5-8 years

5-8 years

Chocolate Dreams
Author: Helen Perelman      Illustrator: Erica-Jane Waters

Publisher: New York: Aladdin, 2010.

ISBN: 1416994541

Series: Candy Fairies

Reading Age: 5-8 years

This book is about:

Spring arrives in the Candy Kingdom and Cocoa the chocolate fairy is put in charge of the chocolate eggs. Disaster strikes when the eggs are stolen can Cocoa outsmart the thief?

Source: NoveList,

Genre: Fantasy Fiction

Storyline:  Issues-oriented

Tone: Feel-good, sweet, whimsical

Writing Style: Easy to understand

Subjects:

Fairies

Chocolate

Selfishness

Stealing

Candy

Trolls

Spring

New Girl

Author: Louise Park

Publisher:  South Yarra, Vic.: Macmillan Education Australia, 2011.

ISBN: 1420290290

Series: Star Girl

Reading Age: 6-8 years

This book is about:

This story set in space is about Adelaide Banks and her work as a SEAS Space Agent. She is in her first year and with her roommate they are sent to investigate Planet Polare’s ice melting. There is danger and not always from the aliens. Will Adelaide save the planet and its aliens the Frozellas?

Source:

Novelist, Amazon 

Genre :

Science fiction

Australian fiction

Fantasy fiction

Storyline:  Issue- oriented

Tone: Feel-good, sweet

Writing Style: Easy to understand

Subjects:

Outer space – Juvenile fiction

Schools – Juvenile fiction

Aliens

Planets

Life on other planets

Rescues

Schools

Eleven-year-old girls

Preteen girls

Dinosaurs Before Dark

Author: Mary Pope Osbourne Illustrator: Sal Murdocca

Publisher: North Sydney, Random House: 2003.

ISBN: 0375844058

Series: Magic Tree House

Reading Age: 5-8 years

Adaptations:

Audio Cassette

This book is about:

Where did the tree house come from?  The story of two children, Jack and Annie, who go backwards in time to Cretaceous period in a magical tree house because Jack wished to see a Pteranodon. All the big dinosaurs are in this book and there is plenty of information as well as a good read. The biggest danger is that after dark the dinosaurs will have all the advantages. Can the children get back to their own time before the sun goes down?

Source:

Fiction Connection, NoveList, Random House Books, Australia

Genre: Fantasy fiction

Storyline: Action- packed, plot-driven

Tone: Suspenseful

Writing Style: Attention-grabbing

  

Subjects:

Child adventures

Timetravel (Past)

Tree houses

Dinosaurs

Magic

Brothers and sisters

Space and time

Eight-year-old boys

Seven-year-old girls

Children and dinosaurs