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Thirty Days Has September (2008)

by Chris Stevens(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

190608226X (ISBN13: 9781906082260)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Michael O'Mara Books

review 1: A nice, quick book full of handy tricks to remember things. While a lot of it is primary school things, some of it is pretty useful in every day life (one thing I have always stumbled on is affect/effect - this book contains two or three methods that will stick in my mind!). There's a lot of useful information in handy little packages; mnemonics, poems, simple little sentences.My personal favourite section was that on History - with methods to remember Kings and Queens of England/UK/Great Britain, Presidents of the USA, the seven wonders of the world and the Greek Alphabet (which, I have to admit I already knew).What I dislike about this book is how condescending it is. Given that it seems to be aimed more at he adult market, the way it's written is very juvenile and patro... morenising. I know I would have really benefited from this book when I was at middle school - especially the grammar and spelling help! Easily a 3/5 - would be better if it were less patronising and I would have felt ripped off had I paid full price for it - 75p was acceptable.
review 2: Title: Thirty Days Has SeptemberAuthor: Chris StevenGenre: Informational, NonfictionNumber of Pages: 124 PagesSummary: This informational book is full of different methods to help school-children memorize knowledge. They have ways to memorize info using mnemonic devices, rhymes, acronyms and pictures. This book includes ways to help spell certain words. It also includes rules of punctuation. Included are ways to understand grammar and parts of speech. Homophones are also mentioned in this book. The different types of figurative language are described in a section of this book. In this book are some poems to help memorize things like the Greek alphabet or the Seven Wonders of The World. There is also a very long poem about the order of the presidents. Ways to remember the points of a compass, the continents, the oceans, and the great lakes are included in the geography section. In the math section are different ways to remember the multiplication rules. This is just some of the different methods used in this book to help everyone with memorization.Review: I think that this book, by Chris Stevens, is full of very useful methods to help kids study and memorize things. There was such a variety of ways to help children. This means that there should be something for everyone in this book. Some people may prefer to use mnemonic devices while others prefer rhymes. Whatever method someone prefers, this book can help people discover what works best for them. Though the ideas and methods they used were good, I thought that some of the examples were very bad. The ideas behind the examples were helpful but lots of the examples were silly. I would recommend this book to people who want to read a quick, short book. If someone needs help studying this book could be helpful. Overall, this book was okay but some parts of it were just plain useless. less

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