Stephen Tompkinson Books

I borrowed this from the local library to read to my son and it soon became his favourite book. I love it! The illustrations are excellent and detailed, and the story just flows. The kids know what's coming next even before you've read the words! A great book for the young ones!

My son (3 years old) loves planes, trains and automobiles. This story has so many of them (a car, train, boat, plane, dump truck, bicycle, race car, and even a whale!) as it takes you on an adventure whereby when you shout "ALL CHANGE" your mode of transportation changes. The short rhymes are catchy, the graphics are really nice. It's an action-packed adventure to enjoy.

I can honestly say that Frank Cottrell Boyce was born to write this book. It was his destiny. The book is categorized as a children's book, but speaks volumes to us adults too!! Imagination and adventure are essential in our lives as well!! Simply magical.

Millions

Millions is a book about two brothers who find a big bag of money that they believe has fallen from the sky. In reality, the money was thrown from a train into the boys' backyard as part of a plan formed by criminals to steal the money. The brothers have a little over a month to spend the money before it is Euro Day. Euro is the day when the government collects all of your euros. The boys' succeed in spending a lot of the money, then they burn the rest so that they will not caught with it.
My favorite part of the book is when the criminals are searching people's houses to find the money. I like this part of the book because it is a mystery who robbed the people and I enjoy mysteries. Also, it means that it could be the boys' house that gets searched next. If their house is next, then the criminals could find the money and the boys could be in trouble. I recommend this book at certain times and not at others. I recommend this book because it is exciting. I also recommend this book because it is interesting. It involves religious saints. I don't recommend this book because some parts don't make sense and are confusing and difficult to understand.

This book called "Millions" is about two boys and there father. One of the boys finds A LOT of money thrown to him out of the skywhen a train was passing by.He thinks it came from heaven but it didnt! How did he getit? Where did it come from?Find out in this thrilling book called "Millions"!

I really enjoyed this movie, however, I had read the book first. The author, who also wrote the screenplay, really explained things in the book that only appeared briefly on the screen (I'm thinking, for example, of the scene in which the boy frees the birds. Much better in the book.) I'm not sure I would have had the same enjoyment of the movie had I not read the book.

This is a great book for all ages. It's very well written and so original you will remember it forever. Damian has to be one of the best characters to appear in a book in years. The book somehow manages to be hysterically funny, achingly sad and spiritually uplifting. The excellent movie adaptation closely follows the book though the book has more depth and background than the movie can provide. I'm actually not sure which came first the book or the screenplay but they enhance each other and Frank Cottrell Boyce is the author of both.

Since our first reading, my four year old daughter loves this book. She giggles at the humor and Nicola Davies wonderful use of her craft. A wonderful literary non-fiction choice.

This book is great for kids who love sharks. It is sassy, funny and breezy. I recommend it.

Word on the street (which is to say, librarian-based listservs) has it that the book "Surprising Sharks" is incredibly popular these days. Having heard that this book was flying from shelves across the country, garnering the love and respect of thousands of children every day, I thought I'd check it out myself. It's very rare that a non-fiction book becomes overwhelmingly accepted by kids. But when it happens, watch out! It might be all you can do to keep the l'il buggers from reading it day and night and day again.

The book is a clever look at the wide variety of sharks living in ocean waters today. From the tiny sixteen inch cookie-cutter shark (which wins my love on name alone) to the vast twenty-nine foot six inch basking shark, this book has `em all. It includes a variety of amusing factoids in its text, providing copious amounts of useful information. In a well drawn graphic section, the book examines the common properties that all sharks share, both inside and outside the body. Kids reading this book learn about the different parts of the shark and why they're so awfully dangerous. Most interestingly of all, the book makes it perfectly clear that while sharks do kill an average six people a year, people kill an average 100 MILLION sharks a year. The book finishes up with an index of all the sharks in the text (for kids' easy referencing) as well as a bit of shark history to boot.

I was a little sad that author Nicola Davies didn't give any space to a bibliography of sources kids could use to find out more about sharks and their ways. Still, that's small potatoes. Davies certainly seems to have plumbed every last bit of interesting information about sharks she could find. I mean, who knew that the gel-filled pits in a sharks nose detect the electrical messages in a prey's body? Or that latern sharks have light making organs that help them blend into the silvery surface of the water around them? News to me! Illustrator James Croft gives the book an easy-going cartoonish feel that doesn't particularly add much to the book, but neither does it detract. The book's brightly colored and amusing. Just not particularly original in that respect.

If you need a good non-fiction picture book that'll give some of the more scientifically minded kiddies the thrills they seek (and frankly, what kid isn't interested in man-eating animals with big nasty teeth?) "Surprising Sharks" is your best bet. It's not gory, but it'll certain give some kids the thrill of fear they seek in their non-fic lit. An enterprising and engaging book.

The title of this book is the Gentle Giant Octopus. The author of this book is Karen Wallace. The illustrator is Mike Bostock. The genre is true animal story.
The octopus can have 60,000 babies at a time. When a fish bites off a tentacle, the tentacle grows back. The octopus has no bones. It can fit in really small places. Octopi squirt ink to get away from predators.
The main idea of this book is to teach people about octopi. It is also to teach how octopi live and survive in the ocean. It is on our top 10 because our class loves animals. It is a good book to read and to teach people about octopi.

i think it is really bad and not teaching the children good things about the octupuss.

I am thrilled that there is such an accurate book about the life of an Octopus for kids. Nature is not always gentle, which unfortunately other people do not take into account in their review of this book. I love the octopus, and have bought this book for my kids and my nieces and nephews, because it is a book that is informative and wonderfully written.

This ain't a book 'bout the Gentle Giant album Octopuss... woah!! Quite dissapointed when I found out.... still a great book thoug.

This would interest any child who likes sea creatures. Plenty of facts, poetically worded, and presented in small digestible blocks. The illustrations are beautifully drawn and coloured.

This dinosaur book uses rhythmic, rhyming text to show us that scientists are still learning about dinosaurs. Not only do we lean what Tyrannosaurus Rex was like, we learn what we still have left to discover. And the ones to make these discoveries will be the scientits of the future -- the young listeners enjoying this inviting and informative book.

Cute book, but our library copy has been out on the shelves for less than a year and its already fallen apart! boo!

Buired alive was quite good, when you get into it you can't put the book down. Its about a boy and how his perants push him to do stuff but he doesn't really want to do it. I recommend this book for ages 9-12.

This is advertised and unabriged. What I received was Volume three of what may be a complete version, but it was not advertised as one of a series by any means. In addition, I was very sorry that it was recorded in modern english rather than the original middle english. If I had known, I would not have ordered and am pursuing a refund.

Not a complete version.. only has SOME of the tales. I didnt realize that when I bought it!