A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears - Kid Book Review

Title: A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears
Author: Jules Feiffer
The Reviewer: Lucia, Age 9

If you liked The Phantom Tollbooth, you’ll love this book! Prince Roger is so happy that when he comes near even the saddest and angriest people, they burst out laughing! This care free prince is set on a quest by a wizard. Will he complete it, or is his quest to find a quest? But after three reports of “no progress” from the wizard, King Watchamacallit, Roger’s dad, loses faith in him. Does Roger have the skill to get through this, or is this a quest you don’t need skill for?

Read A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears to see if Roger is born a barrel of laughs, and then drowned in a vale of tears.

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Silverwing - Kid Book Review

Title: Silverwing
Author: Kenneth Oppel
The Reviewer: Lucia, Age 9

Silverwing is an entrancing story you just can’t put down! Shade, a young Silverwing bat is separated from the rest of the Silverwings in a storm while the bats fly south. Shade has to get back to them! Along the way he tries to discover the meaning behind the silver bands on some bats’ wrists.

On this adventure he meets Marina, a Brightwing bat with one of the metal bands on her leg, Goth, a large, ferocious vampire bat, Zephyr, a mysterious albino bat, and many others.

But the journey doesn't end here – read Sunwing, a companions to Silverwing, and another wonderful fantasy. Will Shade get back to his family and stop the owls’ plans, or will he be the next victim?

Here's a quote from the Silverwing.

Magyk - Kid Review

Title: Magyk
Author: Angie Sage
The Reviewer: Lucia, Age 9

If you love magic and adventure you’ll love this book! Magyk is a wonderful book of suspense and fun. It is about a girl raised by some family that is not her own. She’s a Princess. And is her adopted family brother, Septimus Heap - the seventh son of seventh son, really dead? Can she stop the evil DomDaniel from taking over? Will she ever learn who she really is? It’s a wonderful book, please read it and you’ll find out the answers to those questions.

And if you do love this book you can read the other two books in the series – Flyte and Physik!

New Feature - Kid Reviews

The MadLuck Books Blog is proud to announce our newest feature - Book Reviews by kids for kids about the best books for kids around! Who better to learn about the best in children's literature than from the kids that are actually reading the books. It is also our goal to make the MadLuck Books Blog a great resource for parent's and their kids, and the more information we can get out there about great books the better. MadLuck Books also believes that Great Readers make Great Writers and in the future we are planning to add stories, poetry and essays of all kinds from the great young readers/writers out there.

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