www.victoriaparkbooks.co.uk 174 Victoria Park Road Hackney London, E9 7HD Bookclub reviews Welcome to our BookClub page! We are the Victoria Park Books Kids' BookClub and we are: Lisa - Year 3 Matilda (Tilly) - Year 3 Rana - Year 3 Sophie - Year 3 Jessica - Year 4 Maja - Year 4 Olive - Year 4 Maddi - Year 5 Nina (Sparky) - Year 5 and Isadora - Year 5 We all live in Victoria Park (except for Jessica who lives in Hockley in Essex) and we go to different schools. But we are all avid readers and love our books so much that we get together every month or so (and drink squash and eat biscuits) and talk about one book which we have all read that month. We will post our impressions on this page after every bookclub.  Some of the books we read will not be published yet so if you are not a member of the bookclub but just want to know what's good and perfect for a 7-10 year old girl then you could have a look at what we say My book report on: How Kirsty Jenkins stole the Elephant. Its a very exiting book my favourite part was when Dawn,Ben and Kirsty were telling everyone that they stole the Elephant. My least favourite bit was when Dawn threw jumpers at Kirsty and Dawn kicked Kirsty out of Kirsty's room. I like the way Kirsty has a huge and very creative imagination. Angela Dawn and bens mum loves makeup and wants her beauty salon to be famous so when Kirsty wants the allotment Angela makes Kirsty stand in the salon when a friend of Angelas who is a photogrefer comes round to try and get her salon famous and help Kirsty get the allotment... Probobly. Overall the book was brilliant from Olive. How Kirsty Jenkins stole the elephant is a really brilliant book. I liked the fact that Dawn and Ben were the kids who had witnessed divorce and not Kirsty because usually it is the other way around. Another thing I liked about this book was that Angela (Dawn and Bens mum) was in it. One more thing that was good was that they all cared about their grandpa's allotment. I don't really have any bad feedback about this book but I think Mr Thomas and Kirsty maybe could have been friends a bit more afterwards because I think Mr Thomas just sort of faded out of the picture. The best bit in my opinion was when all the police came with all the helicopters and the TV crew for the news go the first footage of the uproar. Over all I thought this was a very good book and would definitely recommend it to other people. By Sparky How Kirsty Jenkins stole the Elephant I enjoyed reading this book very much. My favourite part was right at the beginning when Kirsty imagines she is in a jungle. It made me want to be in an allotment and look up at the plants just like she did. I also liked the part where she is at home and she puts on her dad's records very loudly. When she is in the museum at the end of the story and stealing the elephant it gets quite mad and I thought she was very clever to get the elephant out into the street. Overall this book was fun. It made me laugh and I thought that all the children were brave and kind. by Elen Caldecott review by Lisa Scheerlinck If you would like to send us a review please email it to: Email: info@victoriaparkbooks.co.uk Copyright Victoria Park Books Ltd. 2010                                web design & hosting by: www.dgt.uk.net How Kirsty Jenkins Stole The Elephant by Elen Caldecott