REVIEWED BY KADE, 6, QLD
Magic Beach by Alison Lester, A&U Children’s, ISBN 9781741144888
Kade reviewed his own copy of the book. This was the winning book review in the Junior Category of Alphabet Soup’s 2020 Young Book Reviewers’ Competition.
I like this book, it made me feel calm. Every grade, including the Kindy kids, at my school would like this book.
The words are exciting and the watercolour drawings are awesome. The main characters are kids playing at their beach. Belinda and James build sandcastles and find sticks, rocks and feathers. They’re pretending their beach is all different things like they found treasure, they’re sailing all over the world and they caught a shark.
I like the pictures and the family’s cute dog is found on almost every page. I liked the words on the last page “adrift on the evening tide”. There are parts of the story that are confusing and the picture didn’t help me.
4/5 stars
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