The Klangaroo

The Klangaroo

By Mark Bird

Genre:-Children's Fiction/Children's Picture Book/Children's Poetry

Pages:-36

Reading Age:-1-7 years

Blurb:-Two baby Kangaroos,

one wacky inventor,

and a gigantic robot have a day at the zoo

no one will ever forget!

With no Mummy or Daddy to teach them to hop,

the zoo's baby joeys just wobble and flop.

Dr Try builds a robot to help them bounce high,

but when things all go wrong,

will their bouncing dreams fly?

This fantastic and wacky rhyming book is written by Mark Bird from Dream Beast Poems, who writes inspirational and hilarious poetry that will have both adults and children laughing out loud.

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My Review:-My granddaughter and I have had the pleasure of reading and also listening to The Klangaroo. Dr Try loved inventing things, she made WILD, WACKY robots. While out taking her FAT fish for a walk she came across a sign by the zoo, saying they needed help with two baby joey kangaroos. The kangaroos didn't know how to jump, they just waddled and flopped. Dr Try knew this was a job for her and set to work inventing the perfect robot to teach the kangaroos. But things don't go the plan on the day when Dr Try showed her invention to everyone. 

 We had so much fun reading this book, each page is colourful and filled with so much that you can tell the story yourself with children using the illustrations. We also listened to the story as the narrator used different voices, along with sound effects that brought the story to life.

Traitor

Traitor

By Chris Ryan

Genre:-Crime Fiction/Spy Thriller/Political Thriller

Pages:-320

Blurb:--The epic, bullet-fast thriller from no.1 Bestselling SAS hero, Chris Ryan.

 A year after his older brother made the ultimate sacrifice, Sergeant Major Luke Carter, decorated hero of 22 SAS, is sent to Perth on a recruiting job. His orders: select two candidates from the SASR for a highly sensitive mission on foreign soil.

 But when a sudden crisis threatens to derail the plan, Carter and his new colleagues find themselves forced into action on a high-stakes operation. One that has the potential to change the course of the war in Ukraine.

 So begins a deadly game of predator and prey, moving from the streets of Minsk to the cliffs above the Black Sea. And a final showdown with the biggest target of all...

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My Review:-When I seen Chris Ryan's name I knew I had to read this book, if it's anything like his other books this is going to be a great read.

 Sergeant Major Luke Carter is sent on a recruiting job to Perth, Australia. Once they are back at base they are sent to Ukraine to train others, but later they get news to say they are going to Minsk to assassinate someone that is close to Putin. The group of men are then sent on more jobs, but no one knows who and why they are being sent on these jobs? This is so close to real life with what is going on in our world now, you can feel the tension build. I'm not given anything away, you will have to read the book yourself to find out what's instore for everyone. 

 Chris has done it again with a well thought out story as well as action and interesting characters you get to meet.

The Advocate's Conviction

The Advocate's Conviction

By Teresa Burrell

Genre:-Thriller/Mystery

Pages:-327

Publisher:-Silent Thunder Publishing

Blurb:-Sabre Orin Brown's clients keep disappearing. With seemingly no connection between the cases, Sabre enlists the help of her southern PI friend, JP, and her best friend, Bob, to find each of them--before it's too late. In her race against the clock, Sabre must determine whether contemporary horrors are being buried in the shadow of dark traditions--or if it's something else at work. A conspiracy years in the making, secrets hidden for decades, and the twisted work of a mysterious society have all come together in the ultimate test of the strength of Sabre's conviction.

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My Review:-The Advocate's Conviction is book three in 'The Advocate Series'. I've had the pleasure of reading books one and two. Sabre Orin Brown is a child advocate attorney, working in the Children's Courts. When two children, Cole Johnson who's eight and Bailey Lecy who's fourteen go missing from foster care, Sabre asks for help from JP her private investigator friend and Bob her best friend as well as an attorney. Even though there is a link to suspected satanic rituals, Sabre knows that they must do all they can to protect the children and make sure they are safe, she knows there is something deeper going on. Will they find the children before it's to late?

 Teresa Burrell can catch your attention and keep it, with interesting plots and characters

Pasta Sam Cooks Brownies

 

Pasta Sam Cooks Brownies

By Chef Stacey Leith

Illustrated by Stacey Webster

Genre:-Children's Cookery Book

Pages:-32

Blurb:-In this collectable series, we follow Pasta Sam, his family and friends on their journey of learning to cook.

 These books help to teach children simple and easy cooking techniques and recipes with their grown ups. Alongside some fun characters and funny backstory, children get to learn a skill in a fun way while falling in love with food and encouraging family time at home.

 In this book, Sam's mother is teaching him, and YOU, how to make delicious Brownies, a wonderful treat for all ages!

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My Review:-My granddaughter, Emily and I decided to read this book together as one of her bedtime stories. We get to meet Pasta Sam, Mummy Pasta and Pasta Pop. It's not a nice day outside and Pasta Sam is bored, He can't play outside with his friends or his dog and Pasta Pop is busy watching TV. Mummy Pasta has a idea that will be fun but also a way to learn something new. Mummy Pasta decides to teach Pasta Sam how to make Brownies. Using Mummy Pasta's recipe book they find a recipe, Gooey Chocolate Brownies. After getting everything that they needed together it's time to start, Mummy Pasta tells Pasta Sam that touching the oven or anything hot is dangerous and you must ask for help from a grown up and also take care. It's not long before its times for Pasta Sam to clean the chocolate off the spatula. Once the brownies were made they have to cool, but they disappear, where have they gone? That's for you to find out when you read the book. This is a great book as a story, but also as a learning book. The illustrations tells the story for younger readers, as well as it being an easy read for older children. The back of the book has the Brownie recipe so you can try it out for yourself.  

Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln

Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln

By Tony McMahon

Genre:-Non Fiction/Historical/Crime

Pages:330

Publisher:-Troubadour

Blurb:-An astonishing connection between two of the 19th century's greatest crimes.

 A fraudulent doctor, Francis Tumblety, is implicates in both the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the 1888 Jack the Ripper killings. It seems incredible that Jack the Ripper could have been involved in killing President Lincoln, but the evidence is revealed in this book.

 We delve into a murky underworld in America's Gilded Age and the poverty ridden slums of London's Whitechapel district following the murderous trail left by Tumblety. A flamboyant huckster, well known in the newspaper gossip columns, whose celebrity masked his homicidal tendencies.

 Arrested over the Lincoln assassination then released while others were hanged on the scaffold. Put behind bars briefly by Scotland over the Jack the Ripper killings but then makes a daring escape. The proof is overwhelming that Tumblety was one of the most dangerous criminals of the 19th century.

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My Review:-I wasn't sure really what to expect for Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln by Tony McMahon. I have read a few books about Jack the Ripper and I remember read one about Abraham Lincoln at school, but this one was totally different. I have to say I found this book interesting, with things that were new to me. I did like finding out a bit more about Dr. Francis Tumblety, who was a quack and a fake Indian herbalist. Even though he was first suspected of the murders in Whitechapel District, London, another murder happened while he was in New York s they took him off the list of suspects. This book does show evidence that there was a connection to both cases, but there is other evidence that says different. If you like history and past murders, I would recommend giving this book a read.