cbookorner age 0-5+
CHEEKY MONKEY by Zehra Hicks A cute little red
monkey wants to play, but nobody wants to play with her!
Enthusiastically asking her friends to play, Monkey manages to get paint on Zebra’s tail, steal Giraffe’s lunch and barge ahead of the meerkats on the slide – not to mention waking Lion up from his nap. Oh dear! It looks like monkey has to say those two little words: I’m sorry. Fortunately, saying sorry has a brilliant effect and monkey soon finds that everyone wants to play with a monkey that plays nicely.
PLAYING WITH FIRE by Henning Mankell. This is the second volume of Henning Mankell’s excellent Mozambique Fire novels, shortlisted for the 2005 Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation. Volume one, Secrets in the Fire, ended with a
age 9-12+
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Here’s our round up of great books for this month.
over him at breakfast, blocking out the light, and follows him on his slow journey to and from work. Because elephant makes Dad quiet and sad with raincloud eyes, Olive spends lots of time with Grandad, who always has a way of cheering her up – from singing songs to making paper aeroplanes. Olive knows she has to work out how to get rid of the elephant and make her Dad smile again – but how? With the help of her Grandad and her friend Arthur, she begins to think about the little things in life that bring colour to the dark days. This lovely book is perfectly pitched at 6-8 year olds who might have a grown-up in their life suffering from depression or grief.
age 6-9+
tragic landmine explosion, in which Sofia lost her legs, but now she is growing up and is ready, like her beautiful older sister Rosa, to fall in love. When the mysterious ‘Moonboy’ appears, he seems to be the answer to Sofia’s prayers, but is he real, or just a figment of her imagination? Then Rosa falls sick, is diagnosed with HIV and turns to African magic for a cure, leaving Sofia to try and plan for both their futures. This is another superb offering from Henning Mankell, beautifully written and highly topical.
THE ELEPHANT by Peter Carnavas. Olive’s dad lives in the shadow of a great grey elephant. It looms
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