Books by Philip Reeve
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review 1: Oliver goes on an adventure to find his missing parents. He meets islands that are alive, and mermaids do exist. This was a fun and cute nautical story involving both humans and interesting creatures. I wish I had been able to see the illustrations in the copy of the electronic g...
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review 1: Continuing the Fever Crumb series. I had to read the next installment to see how Fever's story would continue. Same imaginative writing, excellent characters, some satirical sending up of the superstitions (religions) of the new country (which could turn off fundamentalist read...
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review 1: We meet our hero, Skarper, as he is flying through the air after being launched from a high tower by his fellow goblins. When he lands, he realizes that for the first time in his life he is free to pursue his own dreams, an amazing concept for a goblin who has never quite fit in....
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review 1: Scrivener's Moon is the third installment in the Fever Crumb series. In this book Fever has left her friends and the traveling show behind and has returned to London with her parents. A large portion of this book is dedicated to the Engineers' plans to uproot London and move forw...
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review 1: I am Reading “Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve.This book is 325 pages and is about a boy named fever who has been adopted by a man named Dr.Crumb.The Two main characters in this story are Dr.Crumb and Fever ,Fever is more of a stubborn annoying character in this story,he also is a ver...
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review 1: Ridiculous yet good at the same time. I love these interplanetary wars, except Mrs. Mumby always seems to have a slight advantage. Like traveling really fast. Although she's supposed to be weak, she can /still/ use that ampule of darkness. Speaking of the ampule, if it was on...
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review 1: It's a bird... It's a plane... It's a seawig! A newfangled superhero you don't want to miss. Ten-year-old Oliver Crisp's parents ironically go missing the day they stop exploring and move into the old family home. Oliver is unpacking the car when his parents spy a bunch of island...
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review 1: Oliver and the Seawigs was such a fun and exciting read I would highly recommend it for young readers. I was given this book free for an honest review. I love to see creative and beautifully illustrated books like this that stretch children's imaginations, and encourage them t...
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review 1: The Roots of Evil features the fourth Doctor, Leela and K9. Leela is missing the open air and the trees of her home so the Doctor take her to see the Heligan Structure, a giant tree space-station (yes you read that correctly a tree space station). This space station houses an ent...
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review 1: The trouble with prequels is that the ending has to match up with the beginning of the original. So the author has to reject any inspiration that would send the story in the wrong direction. A lot of this book is just going through the motions of setting up the Mortal Engines ser...