Selwyn Kids Bookclub Reviews
The dragon prophecy by Geronimo Stilton
This book is about how Geronimo goes to the Kingdom of Fantasy again to find that the last dragon eggs have been stolen! Geronimo has to cross many worlds to find out who stole them like trolls, nasty dragons, the talking woods and many more places with the help from Bisty the ladybug, Sparkle, Sterling and Scribble Hopper. They must retrieve the eggs and catch the person who stole them. If Geronimo doesn't get the eggs back in one week then the dragons will be extinct forever.
I would recommend this book to ages 9 and up. I like this book because Geronimo always gets into trouble before he gets out of it.
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The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens
Review by Lauren
The Emerald Atlas is a book about three children who are very special. These three kids are taken from their beds to a surrounding that was unfamiliar to their eyes. They are at the first orphange of many.
Kate is shy and private, Michael is well...obsessed with dwarfs and Emma is the youngest but the toughest of the group.
At last they have reached by far the worst orphanage of them all, Cambridge Falls. There the children discover the Emerald atlas and find out that with a picture they can travel to any date in the past. When they go back in time to Cambridge Falls , they discover all the children in the town are held captive by abeautiful yet eveil girl, The Countess.
The book is full of twists and turns that leave you wanting more. I recommend it to people the age of 10+ it is an adventure with some scary scenes
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Review by Jorja age 9
2Much4U is a very funny book. It is about a boy who has a lot of trouble. He was going to wash the car when the hose couldn't reach, so he hopped in the car and tried to make it go forward, but the cow got out of its paddock so he rushed out of the car not putting the brake on and tried to get the cow back in its paddock when the car started rolling down the hill into the incinerator "BOOM!". The car is blown up!
How will he ever pay to get a new car?
I would recommend it for ages 7 and up.
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The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Review by Alice, age 11
I decided to read this book because I saw the movie and thought it was good, so I read it. Sadly it wasn't as good as the movie.
The princess bride was about Westley and Buttercup, who fall in love, but Westley supposedly dies and Buttercup becomes betrothed to Prince Humperdink who plans to murder her and make it look like the Guilderans (another counttry) did it.Which would be a good excuse to start a war, as Prince Humperdink has always wanted.
Westley however had not died and moves Heaven and Earth to save his Buttercup, withth the help of some other heroic adventurers.
I liked the adventure story, but I didn't like William Goldmans's wy of writing. he pretended that another writer had wrote the story and that he was abridging it, with a lot of comments to the reader, which I mostly skipped.
This book would appeal to mature children and adults who like adventure stories.
2 and a half stars.
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Review by Jorja, age 8
It is about a boy named August and he has had 27 surgeries because his face is deformed. This book has got different chapters where his sister Via and his friends summer, Jack, Justin and Miranda talk about August.
Some parts are funny, some are sad and some funny. The main part about this book is August starting a new school and how everyone reacts to him.
I would recommend it for 9 and up, but there are no pictures so you are going to have to imagine everything.
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Judy Moody goes to College by Megan McDonald
Review by Jorja, age 8 
Judy Moody goes to college because she needs to learn more about maths. On Saturday she went to college to do painting and other college activities, but not for maths.
But when she went back to school she wore college clothes like ripped jeans, tattoos, sparkly glasses, and jandals. She also starts calling parents by their real names, Kate and Richard!
The book comes in series 1 - 8. You have to read the 1st and the 2nd one, then you can read whichever one you want after that.
I would recommend it for 6 and up.
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Mummy by Kathleen Duey - a review by John, age 8
The time soldiers are a group of children who found a time portal. When they had gone through the time portal they were in a pyramid in Ancient Egypt. They found their way to another time portal and an Egyptian pharaoh took them to his palace and wanted to keep them.
They need to find a way to escape from him. The pamoja stone is what opens the time portal. Men in black suits are tracking the time soldiers because they want the pamoja stone, but it has been stolen!
Who are the men in black?
Who stole the stone?
How will they return?
I borrowed this book from the library after I had read the others in the series. I really like the pictures and the adventures they go on. I think this book would be good for the class to read, and for 8-10 year old boys.
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It's too frightening for me! by Shirley Hughes - a review by Eli, age 7 
This book is about two boys called Arthur and Jim. They heard a story about a witch that locked a girl in an house and they went over to the haunted house they thought it was a haunted house and they saw a girls face!!!!! My favourite part was when they saw the girl's face. I recommend it for people 6 and up.
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Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren - a review by Leah, age 10
Pippi Longstocking is 9 years old, lives alone, has a pet monkey, has a horse on her porch and is amazingly strong. She also believes her father has not died, but was shipwrecked on a deserted island and has become a cannibal king and will come and fetch her one day so she can become a cannibal princess!! She has two friends called Annika and Tommy who live next door to her.They play with her everyday. Sometimes they play in a hollow oak tree which grows ginger beer and on Thursdays it grows on chocolate bars!! I enjoy this book so much that this is the second time I've read it. I would recommend this book to children 6 and up.