Content of a book review ?

[indignatio]

Oh wise Mners, please could someone enlighten me as to what should be included in a book review at primary school level. I honestly don't remember doing these at school and so don't know whether they should be objective or subjective also whether a synopsis of the story should be included.

TIA

The title of the story was ....
It was written by .....
It was about a [dog/cat/little girl] who [went to a party/got stuck up a tree/couldn't find its bone] and in the end [she had a lovely time/was rescued by a fireman/had some sausages instead].
My favourite bit was ....

(That's for sort of Reception/Year 1 ish. Later on perhaps you might say whether you'd recommend it to others (& what sort of others - "boys over 5").)

Thanks Bink

What would come after recommendation (or otherwise) in the evolution of the book review genre ?

Good question! - but - just how sophisticated is mini-dignatio's book review going to be??

I think it would then move on to parallels & comparisons - so, "This story is quite like the Aesop's fable about the dog which lost its bone in the river, but that story is a moral one about a greedy dog while this one is a funny one about a forgetful dog."

I would guess that mini-indignatio's book review would be as follows - if left to his own devises:-

The Magician's Nephew
I read this book. It was good. It had 189 pages. There were lots of words on each page. There were not many pictures. The picture on the front of the book is of Polly and Digory on Fledge. Aslan is also in the book, he is a lion. Aslan was in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe as well.

well, Binkboy's would go:

29.4.08 [laboriously] April 29 Tuesday 2008

How to be Topp
by
Published in 1958
Reprinted 1959 (x2), 1960 1961 1962 1964

[series
of
small
homemade
sudokus
running
down
margin]

[rest of page blank]

I forgot to include ...

There are 10 words on a line. There are 30 lines on a page. So there are 300 words on a page. There are [ Muuuuuum what is 3 times 189 ] 56,700 words in the book.

Yes indeed!
Has he written it? (In how many words?)

What age is the reviewer?
DD2 is in Year Three. She would write something like:
I like Junie B Jones because it was funny when she thort her little brother was a munky and told her clarss.

DD1 is in Year Six. She ponces on for endless paragraphs using the longest words she can possibly find. She will be a total pseud by the time she is 14.

Hi Bink - not written yet - he hasn't finished the book.

Thanks Rosa - I think ds maybe more like your dd1. Today he had to (at my instance) write an apology for acting the fool in an after school club. He insisted on using the word misbehaved (which he spelt correctly).

Thanks for your help.