Amazon books is launching a unique campaign, Kids Love Books, to showcase the nation’s favourite children’s books (ages 4-11), as voted for by children. We are asking schools and parents to ask their children what books they love and to share the results with us via our online voting form. Voting opens from Monday, June 8th to Sunday, July 5th, 2015. You can submit your votes here: www.amazon.co.uk/kidslovebooks You can vote on behalf of your pupils to be in with a chance to win their school 30 Kindles and a £2,000 Amazon.co.uk Gift Card towards their library. The winning school will be selected at random from all entries. What is your favourite book? Why? Did it make you smile? Did it have good pictures and drawings in it? Did you like the story? Why or why not? What was the best part of the book? Why? How did the story make you feel? Would you tell your friends to read it? Why? Did you learn anything new from this book? You can talk about these questions with a partner LO: To write a book review What is a book review?? Barney the Owl says we write book reviews so that we can: Share our opinion of books Recommend a book that we liked Encourage others to read So, what do we need to include in a book review? The title So that if someone wants to read the book, they know what to ask for! Title Author The author (the person who wrote the book) So that if you enjoyed the book, you could look for more books by the same author. You also need to: Explain the main parts of the story without giving away the ending! Make the book sound as exciting and interesting as you can! Here is an example: Poor Ellie is horrified when Tuffy drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. But Tuffy can’t understand what all the fuss is about. Who will be the next victim to arrive through the cat-flap? Can Tuffy be tamed? I really enjoyed this book. The illustrations were brilliant and it made me laugh and reminded me of my cat at home. I would definitely recommend reading this book, you won’t be able to put it down! Lets get going! Barney says good luck! Lets check our work for: • Capital letters • Finger spaces • Full stops Does it make sense? What could you add to make it even better?! Plenary: