Harriet Bright Holiday Hullabaloo Craig Claire & Melanie Feddersen (Penguin)The Harriet Bright books are fun to read and this continues the tradition with four delightful holiday-time stories.
Harriet Bright loves poetry and she is going to have the best holiday ever and Christmas is very nearly here! But there are 6480 seconds (Harriet knows because she calculated it) before she is allowed to get out of bed. She promise, promise, promised, her mother that she wouldn't get out of bed until 7 am so she takes out her notebook and writes down some good ideas to pass the time.
Other stories include the 'being bored' story, and the summer holiday friend that comes by (who causes a whole heaps of trouble for Harriet), and the best holiday story ever - starring Harriet Bright and her best friend Melly ... and a camel, and a pyramid and more.
The three Harriet Bright books, all have short stories with light illustrations, highlighted text ... and of course there are poems scattered throughout! Delightful reads. See the website for more including a Christmas competition and poetry entries.
Musical Mayhem - The Fabulous Diary of Persephone Pinchgut Aleesah Darlison & Serena Geddes (New Frontier)This new series stars Persephone Pinchgut and her sister Portia, identical twins who are opposites in so many ways, but, as regularly happens with twins who are also often compared. Persephone is sensible and shy, Portia is glam and good a most everything (including losing her strawberry lip gloss) so Persephone writes this personal secret diary with her innermost secrets to have something of her very own. In Musical Mayhem the dreaded school musical has been announced - at least Persephone thinks it is a disaster. Portia though cant wait for she will take the lead of the Princess - so she hopes. Throughout the story Persephone writes about her 'twin troubles' and especially of her twin's teasing but in the end the two girls move from 'twin troubles' to 'totally together twins'.
Written in diary form with well spaced text and lovely simple line illustrations scattered throughout the Totally Twins series will be enjoyed by young girls.Also available is Model Mayhem.
These are fun reads. Enjoy!
