The Birthday Book
Jonathon Cape

This book, edited by Michael Morpurgo and Quentin Blake, is an illustrated Treasury of Stories and Poems, written by twenty-nine renowned authors and poets, with pictures by equally renowned illustrators. It commemorates Prince Charles 60th birthday, and all royalties from the book go to The Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts. So what better way of celebrating the Birthday of someone you know than by buying them this book.
WOW! 366
Scholastic
Some young people do not have the time to read l o n g stories, so this is the book for them!

2008 was a leap year, with 366 days, so each of these two hundred and eighteen stories (I think, but you had better count them to make sure) is 366 words long. So it only takes a minute or so to read one. And the famous authors who wrote them between them write every sort of story, so there may be more than one or two or ten or a hundred you might like to read. One a day from when you buy this book, after you come home from school will last you for a whole year, and who knows you may well want to read more and more.

And the nice thing is that £1 (or €1.30 if you are in Eire) goes to Childline, a service provided by the NSPCC or the ISPCC to help children not as fortunate as you, and who desperately need someone to talk to.

And no, this is not 366 words long!

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