A unique anthology crammed with fantastic stories, each told in just 366 words, from some of the top authors in children's fiction. That's as many words as there are days in this leap year! Contributors include Roddy Doyle, Michael Morpurgo, Charlie Higson, Anne Fine, Jeremy Strong, Nina Bawden, Ian Whybrow, Paul Stewart, Michael Bond, Tom Fletcher from McFly and Nick Garlick...
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We borrowed this book from our local library and it was so good for both boy and girl reader and listener that we bought it. And a pound of the proceeds goes to the NSPCC too. Marvellous.
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Really interesting to read...
I chose this as my free book that all Year 7s get (there were loads of choices). It is really useful because if you only have a short amount of time, you have time to read a whole story...or more!!! Some of the authors:
Charlie Higson, Roald Dahl, Anne Fine, Gordon Brown, Nina Bawden, Raymond Briggs, Roddy Doyle, Jeremy Strong, Terry Jones, Michael Morpurgo...there is even Tom from McFly!
I chose this as my free book that all Year 7s get (there were loads of choices). It is really useful because if you only have a short amount of time, you have time to read a whole story...or more!!! Some of the authors:
Charlie Higson, Roald Dahl, Anne Fine, Gordon Brown, Nina Bawden, Raymond Briggs, Roddy Doyle, Jeremy Strong, Terry Jones, Michael Morpurgo...there is even Tom from McFly!
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
An absolute treasure trove: tasters and treats from a dazzling collection of authors.
25 Sep 2008
Format:Paperback
A review in 366 words
I bought a copy of this book because I thought it was an exciting and interesting idea and I was intrigued to see what such a wide variety of well-known authors would do with such a small number of words: 366 words translates into only a page and a half or two pages of text.
With such a range of, and more than 200 contributors, WOW 366 is an imaginative venture and an inspiration. It's packed full of a massive scope of topics and styles: the mini stories included are about everything from contemporary football to classic knights, animals, aliens, bananas and honey, schools and parachuting frogs. Each story is told in a different style, from chatty first person to traditional prose, rhyming verse and contemporary modern narrative so there's lots to appeal to absolutely everyone.
This is also a cracking way to introduce children to a whole range of great authors. I was slightly taken aback on opening to discover the very first story is from Gordon Brown who, whatever your politics, is no great children's author. However the contributor line-up is startlingly strong - pretty much all my favourite authors have written a piece, and brilliant names crop up on every other page: Jan Pienkowski, Susan Cooper, Roald Dahl (an excerpt from), Anne Fine, David Henry Wilson, Kaye Umansky to name but a few.
What was a good idea for a book in it's own right has been made better and more useful because, at the end of each short story, there are recommendations on other things to read if you enjoyed this author's brief contribution. Hence the junior reader can use WOW 366 as springboard into the vast array of great stories available to them in libraries and bookshops. For this reason, every school should have a copy.
My only constructive criticism is that there's no contents list and the book is indexed only by author making it hard to refer back to a story if you can't remember who wrote it, and perhaps this could be amended in a reprint. Other than this, An absolute triumph. WOW!
I bought a copy of this book because I thought it was an exciting and interesting idea and I was intrigued to see what such a wide variety of well-known authors would do with such a small number of words: 366 words translates into only a page and a half or two pages of text.
With such a range of, and more than 200 contributors, WOW 366 is an imaginative venture and an inspiration. It's packed full of a massive scope of topics and styles: the mini stories included are about everything from contemporary football to classic knights, animals, aliens, bananas and honey, schools and parachuting frogs. Each story is told in a different style, from chatty first person to traditional prose, rhyming verse and contemporary modern narrative so there's lots to appeal to absolutely everyone.
This is also a cracking way to introduce children to a whole range of great authors. I was slightly taken aback on opening to discover the very first story is from Gordon Brown who, whatever your politics, is no great children's author. However the contributor line-up is startlingly strong - pretty much all my favourite authors have written a piece, and brilliant names crop up on every other page: Jan Pienkowski, Susan Cooper, Roald Dahl (an excerpt from), Anne Fine, David Henry Wilson, Kaye Umansky to name but a few.
What was a good idea for a book in it's own right has been made better and more useful because, at the end of each short story, there are recommendations on other things to read if you enjoyed this author's brief contribution. Hence the junior reader can use WOW 366 as springboard into the vast array of great stories available to them in libraries and bookshops. For this reason, every school should have a copy.
My only constructive criticism is that there's no contents list and the book is indexed only by author making it hard to refer back to a story if you can't remember who wrote it, and perhaps this could be amended in a reprint. Other than this, An absolute triumph. WOW!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as expected
I've had this book since 2008 unread and then yesterday I needed a couple of short stories and thought of this. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Book chatter
5.0 out of 5 stars
WOW 366 is great!
Excellent book for children. Lots of different stories to cater for everybody. No child should ever get bored with this book. A must for all primary school children.
Published on 20 Mar 2010 by K. E. Hope
3.0 out of 5 stars
Its cool :)
i only really got the book because Tom Fletcher from McFLY wrote 2 stories in it :D
i thought his stories were great but the others are... Read more
i thought his stories were great but the others are... Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2010 by Shelley Leigh
1.0 out of 5 stars
What's the point?
I thought that this was an interesting idea, especially when you read the list of contributors. But, clearly 366 words is simply not enough words to make a story viable. Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2009 by Rains
5.0 out of 5 stars
WOW!
I think this book is brilliant, especially as £1 (or 1.30 EURO if sold in Republic of Ireland) from the sale of every book goes to ChildLine, a helpline service for children and... Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2008 by L. M. Cox
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