Showing Off (Upside-Down Magic) by Sarah Mlynowski , Lauren Myracle & Emily Jenkins

Showing Off is book 3 from the Upside-Down Magic series.

Suitable for 7-9 year olds.

Before reading:
I absolutely love the cover! The Dritten (dragon-kitten) is really adorable! Makes me want to read it too! 198 pages in total with no illustrations inside at all, I wonder if my P1 kid would accept this middle grade novel?

What happened was:
I took way too long to complete this while my firstborn read the book twice and says she likes this the most out of the 4 books she have recently read!

The first few pages introducing the characters were a little confusing to me but once you start understanding you can't stop! I just had to complete the book the same day even though I have to read till 2am and take another hour to write this review.

My girl likes it because there's magic, there's friendship, there's situations that are really comical plus a contest in school!

I like that it's a story about finding and working with your talent instead of thinking about what you are not or try to fit in just to please others.

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About the Author:
Sarah Mlynowski is a New York Times bestselling Author. Her works includes Whatever After series, Magic in Manhattan series, Gimme a call, and a bunch of other books for tweens and teens, including the Upside-Down Magic series, which she is cowriting with Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins.

She is originally from Montreal.

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Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets by Dav Pilkey

Captain Underpants seems to be quite popular since I was a kid. A quick check shows that this title was first published in 1999, which is 20 years ago!

Suitable for 7-9 year olds.
Chapter book with lots of illustrations, a few pages of comics and some old school flip animation to make reading even more fun. Approx 130+pages, great to interest children who prefer comics to usual chapter books.

My P1 child read the book first and when I was reading the book to my 2.5yo, she sat in to listen because she really like the story.

To be honest I have never thought of picking up any CU books for my kids because I didn't think a character in underpants would be a suitable protagonist. Read on and found that it's actually not as bad as I had thought.

I like some of the descriptive phrases and the comic book portions in the book is great as an editing (spot the mistake) exercise. The comics in the story is created by children in the story thus there were some errors (check out last picture for example)

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About the Author:
Dav Pilkey is considered one of the most popular contemporary authors for readers in elementary school (Primary school). He is a talented artist and inventive humorist as well as a subtle moralist. Dav is a Caldecott Honor Award-winning creator of more than 40 books for children.

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Monster Power (The Magic School Bus Rides Again) by Judy Katschke

If you find the author's name familiar it's because she is a best-selling author and children’s television writer! She has written over one hundred books for young readers, including chapter book series such as the The Littlest Pet Shop, Marguerite Henry's Misty Inn, and Shopkins: Shoppies. Yes, she wrote the previous book that we reviewed a few days back!

Suitable for 5-8 year olds.
Chapter book with illustrations on almost every other page.
Approx 80pages, great for chapter book beginners.

My P1 child loves science and watched almost all the shows from the old (1995?) Magic School Bus series.

Recently we watched 1 episode of Magic School Bus Rides Again on Netflix and I didn't quite like some of the conversations in the show. When we recieved this book I was worried that the book would be the same. Read through the book and unlike the show, felt there was definitely more friendship and science than sarcasm. So yeah! This mama approves.

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Hooray for Shoppywood! (Shopkins : Shoppies) by Judy Katschke

Suitable for 5-8 year olds
Chapter book with illustrations on almost every other page!

Approx 60pages, great for beginners to move on from picture books to chapter books.

My p1 kid likes the characters, and their friendship. She read the book twice.

I like that the story is peppered with lots of puns and love how they show each of the characters with their own ideas. As my elder one starts to work in groups in school I hope she understands that friends can have different ideas and yet still be really great friends!

Judy Katschke is a best-selling author and children’s television writer. She has written over one hundred books for young readers, including chapter book series such as the The Littlest Pet Shop, Marguerite Henry's Misty Inn, and Shopkins: Shoppies.


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