Lesley Sims

bookshelves: nonfiction, illustrated, architecture, historical-research, europe, mid-east, japan

It's crazy that this book is marketed for children! Beautiful illustrations and explanations make this perfect for anyone wanting to understand the times and reasons for castles, maintenance, and lifestyles of those within. There is a maplet denoting approximately where castles or their ruins can be found. Only one in Norway, but a whole nest of them in Syria and Japan! Works very well for this adult.

Aimed at young children using phonics to learn to read.
Bright, colourful story of Lizard and his friends who live on a tropical beach. Wondering what snowflakes are like Lizard invents a machine and soon the whole beach is completely frozen; until the machine breaks.
The pictures are full of detail and the story is short and funny.

This book was the very traditional little red riding hood story that everyone is familiar with. I loved the illustrations in this book because they look like drawings. I loved the storyline that the author stuck to, so readers are familiar with the style of the story.

The illustrations are amazing and serve to bring this story to life. Unfortunately the writing is atrocious. It fails to properly capture the essence of Alice in Wonderland. I grabbed this book from my local library because the illustrations are stunning and because Usborne usually is quite nice. Sadly, the actual text dragged this book down. I would not recommending reading this version.