Twisting Tails

Twirling Tails by Sue Bentley

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

There are seven different books of Magic Puppy and Twirling Tails is the seventh. On the back of each book shows the books of Magic Puppy.

The puppy in Twirling Tails had its name as Storm and his real self was just a silver wolf. He's going to become the leader of the Moon-Claw pack. The evil Shadow wants to become the leader and he's using his evil magic on normal dogs, but you can tell them from ordinary dogs because they've got pale eyes and extra sharp teeth.

I am going to get more Magic Puppy books from the library. The first one I'm going to get is going to be School of Mischief.

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Hawkite, Arrow of the Air

Hawkite, Arrow of the Air by Adam Blade

Marcus didn't finish this one.

I'm not interested in this one any more.

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Little Brother's Haircut

Little Brother's Haircut by Joy Cowley

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

This only gets one star because Little Brother was too terrible.

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The Adventures of Alfie

The Adventures of Alfie by Marjorie Gee

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Alfie is a kaka, a special type of parrot. Alfie is a nice parrot and he's been in 3 cages (though the 3rd cage was just being free). My best part was when Alfie stole someone's sandwich! I would like to meet Alfie at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellington where he lives.

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Revenge of the Living Dummy

Revenge of the Living Dummy by R.L. Stine

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Marcus didn't finish this one.

Too scary.

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Muro the Rat Monster

Muro the Rat Monster by Adam Blade

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It was amazing because when Muro was defeated the giant body of his rat-form turned into hundreds of tiny rats.

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Tintin in the Congo

Tintin Au Congo by Hergé

We read the English version of this book, which isn't on GoodReads but it was in our library. As parents, we could see the problems with the book, but any racism passed totally over our six-year old son's head. He's smart enough we're not worried about him reading it. - Marcus' Mum

Marcus says: They hunted down lions and leopards and elephants and even a snake.

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Tintin and the Lake of Sharks

Tintin and the Lake of Sharks by Hergé

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Tintin escaped thousands and I think a few tens of pirate sharks. (They weren't real sharks, just evil people.) The submarine that the sharks were in got stranded on a rock and Tintin and the Captain and Snowy all together caught them and made them prisoners. Kids helped them too, and guess what? First the sharks made Tintin and the kids prisoners, then they had them prisoners! Funny, huh? When the water had thrown the giant ball onto the little switch a bomb exploded and guess what? The sea made a ginormous spout. The Captain thought Tintin and the kids were dead, but they had gotten life-jackets on just in time.

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Terra, Curse of the Forest

Terra, Curse of the Forest by Adam Blade

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Tom nearly got eaten by Terra, but he survived. The thing that Tom needed to get (which was the ingredient he needed to help his Mum survive) was a lovely white flower. Terra's teeth dripped with black sap.

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High Tide in Hawaii

High Tide in Hawaii by Mary Pope Osborne

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It was all about surfing, and here's the best parts of all - Jack saved his friends, Annie, Kama and Boka, from a gigantic tsunami that nearly washed them all out to sea and they became Magicians of Everyday Magic.

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Komodo the Lizard King

Komodo the Lizard King by Adam Blade

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When Tom grabbed Komodo's tail, Komodo ran off just when Tom jumped onto his tail, but when Komodo ran off, Tom was staying in one place and still holding the tail! (It was because Komodo was no other than the lizards that could have their tails put off by themselves when something grabbed it.) When he got defeated, just like Muro the Rat Monster, he turned thousands of tail-breaking off lizards.

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Explorers on the Moon

Explorers on the Moon by Hergé

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

All Tintins have 5 as well as Beast Quest.

Snowy and Tintin nearly died in a very, very, very slippery cave.

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The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin in America / Cigars of the Pahraoh / The Blue Lotus

The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin in America / Cigars of the Pharaoh / The Blue Lotus by Hergé

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Cigars of the Pharaoh was cool because Tintin and Snowy survived so much bad things.

The Blue Lotus was cool because there was a dragon!

I don't remember about Tintin in America but I know I liked it.

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Bringing Up Baby Dragons

Bringing Up Baby Dragons by Dugald A. Steer

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It told us a lot about dragon care. There were different types of eggs we could do and different types of breeds. Dr Drake, the author, has got a dragon named Torcher. I'm going to make a knuckler dragon (the knuckler is the dragon with the long neck). I think Kerry would love the knuckler because it's so cutey. I saw a dragon who laid such a cool egg. It was called the lung dragon. It had a ball shaped egg that went in water.

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Chasing the Tunnelling Trickster

Chasing the Tunnelling Trickster: Dinosaur Cove 13 by Rex Stone

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I really liked this because it is about dinosaurs, which are my favourite animals besides dragons. The tunnelling trickster was a lystrosaurus and it has powerful claws that can dig a tunnel. The tunnelling trickster took Jamie's rucksack to use it as a bed! Ha ha ha! The tunnelling trickster also ate sume of the pickle sandwiches. Funny! Do you think pickle sandwiches would taste nice? I wouldn't think that would be nice!

Jamie and Tom use an ammonite to get to different places, but first they have to go in the sandbox and dig up the ammonites and they have to look for the right one for where they want to go by looking at the big glass case that has got ammonites in it that are labelled. There are: Permian, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous.

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The Maze of the Beast

The Maze of the Beast by Emily Rodda

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It was amazing because the companions: Lief, Barda and Jasmine survived such a ginormous beast called the Glus. They found the amethyst in a rock where the Glus had crept by and near where they had slept. My favourite bit was when the amethyst was found.

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Brilliant Billy's Big Book of Dinosaurs

Brilliant Billy's Big Book of Dinosaurs by Simon Hutton

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I liked it because Billy and his dad went to the museum and tried to find the Thesaurus. David in Billy's class, (not Dim David) got the dinosaur book that Billy wanted to get for his Mum.

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Corduroy

Corduroy by Don Freeman

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

It was about a bear in green overalls who had a button lost.

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Ferno the Fire Dragon

Beast Quest #1 Ferno the Fire Dragon by Adam Blade

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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Find Your Function at Conjunction Junction

Find Your Function at Conjunction Junction by Pamela Hall

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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The Mind-Swap Menace

Astrosaurs 4: The Mind-swap Menace by Stephen Cole

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

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Tagus the Night Horse

Tagus The Night Horse by Adam Blade

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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Martin Bridge: Sound the Alarm!

Martin Bridge: Sound the Alarm! by Jessica Scott Kerrin

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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The White Wolf

The White Wolf by Ron Roy

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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The Cat Who Got Carried Away

The Cat Who Got Carried Away by Allan Ahlberg

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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Swimming with Dolphins

Swimming With Dolphins by Miriam Coleman

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

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Land of Black Gold

Land of Black Gold by Hergé

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

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Lions at Lunchtime

Lions at Lunchtime by Mary Pope Osborne

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

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The Seas of Doom

Astrosaurs 3: The Seas of Doom by Stephen Cole

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

This got 1 star because it was scary. All Astrosaurs books are actually scary too.

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Dogbird: And Other Mixed-Up Tales

Dogbird: And Other Mixed-Up Tales by Paul Stewart

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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Don't Lick the Dog: Making Friends with Dogs

Don't Lick the Dog: Making Friends with Dogs by Wendy Wahman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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Adventure on the Amazon

Adventure on the Amazon by Mary Pope Osborne

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I gave this book 2 stars because it was a bit sssssssssccccccccccarrryyy. It was scary because it was getting dark and Jack and Annie were still in the rainforest and vampire bats were getting up out of bed.

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Viking Ships at Sunrise

Viking Ships at Sunrise by Mary Pope Osborne

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book gets five stars because I really like Vikings.

I wish that Vikings were alive at this time, but they're not.

I liked it two times: When the sea serpent saved Jack and Annie from a sinking Viking ship and when Annie found two little Vikings helmets for Jack and her.

They had to find a jewelled book that was made by Brother Michael. Jack used the book to make the sea serpent come and it brought them to shore.

I felt good when I read the story.

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Dragons Live Forever

Dragons Live Forever by Robert Edward Swindells

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I really liked the baby, mother and father dragons. I liked the dragons on the cover. I liked the mother and father on the back because of the blue wings.

I liked the selling dragons.

I like the part when you just had to do one thing: just squeeze it's tail so that it bends and then a tongue of fire comes out and you can use it on anything that needs fire.

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Epos the Flame Bird

Epos the Flame Bird by Adam Blade

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I spilled my dinner on this book. Luckily it has a plastic library cover and it was okay.

Both the scale from the first beast and the thing from Tagus the horseman worked together to save Tom from a moat of lava because the scale protects Tom from fire (lava is like fire).

Epos gave Tom a sharp talon.

I liked the part when Tom found a bit of armour and it had these two signs: a tiny hammer sign and the letters T A L A.

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Nannok the Snow Monster

Nanook the Snow Monster by Adam Blade

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Nanook was holding a little bell for Tom's shield. One the bell fell off Nanook it was silenced forever. I think that the bell protected Tom from snow. I liked it when Nanook was free.

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The Shooting Star

The Shooting Star by Hergé

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My favourite characters were Tintin and Snowy, his dog. At the beginning Tintin saw a giant ball of fire heading for Earth. When he looked through the Professor's giant telescope he saw the meteorite (the metorite was the ball of fire) with a giant spider on it! But when he went to the top of the telescope (where the lens is), he saw that the spider was actually just a tiny one walking on the lens! Snowy laughed that the spider was just tiny and at the end of his laugh he said "This thing will kill me!"

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Sepron the Sea Serpent

Sepron The Sea Serpent by Adam Blade

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Really cool. My favourite bit was when Tom saved Sepron from the evilness.

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Zac Power: Night Raid

Night Raid by H.I. Larry

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Night Raid was a bit gross because Zac fell in a sewer. But it was really cool when GIB surrounded BIG.

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