Santa Paws

This is a book about a very tiny puppy whose Mum used to be a home dog but one day her owners left her so that is how she became a street dog. The tiny puppy had six brothers and sisters. One day the puppy had a major sleep in and when he woke up his brothers and sisters weren't there so he was just about to go looking for them when he heard voices. He went and hid in the shed where they all usually sleep. All of a sudden the puppy hit a rake and the policemen heard him. So they went a little closer to the shed and the dog came further forward. One of the men had a sandwich and was trying to get the dog to come out and see them. Any way the next day he went off for to search for his family. It was getting late and the puppy had been searching all day for his family but he had no luck. So he found a nice place to sleep but it wasn't as comfy as him sleeping with his family. When he woke up he heard voices from above was a boy and his friend there names where Oscar and Gregory. Gregory really liked the puppy because his other puppy had just died. Then after a while the bell rang for Gregory and Oscar to go back inside the school. The puppy waited for a while but his friends didn't come back out so he went on his journey to find his family. He went down Main Street but all he saw was crowds of people setting up decorations so he found a nice bundle of straw to go to sleep in for the night. In the middle of the night he woke up to noise's down behind the decorations of Jesus and the three wise men was lots of laughter. All at once the puppy knew that there was nothing but trouble so the puppy went up to all the laughter. After a couple of steeps he kept on stopping to make sure he was just dreaming. Then when he reached the decorations he saw some boys that he had meet at the school who were big bully's they had spray paint and were destroying everything. The puppy started barking and the kids thought they were a big sukey puppy that was just wanting to play. But then the boys heard the police car pulling in they knew it was them because they were always up to lots of trouble. After the puppy was so hungry so he went back to the school to see if the rubbish bins were open and they were so he had a huge feast and then went to where he had sleeped that night when he woke he heard the sound of voices it was Gregory and Oscar wanting to play with him. All of a sudden he heard crying from the car park he lead the boys where there was crying and there was a lady with four children and they were all sick with the flu. The boys told them that they should be at there house but they didn't want to go back for some reason. Any way they were on there way back to the school when all of a sudden the princalpel of the school came out and both the boys got detention then someone came along and saw the little puppy and taught him some tricks then Gregory came out and said what are you doing here Patrica it was Greggory's big sister any way she was there to pick them up so they left the little dog and went home. The puppy had started to get thristy and went down to the pizza place and water was dripping out of the tank so after a nice cooling drink and went and settled down for a nap. That night he went and had a look at the people that he had found in their car they were know with another family putting up the Christmas tree. The puppy wished that he was with his family right then and stared to wimp. All of a sudden he Saw a Christmas sleigh in the mall and he went there for the night. When he woke up he heard lots and lots of voices and a big fat man got into the sleigh that smelt like bacon and egg. Then he heard Oscar's voice and they saw him and Gregory saw him and showed his mum. That night they had a big conversion about keeping the dog and when he got to there house he didn't think this would happen but his family was living with Oscar's family and they lived happily ever after.
This is a very good book but it is sad in some parts.Written by Nicholas Edwards

Tilly Beany and the Best Friend Machine

This book is about a girl called Tilly Beany who gets back to school after the holidays and there's a new girl in class. Tilly wants to show her around the school. They start chatting and at morning tea time they play with Stephanie. All of a sudden Stephanie takes Bernice around to show her something that Tilly didn't show her. After morning tea their teacher asks them to draw a picture of their best friend. Tilly really wanted to draw Bernice but she was drawing her best friend at her old school. Stephanie drew Courtney but Tilly had no idea who to draw. When she got home she checked the mail. There was an invitation to go up north to spend Christmas with the Martin family. Tilly's dad said that there was a girl there a little bit younger than Tilly. Tilly thought this was her chance to have a special friend. On the way up north Tilly fell asleep. When she woke there was nothing around but sand roads, no houses, no animals, just dusty roads. After a while they saw a house up ahead. They thought that can't be their house but it ended up it was. When they got inside there was a plain wooden floor with a wooden roof. Tilly wondered where Lizzy, the girl a little bit younger than her was. All of a sudden there was a little voice behind the table but once she saw Tilly she ran into her bedroom and shut the door. At dinner when all the kids sat down there was a spare chair next to Lizzy with dinner in front of it. Tilly wondered who was going to sit there. All of a sudden Lizzy said to her mum, "where's Molly's water?" Just then Tilly thought she knew who was sitting there. She thought that Mrs Martin had an invisible kid. When Tilly had finished her dinner she heard Lizzy say Molly and I have finished but the invisible kid didn't eat anything. She thought that invisible kids don't need to eat at all. That night Tilly said to her mum, "I didn't know that Mrs Martin has another kid."

"But she doesn't." said her Mum. "You're probably talking about Lizzy's imaginary friend." The next day Tilly went up to Lizzy and said, "do you have an a imaginary friend because I do?" All of a sudden they thought of heaps of ideas to make them happy at Christmas. The day they left Tilly brought home a best friend machine that Lizzy and she had made. Tilly had wished that she lived in a house with heaps of apple trees, a cute black kitten and a best friend. When they got home their house felt very small. So they went to look in a house that no one lived in. When they got there it was Tilly's dream house with apple trees. They decided to move in. The day they moved in. Tilly heard a noise over the gate. It was three kids. They were all girls. They saw Tilly and invited her over. They played every day with each other. They decided to be best friends. The magic off the best friend machine came true because she also got a kitten from her Dad and they lived happily ever after.
This is a very good book written by Annie Dalton

Big Bad Bunnies

This book is about a girl called Sandra who loves insects and scary rides. She likes anything except bunnies. She thinks they have long nasty bunny ears and stare at you with evil eyes and that they wiggle and twitch and they stick out those evil bunny teeth. They give her nightmares. One day they go down to the big carnival in town. They did everything that Sandra wanted to do. Then it was her little brother's turn to choose and he picked the little critter farm. Sandra was a bit worried there might be rabbits so she stood there by the fence and and waited for a big bad bunny to come and leap up to her. After a while she thought no bunnies will come around so she went and played with an adorable calf. When she was playing with the calf she heard a couple of children saying behind her, "oh look at the cute bunny." She then felt this thing jumping over her foot. She told herself, "don't look down don't look down." But it didn't do anything. She thought this was her chance to try pick the bunny up but instead she whacked the bunny into the air with her foot. It hopped away right away from her. At least now she knew that bunnies wouldn't kill her. This is a very good book to read and it is written by Danny Katz.

How Green was my Mouse

This book is about a man called Mr Muffin who is a farmer but not any ordinary farmer but a mouse farmer. He had a robot stuffed dog which barks and growls at anyone who tries to get into the barn that the mice are in. One day his dog starts barking so he goes to check out what has happened. The door was wide open so he went inside. There standing in the corner next to all the different coloured mice was a lady with blond hair as pretty as can be. It all ended up that she bought two mice, one blue one and one pink one after talking a very long time to Mr Muffin. Anyway Merry and Mr Muffin got to know each other and got married. While Merry was thinking about all the different coloured mice she had always wanted, she thought about a green one. She raced outside to where Mr Muffin was and she said "You know how I have always wanted a green mouse, well I know how we can breed one."
"But it's impossible to breed a green mouse, "said Mr Muffin.
"Not if we put a male blue one with a yellow female. They will give birth to green babies. So they tried that and. one day Merry went in to check the babies. She raced out to Mr Muffin and said, "Some of the babies" colour is blueish green."
He said, "what about the other one"
"It's all green," replied Merry. They both rushed inside to see the mouse and she was right. So they entered him into the mouse competition. They named him Adam. He won the competition. He died a couple of weeks after so Mr Muffin stuffed him and put him on the mantelpiece for his new born baby Cherry to look at when she was older .

This is a very good book written by Dick King-Smith

Lady Lollipop

Lady Lollipop

by Dick King-Smith
This book is about a very spoiled girl who lives in royalty with her Mum Queen Ethelwynne and her Dad King Theophilus.
It was her birthday the next day and she wanted a pet pig. So King Theophilus called everyone in town to come to the palace the next day so princess Penelope could choose the pig of her dreams. The next day arrived and the princess was lead out to where all the pigs were lined up ready to be chosen. The princess said no to all of them except for the last one who was ever so skinny and was muddy all over. The boy next to the pig said "Hello my name's Johnny Skinner". Johnny wanted to show the princess the tricks that the pig could do. She could sit, stand, roll over and wipe her feet. The princess asked, "what's her name?" Johnny said, "It's a bit of a silly name but it's Lollipop." As all of the group walked back to the palace Princess Penelope thought to herself my pig Lollipop will be a palace pig. When she got back to the palace she said to her mother and father, " my Lollipop will be a palace pig." That night the queen said to the king, "Penelope can't bring that pig into my palace." Anyway Penelope got away with it because the pig helped with the Queen's flowers. Johnny lived in the little cottage in the garden studying flowers. This is a very good book to read.