Sunday 27 May 2012

Take a look at the books we got #11

Welcome to our eleventh week of joining in with blogger memes like In My Mailbox (IMM) at The Story Siren  and the new British-based Letterbox Love. Here we all share the books that we recently bought, borrowed or received through the post.

This week it's been really sunny and a lot reading has been done outside.  so, we've taken the books to the grass!

Letterbox Love books on the grass!
We bought:

The One Dollar Horse by Lauren St John – what can we say.  The title just gives it away.  And of course, Little M is a die-hard Lauren St John fan too.

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins – we’ve both read The Hunger Games and Catching Fire and seen the movie – all this month. So, this one was inevitable….How great to be able to read the whole trilogy pretty much in one go!

We borrowed from our local public library:

Flip by Martyn Bedford - it's received lots of book award nominations and is about a boy who wakes up in somebody else's body.

Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace was a 2010 Costa winner. It's about schoolboys dealing with Zimbabwe's newly created independence in the 1980s.

We won:

Secrets of the Henna Girl by Sufiya Ahmed which takes on the heavy issue of forced marriages among teen girls. Thanks to Federation of Children's Book Groups and Puffin.

We received for review:

A Little, Aloud for Children edited by Angela Macmillan (from David Fickling Books - thanks!).  This is an anthology of extracts, poems and short pieces that are intended to be shared by reading aloud. It includes Neil Gaiman, Benjamin Zephaniah and Shakespeare. The idea is that all age groups can enjoy this book so in one sense, you could call it a real crossover title! Reading aloud is exactly what we’re planning on doing. It is being published in the UK on 7 June 2012 and all royalties will go to The Reader Organisation, a charity that works to connect both people and literature.

Hollow Pike by James Dawson (from Indigo/Fierce Fiction especially for Little M to review- thanks). It's about a teenage girl, witchcraft and the woods after dark.  Sounds scary to me. James Dawson has been nominated for the 2012 Queen of Teen award.



(the Letterbox Love logo was designed by Casey from Dark Readers)

16 comments:

  1. I do love James Dawson! He is utterly fabulous. Enjoy!

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    1. Thanks. I've heard so many people rave about him. Little M likes the look of Hollow Pike too.

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  2. Enjoy Mockingjay! I love the Hunger Games trilogy - it's so good!

    Happy reading!

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  3. Hollow Pike is just incredible, I really hope little M enjoys it! Also I cant wait to hear what you think of Flip, that ones had me intrigued for a while but I havent got round to it yet!
    Enjoy all of these! :)

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    1. Flip is excellent; starts off relatively lightly and comically but then gets seriously dark. I finished it a couple of days ago.

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  4. Gah, Mockingjay - prepare for awesome :)

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    1. Little M's nearly has! She says it's better than Catching Fire.

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  5. Hollow Pike seems interesting. Nice haul you have got this week. Happy Reading

    Maura @ Monster of Books

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  6. I've been wanting to read Hollow Pike forever! Happy Reading!


    Check out what I got here: http://marielovesbooks.blogspot.com/2012/05/books-beauty-2.html!

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  7. I read Hollow Pike this week and it was so good! My review is on my blog! I hope you enjoy it as much as i did!

    Letterbox Love!

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  8. I'm a new follower as well! Happy reading!

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  9. I still need to read Mockingjay, love the Hunger Games series. Enjoy all those marvelous novels you got! New follower! Check out what I got this week!

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  10. Mockingjay was okay. Not the best book in the series, but still a nice read. I hope you enjoy it! And I really want to read Hollow pike :D

    Happy reading!

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  11. Hi,

    Thanks for stopping by my IMM, I have 'Secrets of a Henna Girl' on my TBR pile it looks really good.

    Happy Reading (and new follow)
    Charlotte

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    1. You're welcome Charlotte; Secrets of the Henna Girl is a really good awareness-raising novel.

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