
Learning how to recognise and use everyday words is an important step in building your child's vocabulary. This bright book is designed to help parents amuse, interest and at the same time teach their children vital early learning skills. Useful parent tips are included throughout to support the learning process.
Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects that anybody on Earth
—— Chris TarrantNot for the faint-hearted, opening with a sickening scene of incest forcing a 16-year-old boy to leave home and gathering momentum with gritty, though never gratuitous, scenes of painful childbirth, pigeon neck-ringing and exploding pheasants. But it works
—— Eileen Armstrong , The School LibrarianExceptional and so heartbreakingly real
—— BooklistPaulsen's coming-of-age memoir is nearly Steinbeckian in its unadorned but effective prose, and the events of the author's young life have a universality that will draw in readers heading for their own rites of passage
—— BulletinAn enjoyable tale . . . Reads very naturally
—— The School LibrarianExcellent story, hot characters. This one just rattles along, with beautiful dialect dialogue and family tensions. Teenage girls who pore over horoscopes and worry about boys will love this one!
—— Gatewaymonthly.com






