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Book reviews

Eating in season

Preparing food that is in season allows you to cook with ingredients at their freshest, tastiest and cheapest.

This book is full of colourful, mouthwatering photographs and delicious recipes for starters, main courses, desserts, soups, preserves and chutneys.

I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys simple, healthy and tasty cooking.

Maryam Hulme

Cooking through the year. 1000 recipes season by season. Dorling Kindersley.
£25 h/b. ISBN 9781409384090.

Stop cyber bullying

Since becoming a head of year I’m finding that bullying doesn’t stop at the school gates but carries on online. As students become more digitally literate it’s important to help them understand the power they have.

This well researched book provides ideas, models, guidance and plans that should help you prevent cyberbullying. It will help you understand the experiences and needs of those suffering. It doesn’t provide just evidence, but also offers good ideas on how to respond.

Lee Ryder

Cyberbullying and E-Safety by Adrienne Katz. Jessica Kingsley. £18.99 p/b. ISBN 184905276X.

Handy help

As teachers we know that time pressures can stop us preparing great lessons. Anything that helps speed up the process of planning is welcome.

This book will provide ideas that motivate that most difficult of audiences, the teenager.
It works well because it is broken down into quick ideas that can easily be built on to existing plans.

It covers all aspects of teaching – a good guide for teachers old and new.

Teaching Teenagers by Warren Kidd and Gerry Czerniawski. Sage Publications. £23.99 p/b.
ISBN 0857023853.

African adventure

An exciting story about how a family holiday turned into a rescue mission for a soon-to-be Prime Minister of Africa.

While on a safari in Africa with her family, 13-year-old Phoebe Nash witnesses the kidnapping of an African MP. With the phone he gave her before he was taken, Phoebe calls his son. Together, they ride through the plains on his motorbike in search of his father.

Louisa Gatto, Y11
Queen Elizabeth Girls School

Phoebe Nash, Girl Warrior by Justin D’ath. A & C Black. £5.99. ISBN 9781408165676.

Something for everyone

This attractive anthology will make a good Christmas present for children up to the age of 90. Great favourites abound – Alfred Noyes’ keenly alliterative The Highwayman, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Land of Counterpane, Aesop’s fables, AE Houseman, the cautionary tales of Hilaire Belloc – wonderfully irreverent! Roald Dahl, Charles Kingsley – a magical collection of old and new poems with something for everyone.

Janey Hulme

If – A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility eds Allie Esiri and Rachel Kelly. Canon Gate. £20 h/b. ISBN 9780857865571.

Fantastic Mr Rosen

I expected a lot from a book written by a children’s laureate about one of the greatest children’s authors of all time. This book completely met my expectations. It will delight and inspire – especially those of primary school age, its intended audience.

Michael Rosen draws lessons from the text to help children become better writers. It should be standard reading for children learning to write biographies. Buy it for your school library.

Matt Bradley

Fantastic Mr Dahl by Michael Rosen. Penguin. £6.99 p/b. ISBN 9780141322131.