Handling Swollen Goods - Ivor Biggun

Advantages: Good fun to watch
Disadvantages: None

...legal tender. Can any half-crowns be found anywhere in the village? Snowdrifts Its been snowing in the village for days (We know how they feel!). The baker has run out of flour and the other shop keepers are running very low on stock, the village will starve if they are not careful. The only way they will be able to collect stocks is if Ivor puts a snow plough on the front of his engine. So Jones goes to see the local blacksmith who manages to knock something up. Ivor gets through to the main town where all the goods are waiting for them but on the way back there seems to have been an avalanche and some sheep have been caught up in it. Can Ivor and Jones save the sheep? The Fire Engine Its stopped snowing but the snow is hanging about. Ivor is standing with Jones outside the local fire station and the Fire... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic story, great characters, well written, I couldn't put it down
Disadvantages: None

...I have been a massive fan of the author Jodi Picoult and her books ever since I read "My Sister's Keeper", many years ago, when it was a Richard and Judy read (although I didn't know that at the time!). Since then, I've gone out of my way to read all of her other works, and get hold of her new books as soon as they come out. I always save any book tokens I get for Christmas to buy her books but even I couldn't believe my luck when last week, I won a copy of her brand new book not due out until April in a competition from her website! I was over the moon to open the packet and find my pre-release book in there and I started it that night. I've loved her past two books, so Jodi had a lot to live up for me...did she succeed once more? Handle With Care is possibly one of Jodi's most controversial books, with an impossible question... Read review

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Advantages: Well written and enthralling
Disadvantages: Horrid ending

...Advantages: Well wrritten and enthralling Disadvantages: Horridending I became a fan of the author Jodi Picoult after reading My Sister's Keeper ' and 'Vanishing Acts '. I recenetly read 'The Lost Daughter' by Diane Chamberlain which was advertised as being "for fans of Jodi Picoult this is a must read". I found that this was far better than Jodi Picoult's books but then having found Picoult's newest book 'Handle With Care' I thought I would give her work another read. Jodi had a lot of work to do to woo me back from the work of Diane - did she handle me with enough care with this book? Wow what a minefield of controversy this book brings, it is a very absorbing book with some even more difficult decisions and questions wrapped up in the story. The story deals with a particularly nasty brittle bone disease... Read review

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