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tiistai 17. toukokuuta 2011

Michelle Harrison: 13 treasures

The Thirteen Treasures by Michelle Harrison
I saw an advertisement of this book couple of months ago and immediately i got the urge that i want to read the book eventhough it's directed towards children. Unfortunately it's written for children in that way that no adult (well, at least me) will have no chance to read more than couple of pages. And it's really pity. The story seems interesting but it feels so childish, eventhough the main character is 13 years old, it feels even more childish.

Maybe kids in their pre-teen years finds this book alright. I in my late twenties didn't.

Mervi Koski: Hirviökäsikirja

Hirviökäsikirja
This is a Finnish guidebook to monsters and other creatures. The monsters are divided into spesific groups such as snakes, horses, birds etc. Each of the creatures are presented with information about their livinghabits, appearance, size and other details.

The book also lists dangerous levels on each creature and how to possible to survive their attack. For example dangerous level for zombies is high but you might escape from them if you feed them something salty. Running also helps. The information is quite funny usually but it makes me wonder why they had to write into the introduction that monsters doesn't really exist. If they don't exist, why would you need to know ways to escape from them?!

Overall the book is very good and the illustrations are amazing. The reason why i'm not giving it the full five stars is my little doubts on if i can really trust this one. The book says that for example the Basilisk has a head of a rooster and body of a snake. In Harry Potter the basilisk most definitely not had a head of a rooster! So which one to trust?! Also another creature from Astrid Lindgrens books doesn't seem really that correct. It totally can be that these other books are wrong, but they are the versions i'm and a lot of people are used to, so it's really hard to think otherwise and therefore i cannot support this book with the five stars.

John Boyne: The boy in the striped Pajamas

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bruno is a young boy who with his family moves to the countryside. There he gets to know this other boy and they'll get really close friends. The other boy lives on the other side of a fence, he has dirty clothes and he is always hungry. Bruno brings him food and wonders what is life like over there on the other side. Little does he know that his father is a Nazi officer and the fence is around a concentration camp...

I'd say this is the most waking book about this certain subject. The innocence of these two boys is so heartbreaking and the ending made me sick to my stomach for days. 100 times better than the movie so go read it now!

Mari Kujanpää: Minä ja Muro

Minä ja Muro

A cute story of a little girl who hasn't really got any friends other than her bear Muro. Her life is quite miserable because her parents ignore her a lot too.. but after a teenage-girl comes to the school to help out the kids the main character Lauhas life starts to change...