Lavender's Midsummer Mix-Up

by Cicely Mary Barker, Kay Woodward, Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Lavender is playing a game of hide and seek when suddenly she hears children?s voices. Can she save the day and divert the children from Fairyopolis? This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0723257736
• ISBN13: 9780723257738
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Frederick Warne and Company
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

My Girls and I Enjoyed It

My niece also liked this book. It is a simple story but told in an old-fashioned way with flowery and sometimes challenging language. And we like that in children's books. This encourages children to ask questions or look for the answers themselves when they don't understand something. I have strong objections to children's literature being changed into schoolbooks. They would have never published books like the Little House series or any of the Roald Dahl books or even E.B. White's books if they had decided to make them perfect as far as level of vocabulary for certain ages. If a school computer program is telling a teacher this is too hard of a book for a first or second grader, that doesn't mean the language should change. I think the trend of making things too easy is very bad for children's literature. I'm glad some writers and pubishers aren't going along with this, such as with some nice picture books that are out like Skippyjon Jones and Angelina Ballerina. Those don't have simple language like the ones geared to teaching kids to read sentences and building their vocabulary. This book has a good story, and we love the way it is told, particularly the language. However, the inside illustrations are not reflective of Barker art we have come to love. They are simple black and white drawings without much detail and certainly not at all similar to the picture on the cover. If you are looking for Barker art, then the paper dolls book or sticker books would be a better bet. Other fairy series books we are enjoying: Primrose and the Magic Snowglobe (Fairy Chronicles) Katie The Kitten Fairy (Pet Fairies)

Lovely books for younger listeners or young Able readers

The interest level of these books is aimed at lower grades, the stories are pleasant, not violent, scary or obnoxious. The vocabulary/text level is much higher.It is not simple or dumbed down to be a 'reader'.On the ar web site this series have reading levels that range from 5 to 6.3 and this text is a 6.2 This book is great for very able younger readers, and we have bought them for 5 and 7 years old girls who started to read early and read fluently but need age appropriate stories and they LOVE them and gobble them up. So a good listen for younger children and a good read for advanced younger readers. The Daisy meadows series of Rainbow magic fairy books are great reads at ar reading level 3 up