding them. But will Magic Spirit ever come out of his barn? This story is probably for 7 - 11 year olds. The book is a chapter book and the pages are brimming with adventure and fun. Enjoy! 

By Jess - Room 15

There is a really cool website for Tilly's Pony Tails fans with reviews, pics, a clubroom and more. http://www.tillysponytails.co.uk/books.asp?book=magicspirit

I will be posting more book reviews tomorrow night, so do drop by again. And please post constructive feedback (nice, friendly positive comments) because we'll be checking out the blog at book club next term and we do hope we'll have some encouragement to keep reading books and reviewing them for all the readers in the school to enjoy! 

PS - Not all of the books reviewed will necessarily be available in the school library, but I am sure you should be able to get hold of them through Auckland's extensive library network.

Kate

Book Reviews

Early in the second term the library started a voluntary book club for year five/ six readers. They cleverly named it Black & White inc. (for the ink on the page). The book club readers have been devouring books and are keen to share their reviews with you on the blog. Please feel free to comment and pass on your encouragement to them.

Pie - by Sarah Weeks 

Pie is an incredible story by Sarah Weeks about a young girl called Alice, her aunt Polly and the people of Ipswich. When Polly passes away her recipe goes with her! It's up to Alice to solve the mystery of the "stolen" recipe and save Ipswich from becoming broke, for without Polly and her humble pie shop, everything goes wrong! I highly recommend PIE to all ages and rate it about five stars! 
By Emma, Room 5.