Cornucopia Vol.3 - Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band

Advantages: Lovely pictures
Disadvantages: Too gentle for slightly older toddlers.

...***Background*** My final Christmas book review is one about a charming elephant called Humphrey. He was created by Sally Hunter and there are a number of books written about him. Humphrey is part of a large elephant family and he is only 3 but has lots of fun with his big sister Lottie who is 5. You can find lots more about these lovely characters at www.humphreys-corner.com. The designs have been turned into cards, soft toys and they also appear on children's clothes and bedding sets. ***The Story*** The book starts, "Humphrey and Lottie love Christmastime?watching the soft, floaty snow." As we go through the book we see Humphrey and his sister Lottie getting ready for Christmas. They help lick out the bowl after their mummy has made the Christmas cake and we see them opening the last door on their advent... Read review

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Advantages: kids like it
Disadvantages: is nothing compared to the original

...a model aeroplane, why?, well it's only because he saw some boys in the park with their planes and Bean being Bean thinks he can do better. A very basic and boring episode, again filled with slapstick comedy and portrays Mr Bean as very childish. 3. Royal Bean - He manages breaks his favourite drinking cup. It's a tea mug with a picture of the Queen`s face on it. So he decides to get another one and visits london city only to find trouble and ends up being cased into buckingham palace where he meets her majesty herself. An okay episode if your a child, nothing side splitingly funny though. 4. Young Bean- set in a daydreamy format Mr Bean is sorting out Mrs Wickets jumble in her loft and he remembers being a child. Another episode that was painful to sit through, no real original comedy. 5. In the Pink - This animated episode sees Mr... Read review

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Advantages: superb post iraq thriller
Disadvantages: none

...The Third World war is thriller written by BBC news broadcaster Humphrey Hawksley. It is set in the immediate future, with Iraq and the war on terror still very much the current issues of the time. The book begins dramatically with an attack on the Indian Parliament by muslim terrorists. The Indian Prime Minister Vasant Metha finds himself helping to fight off the attack alongside his daughter Meenashki. A few days later the President of Pakistan is assassinated which serves as the trigger for a series of uprisings by Muslim extremists in East Asia. Meanwhile a US military base in Japan is hit by a North Korean missile and a sample of the smallpox vaccine disappears from a laboratory in Russia. All these events initially seem unconnected but the American and British intelligence services soon discover chilling links between... Read review

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