What Lexie Loves...
http://whatlexieloves.blogspot.co.uk/
Hello everyone! Today I’m back for this month’ s ar ticle, and I’m
going to be telling you about a Twitter hashtag campaign, that I
found a couple of months ago, called #CoverKidsBooks, and then
write a little book review myself of a kid’ s book.
Did you know that children’s books take up over 30% of the market share yet
only get a mere 3% of the print coverage? #CoverKidsBooks is a new hashtag
and campaign which was invented to encourage the media to cover children’s books more in their
newspapers, and being a child bookworm myself it’s no surprise I whole-heartedly agree.
After The Lie Tree won the Costa Book of the Year and The Fox and the Star won the Waterstones Book
of the Year, children’s books have definitely been getting more of a notice in the press, however it still
isn’t very much for the amount of market share they get.
#CoverKidsBooks has already won the notice of many big websites, like The Bookseller and The
Times Educational Supplement, because of the amazing attention it’s getting for Twitter followers
and we all hope that eventually all the major newspapers will notice #CoverKidsBooks and take
action.
If you have Twitter, it would be great to see you drop a tweet or two on your opinion with the hashtag
#CoverKidsBooks, but if not I’d love to see you leave a comment below.
Now I’m going to share my opinion of a series that I absolutely loved myself; the
Murder Most Unladylike series, by Robin Stevens.
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are best friends, despite their many
differences, and from there they set up the Wells and Wong (Top
Secret) Detective Society. However, they soon realise that mysteries
don’t come to them as easily as they may have expected, and
maybe the Case of Lavinia’s Missing Tie would be the only case they
encounter. And then, Hazel stumbles across science teacher Miss
Bell’s body. Dead. At first she assumes it was an accident, but on
return the body is no longer there, and everything points to murder.
Now the Wells and Wong Detective Society have an actual crime to solve. But with so many
suspects and motives, will they ever narrow it down to the murderer?
I absolutely adore murder mysteries and books set in boarding schools, probably my
two favourite elements to a story, and the author (Robin Stevens) has tied these themes
together perfectly, to create an extremely amazing and gripping story for girls aged 9-12.
There are now 4 books in this series, and I have read and loved all of them – Robin never fails to
disappoint. When the 4th (Jolly Foul Play) was released, two of my best friends and I were practically
fighting for a copy in our school library.
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