I really like Harriet Bright. She is a female character with class and grit and determination and she loves poetry! This is the second book about 9 years old Harriet Bright who has been nine nearly every single day this year but will soon be ten.
There are three short stories in this book:
Laugh Out Loud ... where Harriet conducts a ground breaking survey to find out why adults don't laugh as much as kids do - to do that she becomes a laughologist (and finds out about crinkles and wrinkles and laugh lines along the way)
Only Lonely Me ... where Harriet delves into her family history and discovers she is not the first Harriet Bright! Now not only is she an only child she is alone not the only Harriet Bright! bjt she does discover something about her great aunt that she really likes!
In Talent take Two, Harriet and Melly have one week to find their talent to enter the talent quest which is no easy task!
Scattered throughout this book are Harriet's poems. There is also ahs a great website where young readers can send poems to Harriet. See the website http://www.harrietbright.com/
This is book number 4 in the Little Horrors series ... and they are little horrors!
Tikki Flicker is fed up being good. She wants to earn her Badge of badness and then be a bad fairy. She wants to go to Hag's Abademy of Badness to become even badder! But her uncle Sedge Withy, the Marsh fairy, is sure that Tikki is good, so to convince her Uncle otherwise Tikki sets out doing bad things ... not pesky things that are annoying but really really bad tings in the marsh. And when she flitters across the Pixiepackers (in acutality dryfeet, aka humans) Tikki might just have a chance of proving her badness!
A bad fairy book ... how good!
Skoz the dog is a sleep walking dog and he finds himself waking up in a boat with his head on a pillow that is actually a bag of bait.
Skoz the dog is all at sea in the middle of the ocean. Soon Skoz also discovers he has a shark swimming very close by. a few rough waves and Skoz is floating in the air, free of the boat and heading for shark teeth! but when he escapes from that teethy encounter more troubles being to unravel as the boat gradually falls apart as the boat is bring dragged through the water while Skoz holds onto the fishing line. But Skoz's sea adventure has only just begun!
This is a delightful story about a teacher, her students and the classroom pet - a duck!
A new pet, Max, has been brought to the school by the teacher and everyone wants to take Max home. The problem is the teacher has some very rigid rules that must be adhered to before Mac can stay overnight such as:
No dogs or cats, with the supplementary rule of
No ferrets or other clawed or toothy animals of any kind ... and just a few more. So Abby and her annoying neighbour Noah set about creating just the perfect environment in their homes that will meet the teacher's rules! When finally the conditions are met Max does get to stay over night with Abby all goes well ... until the next morning. Where is Max and what will happen to Max, and Noah and Abby?
Delightful illustrations accompany the short chapters - and comes with Little horror tattoos too!!
Enjoy these great reads!
