Everything about The Song from Somewhere Else is excellent. It is the oddest, most surprising and most extraordinary book. A book whose list of ingredients insists that it will never work, but which nonetheless turns out to be a masterpiece. It is a furious, fast-paced whirl of a story that is never for one moment what it seems.
Odd might seem like an unusual name, and even though it’s actually quite a lucky one in the Viking village he grew up in, there’s no denying that Odd has taken some of the qualities of his name to heart. After his father dies unexpectedly in a freak ‘pony-overboard’ incident after a raid, Odd becomes even more so, wandering off into the forest and smiling quietly to himself in an infuriating fashion that his new stepfather and siblings cannot abide. But as every myth-lover knows, wandering alone in a forest can only lead to adventure…
Jelly Boots Smelly Boots is a new poetry collection from the vivid imagination of bestselling author and former children’s laureate Michael Rosen. The collection is packed full of poems of varying length, some only a few lines, others several pages long, and covers wildly differing themes, from school trips to dreams to food and family. There is even an ongoing poem that pops up at random intervals throughout the book introducing us to the many different dogs that seem to lurk ‘Down behind the Dustbin’.
An ordinary boy, Dennis expresses himself in extraordinary ways. Sometimes people call him Mime Boy. Dennis is happy being himself, but sometimes he gets lonely. Even trees get lonely sometimes. But when Dennis meets a girl named Joy, he discovers how wonderful friendship can truly be when you find the right person.
