Tracey farking beaker - what IS hte fuss about?

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higely inferior to the magnificent Clarice Bean www.amazon.co.uk/Clarice-Bean-Thats-Lauren-Child/dp/184121583X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/203-1293981-14 19128?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185217686&sr=8-1]
ds1 has read it wiht me reading hte odd chpter
dull dull irritating style

lol at spike

read them to her! sheesh!

i liek the cliffhanger one abotu eh adventure cmap very funny

you are aright MT sh e lives in london btu it does haev an americna air about it

JW is the only thing that got my dd (9) reading for pleasure, so I don't care how crap it is.
I think it appeals to the emotionally incontinent side of drama queeny girls though - after reading it, dd (reekingly middle class and cosseted) asked me "Mummy, do I have a social worker?". Was a bit miffed to discover she didn't.
JW did really help her get through my breakup with her father though, and all the crappy love/hate intense best friendship stuff that girls seem to go through at this age.

I've only read one JW, mb, so can't really comment but a lot of the poignancy seems to go right over small kids' heads. I thought that with dd2 at least

clarice bean is very ingerlish, no?

ds2s teacher( male about 28)_ thinks lauren child is teeibely middle class and annoying and he hates it
iwas at him and told him he wa a very norty boy

i've fallen behind with the threads

What is this with hating JW? Local primary school ahs banned TB books which I thought pretty shocking. Have friends who work in children's literacy and all think TB good thing: kid likes book, kid reads book (hurrah!). Suppose school/parents disapproving of book is a bonus...

DH keen on things like Melvin Burgess which raised a huge stink a few years ago.

It's that Ruby Redfort and her swanky house with the upstairs kitchen.

Cod can't fight my ds1. She'll break his glasses and we'll all cry.

That Suitcase one is so traumatic. I read it one afternoon, I couldn't cope at all.

LC is middle-class and very irritating.

They all seem to centre round kids with social problems. Realise this is also true of FamousFive etc all, Aunty Fanny ob had a screw loose letting them bugger off in a caravan to scrounge hard boiled eggs from the rural poor.

Als realise that kids in care need regonition etc. Just didn't particularly want to read about it as nauseam to my 7 year olds

can callmemoll
that makes me roar

and the organic cafe

dd2 also said 'I am a big fan of the social realism genre so JW ticks all teh boxes'

no, she didn't. But she does generally love social realism type of books.

but uncle q was workign ont eh mnahttan prject fgs it sobv when you read it

i am in my pjs having had 4 hours sleep

lol

never banned them. Just told dd I found them too depressing and she could read them to herself

no not bannign
just ds nad i eing heavy hearted when we realise that was facing us at 8pm last night

Solution: don't read them to your kids, tell them they are BANNED and let them discover copies hidden under sofa. Voila, keen readers (albeit under covers with a torch).

no ds and i find em crap
he is currently reading squabling sqauds a lone

www.amazon.co.uk/Squabbling-Squads-Angels-Michael-Coleman/dp/1843622351

Oh yes. I love Betty Moody. I love the slippers they wear in their house and their sudden trips abroad.

I like middle-classness. I embrace it at every turn. I've just been to Suffolk. Walberswick is MC gone mad in white linen trousers.

Why no sleep missus?

it si fab and the brothers girlfriend

who is th cnatankerous oap