CHILDREN'S BOOK REVIEW: LAURA NORDER SHERIFF OF BUTTS CANYON BY GUY BASS

Laura Norder Sheriff of Butts Canyon 
Author: Guy Bass
Publisher: Barrington Stoke
Pages: 64
ISBN:978-1-78112-845-9
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes

Guy Bass has brought us plenty of comical novels so its no surprise that he is the Blue Peter Award-winning author of Aiden Abet Teacher's Pet and Noah Scape Cant Stop Repeating Himself. In Laura Norder Sheriff of Butts Canyon ten-year-old Laura is the self-appointed sheriff of the town who keeps the peace no matter which bad apple rolls into it until Duncan Disorderly comes their way and does his best to cause trouble.

CHILDREN'S BOOK: GAMER BY CHRIS BRADFORD

Gamer by Chris Bradford

Publisher: Barrington Stoke

Reviewed by: Sandra Scholes

Virtual Kombat is the game most kids want to play, but not many get the chance to play it. Scott ends up being chosen and finds out how hard it is to defeat his in game enemies. This game might sound amazing, but the kids that want to play it have had an awful time as they are at the bottom - Scott is one of those kinds and after he lost his parents in 2030 to a killer virus, he has been surviving on the
streets ever since.

CHILDREN'S BOOK REVIEW: THE FROG WHO WAS BLUE BY FAIZ KERMANI

 
The Frog who Was Blue
Author: Faiz Kermani
Publisher: Matador Books
ISBN: 978-1-78589-995-9
Website: www.troubador.co.uk
Cover Artist/Interior Illustrator: Naomi Powell
Reviewed by: Sandra Scholes

Biriwita, the blue frog is considered normal in his own neck of the woods, but in Malawi, where green frogs are the norm, he might be thought of as unusual. This theory is tested when Biriwita is accepted to Croak College, the finest school for the finest frogs. He is elated at being accepted, until he sees all the other frogs  - they're green and see him as weird, an outsider who will never be accepted by them as one of their own.