REVIEW: Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian

Title: Goodnight Mister Tom
Author: Michelle Magorian
Publisher: Puffin
Format: Paperback
Pages: 358 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

London is poised on the brink of World War II. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech -- the abused child of a single mother -- is evacuated to the English countryside. At first, he is terrified of everything, of the country sounds and sights, even of Mr Tom, the gruff, kindly old man who has taken him in. But gradually Willie forgets the hate and despair of his past. He learns to love a world he never knew existed, a world of friendship and affection in which harsh words and daily beatings have no place. Then a telegram comes. Willie must return to his mother in London. When weeks pass by with no word from Willie, Mr Tom sets out for London to look for the young boy he has come to love as a son. 

REVIEW: James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl

James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
Publisher: Puffin
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176 Pages
Rating: ★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects - all waiting to take James on a magical adventure. But where will they go in their GIANT PEACH and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way? There's only one way to find out . .