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Jacqueline Wilson has sold over 20 million books in the UK
and has been awarded an OBE for services to literacy in schools.
Among her many awards are the Smarties Prize, the Guardian
Children's Fiction Award and the Blue Peter's People's
Choice Award. Kiss is a moving, compelling novel of
first love and first heartbreak read by the author...
Sylvie
and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children.
They've always played together, eaten meals with each other's
families, called each other boyfriend and girlfriend... and
deep down, Sylvie has always believed that they'll end up
married to each other. They even have a magical fantasy world
that belongs to them alone - as does the Glass Hut where it's
all created, at the bottom of Carl's garden.
But as they become teenagers, things begin to change. They
go to different schools and have different friends. Sylvie
still wishes she could spend all her time with Carl. But Carl
has a new friend, Paul, who is taking all his attention. Carl
seems much less happy to be called Sylvie's boyfriend and
in a game of spin the bottle, he avoids kissing her.
Sylvie
can tell his feelings have changed and that her plans for
the future may be affected. But can she guess at the true
reasons behind it all?
A
delicately handled treatment of teenage relationships from
mega-bestselling, award-winning author Jacqueline Wilson.
Wilson
puts her heart into the reading she gives here, and it's hard
not to get sucked into the story. At over seven hours, this
is a pretty impressive collection which is ideal for young
girls to listen to at bedtime.
On
the presentation side, I have one point I'd like to get off
my chest. The BBC seems to have employed new packaging for
their 6 CD collections - and it's not good. This is the second
CD collection we've received here in the office (the other
being Michael
Palin: New Europe) and both had the same problem.
The plastic arms that hold the hinges in place (so that you
can flip the CD trays over) are so fragile that they will
easily break. Both CD sets arrived with the tray that houses
disc one and two unhinged. Getting it back so that you can
flip the tray over is not easy and if you force it too much
it will easily break. With the Kiss collection, the
compartment that opens to allow you to gain access to the
last three CDs was jammed shut and it took a serious amount
of force to prise them apart. I know that at £20 this
is a fairly cheap collection, but even so some sturdier packaging
would have been nice.
That
slight grumble apart, this is another entertaining tale from
Wilson.
Amber
Leigh
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