by admin | Aug 26, 2018 | Book Reviews
“Leo’s War”, written by Patricia Murphy, is a wartime adventure story which takes place in Rome during World War II at a time when the Germans occupied Italy. Leo and his sister Ruby live with their mother just outside Rome and their father is away...
by admin | Aug 23, 2018 | Book Reviews
Spies by Brian Gallagher is a book about three friends – Johnny, Stella and Alice – growing up during the Irish War of Independence. Stella is Canadian with a father who is an RAF wing commander, Alice and her family own the Mill Hotel of Balbriggan and Johnny is a...
by admin | Aug 13, 2018 | Book Reviews
“Diary Detectives” by Erika McGann is about a girl called Cass and her two best friends called Lex and Nicholas. Cass has a mortal enemy, Ms Lee. Ms Lee wants all the children to stop annoying the residents. She makes up rules that mean children aren’t...
by admin | Aug 10, 2018 | Book Reviews
This is a story about things going missing at Lenny’s grandad’s house. There are good descriptions of the creatures that Lenny and his grandad meet on their quest to find out what is going on. While some parts of the story are slightly creepy, otherwise it is funny...
by admin | Jun 19, 2018 | Book Reviews
The children in my class thought that this book, “A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea” by Sarah Webb and Steve Mc Carthy, was a fabulous book. They really enjoyed the poems and they had great fun reading the poems by themselves and aloud. The collection of poems...
by admin | Jun 19, 2018 | Book Reviews
“Firsts for Irish Women” by Olive Collins, “Martin Luther King Jr.” by Andrew O’Connor and “Pope Francis” by Brian Doyle are all books which are part of Poolbeg’s “In a Nutshell” series. The first of these books...
