ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell 144 pp. Penguin Group. £8.99. (Ages 13 and up) ISBN 9780141182704 Rating: ? Stars This book is set in a future when animals are much cleverer than now. And because of their cleverness, the pigs started a revolution against the humans. Pigs could speak fluently in English unlike the other animals, and that gave them the power to be leaders. But, the story that follows only happened a few years after that... Their first leader, Old Major, was kind and fair who knew animals should be equal. But when Napoleon became the leader it was very unpleasant. He made a rule that allowed the pigs to have better food and that forced all of the other animals to work crazily hard every day and night. That wasn’t enough, Napoleon wanted more power. He decided to kill his brother, Snowball, so that he would be the only leader. Snowball was admired because he came up with a clever idea to build windmill. Sn...
THE OWL WHO WAS AFRAID OF THE DARK By Jill Tomlinson. Illustrated by Paul Howard. 112 pp. Egmont Books Ltd. £3.99. (Ages 7 and up) ISBN 9781405210935 Rating: ? Stars The author of the book is Jill Tomlinson. Jill Tomlinson never trained to be a writer. She wanted to be an opera singer, but when she got ill she had to stop. She decided to write books for children. The bus that went to church was her first story. But it was turned down by 16 publishers before Being accepted as a picture book! In the owl who was afraid of the dark, Plop is a baby owl perfect in every way - exept for one. Plop is Afraid of the dark! The book costs £3.99. There is a cat, an otter, a penguin, a hen, an aardvark and a gorilla. Egmont is the company that published the book. You can find more information on internet. The ISBN number is 1-4052-1093-1. The picture tells you that there is a baby owl in the book. In the lady's sketch book there is a Barn owl, hedgehog, bat and a badger. One half of her book is ...
