The Last Firefox (The Last Firefox, 1)

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It's great to see an adoptive family with same-sex parents as incidental to an enchanting tale about loyalty, love, self-confidence and finding your inner courage. Swept up into an unexpected adventure to protect his flammable friend, Charlie's going to need to find the bravery he never thought he had, if he's going to save the last firefox . . . With regards to Charlie and his friends, I thought the friendship at the heart of this book exceptionally well done. Over the course of The Last Firefox, we get to see a character go through discoveries about sharing his problems, and sharing his feelings, and learning how confidence can mask anxieties. I found the character growth and transformation inspirational and wish that this book had been around when I was younger. Charlie Challinor is the perfect everykid narrator - not the most popular or sportiest kid in school - but kind, smart and funny right from the start, with two ferociously devoted friends (Lippy & Roo) at school and two equally devoted and loving Dads at home. Kids everywhere will relate to Charlies struggles with the school bullies, and with worrying he's Not Enough compared to brilliance he sees in those who love him most - in particular, his heroic firefighter Dad and fearlessly hilarious Lippy and Roo, who each have their own unique tactics for dealing with the school bullies.

This was a nice read with beautiful illustrations. I love reading about Charlie and his Dad’s. As well as his relationship with Cadno. Before going to London and seeing this book in multiple bookstores (where I bought myself a copy without even reading the plot, because it was too cute), I’d never heard about this title, but I am glad we stumbled upon it by chance and decided to triddy read it this month.Several enhancements have been made to the Inactive CSS styles feature. This feature assists in identifying CSS properties that have no effect on an element. Pseudo-elements such as ::first-letter, ::cue, and ::placeholder are now fully supported. The last problem I had were the secondary characters: while Charlie was pretty well characterised, his dads and his friends were not in the slightest. They each had one thing about them and that was the whole character building we had. Once again, this is a very young middle grade, so I didn’t expect morally grey characters and indepth character studies, but I would have liked to get to know them better, Lippy and Roo especially.

The illustrations were super cute too, and for once this eARC was formatted properly for Kindle so the illustrations showed up as they should Honestly, this was THE BEST formatted ARC I have ever read on my Kindle. I was so happy that I could actually toggle between chapters with my Kindle button like a normal book! It's a small thing, but helps so much with the reading experience so I can properly appreciate Newbery and Catalan's hard work. Let’s start by the good bits, shall we? First of all, it’s an illustrated book, which by default makes it a hundred times better than a regular book with no pictures in it. And the illustrations were just so cute, I loved them, especially those of Cadno being all puppy like and adorable. It is also the first — if I remember correctly — book by a Welsh author set in Wales that I’ve ever read, and that alone was a plus factor for me.

The second book of a fantasy adventure series set in contemporary Nigeria. Can Sunny and her friends use juju and natural abilities to save the Niger delta from destruction?Great for those looking for some magical escapism. Recently closed tabs now persist between sessions that don't have automatic session restore enabled. Manually restoring a previous session will continue to reopen any previously open tabs or windows. Note: Charlie and his friends take a life-threatening risk on a railway line. Parents/teachers may wish to discuss this with readers.