I came across this book when I was about 10. I remember finding it on the classroom library shelf (I think second shelf down and about a third in from the left – the memory is that vivid!) and feeling that it was in some way important. It was the first story I read which…
Sam is 11 and he’s dying of leukaemia. He reckons he’ll be dead by the time you finish the book. This is his journal. We meet his cynical, adventurous best mate Felix from the hospital, his Mum, doing her best to hold it all together, his Dad, trying to pretend it’s not happening, his little…
A simple tale of hope, it may help a child who is wondering about how the world is that people find it hard to manage without barbed wire divisions. Gardens are not only unfazed by fences, they may actually use them to grow up and through and over. And the patience of a small boy,…
Perhaps this is a little more like the kind of book you might expect on a site with this name. Certainly here is an angel, an angel who is suitably mysterious. And an angel who brings about a kind of miracle, for Lewis has a dodgy leg and wants to be like the other kids….
Beegu’s a long way from home. Her flying saucer crash lands on Earth. She’s worried she won’t ever see her mother again and Earth is very strange. But she finds some children, and they are nice and then… she hears her mother. A book with few words and pictures that subtly convey great emotional heft….
