WHAT IS IT ABOUT:
Adrian Mole is a typical teenage boy whose diary reveals him to be nervous, hormonal and struggling with the day to day events of teenage life. A fictional diary written by SUe Townsend, this is a light hearted, comic and touching book from the early 90s.
IS IT ANY GOOD:
Here's a book I read as a young boy and have just now finished again. I remember loving it as a kid, and it still holds a lot of charm, for a couple of reasons:
1) It's easy to relate to - the maladies of working class inner city family life are something many people will be able to understand, from parents overdoing it on the drink, to measuring your growing penis, this is so normal it's laughable. Looking at someone else going through the same thing you've been through helps show you how funny life really is.
2) It's accessible - for a teen ...
Advantages: Interesting if grim insight into how the mentally afflicted were treated in ages past Disadvantages: None really, for those interested in the subject
At the very least, this book is a salutary reminder that every time we read or hear anything about mental health issues, or care in the community, our ancestors used to talk about madness and disease ? the two often being inseparable. For hundreds of years, even less than a century ago, people suffering from no more than acute depression were treatedin 'hospital' (I use the terms advisedly) in a manner which sounds horrific today.
The illustration on the front jacket, a detail from one of William Hogarth's 18th-century series The Rake's Progress, says much about prevailing attitudes and perception at the time. A debtor, his head shaved, is incarcerated and surrounded by a crowd of gaolers and keepers while other unfortunate souls look on. People suffering from what the French called la maladie anglaise were regarded as freaks, little ...
Advantages: Ease of letting young children watch on thier own Disadvantages: None
Another great Barbie film for the girls.
Elina (barbie) a flower fairy, who discovers that her home of Magic Meadow has been overcome by a horrible malady that is killing the flowers and making the fairies unable to fly. With the help of Bibble, a puffball and a giant butterfly named Hue she attempts to find Azura, a Guardian Fairy. Evil Laverna wants to usurp the Enchantress, the ruler of Fairytopia.
It is on Elina to help save Fairytopia.
Elina has some unusual friends helping her on her way, especially her good friend Bibbles.
I enjoy watching these Barbie films with my daughter and she loves watching them over and over again :)
This is a well told story, that you feel safe letting your young children watch, they are definitely aimed at the younger child, with the added bonus it can pull mummy in to :) Its not very often you ...
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