I bought this "officially" for my 9 year old daughter, but also because I was facinated to see if it could be a cut above the average celebrity novel, given that Carol has excellent literary credentials.
It certainly is. John's wild imagination and enthusiasm is evident throughout, and Carol's high quality writing style makes it flow from the pages as a fast paced, slick and very enjoyable read.
It has come up with a completely new concept for a superpower (as far as I am aware), slightly reminiscent of the Mary Poppins scenes where they jump into the pavement art and have an adventure. I also love books that have a flashback plot line running along side the main plot… Read more
My daughter is 8 and has read a few Jacqueline Wilson books, when she picked this one up I looked at it, read the back cover, was pleased it was thicker so would last her longer, and purchased it. She read the first few chapters and was keen to carry on reading it at bedtime so I offered to read a chapter together. As she read it to me I became increasingly uncomfortable that Jodie's very bad behaviour was being set up as an example of how to be cool.
After my daughter went to bed, I took the book and speed read the remainder with the intention of allowing her to continue if the behaviour changed for the better or there was a lesson learned etc. but I was very surprised at the… Read more
My husband and I sat down to watch this expecting something light - and that is exactly what we got.
It is the ideal action movie for someone that is not a big fan of action movies in the ilk of True Lies & Mr & Mrs Smith.
The story is ridiculous - laughably ridiculous - and surely that is the point, there was never intended to be any degree of realism or message in this film. It is a film to watch when you have a couple of hours to waste and want to cheer yourself up. The Tom Cruise smile took me back to my teenage years (although even for me it is over used in this film)
I have watched is several time since as "background viewing" and still continue to… Read more
![Knight and Day [DVD] <b>DVD</b> ~ Tom Cruise](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vcwYrJLlL._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
