A great read for my son. Highly entertaining!
I've subscribed to parrot street and bought vouchers for a number of years. It's the perfect gift for a voracious reader, we started with parakeet now we're on cockatoo!
My son is enjoying the book and the activity pack.
I have subscribed over several years for two grandsons (in separate families) and both have enjoyed their monthly books, but each has moved on to preferring to choose his own books now. This has been an excellent present for them and so much better than buying toys. I wouldn’t hesitate to take out another subscription if there was anyone I needed to get one for!
I bought this to read with my 9 year old, who is fascinated by monsters and creatures from folklore. The mixture of graphic novel and prose, and the Japanese vocabulary included is really engaging. We’re really enjoying it!
I really appreciated the wide variety of books offered each month, covering broad and engaging themes. However, the selection was predominantly geared toward girls or non-binary children, with very few—if any—titles featuring male protagonists. This lack of representation was the primary reason for cancelling the subscription.
Thank you for taking the time to share your review. As you mention, we work hard to offer subscribers a broad variety of books with different styles, themes and protagonists.
We must admit to being a little confused however by your comment about the lack of male leads. Just last month Cockatoo subscribers received Man-Man and the Tree of Memories with a male lead, and over the course of your subscription other notable male-led stories include My Dog, Wrong Tracks, A Riddle for a King and Sword of the Sun.
So gentle , but covers some really big themes . Easy to read but not babyish . A good book for a child I am trying to encourage to move on from graphic novels
My granddaughter loved murder mysteries and this one got an "ooo!" when I gave it to her. I'm looking forward to finding more by the same author. The book came quickly and in excellent condition.
My 8 year old who enjoys Enid Blyton school series liked this. She’s wanting to know if there are more books in the series.
My niece absolutely loves her parrot club box. Every month I get a call from her saying thank you and how excited she is too make the new recipe.
Would highly recommend Parrot Street to everyone!!
SCARY TIME TWISTER
This is a scary story and it's full of mystery, because you don't know if Tom is seeing a ghost, or if he's imagining things, or if time has got twisted, but in the end you know time got twisted and that’s the most intriguing of all. Once I got into this story, I didn’t want to stop reading, even though there were some quite sad bits about Tom’s mum. In the middle, Tom had so many problems I didn’t know how he was ever going to sort them all out. I thought he was very brave and he turned out to be super ingenius, but I won’t say how or it will give too much away. I liked Vicky too, because she got angry but was forgiving and very adventurous. The three bad bullies at school made me laugh in the end. But here’s a warning: there are one or two parts where it’s so scary IT’S A SHOCK!
Nearly my favourite characters were Benjie, the cellar boy, and his Captain Rat. Captain Rat, I want you for my rat, you are so clever and loyal, and I really nearly cried for you. I soooo wanted Benjie to survive. Even though he’s been locked up for ages, he’s full of life. I wish there was more about what happened to him. I really really hope Mary Cathleen Brown will write another story about everything that happened to Benjie. Maybe she could write a story where Vicky gets a time twist and it’s about all that happened next to Benjie???
I really liked the activity pack that came with the book especially the astronomy puzzle in it because it made me look up the word Supernova and Hypergalaxy and the pictures are amazing, so I understand why Tom wants to be an astronomer. The pack had some good ideas for what to think about, especially what the future holds for Tom. I think he’ll go far, very far – as far as Mars?? But I hope he comes back, because I might want to marry him!
This book is really different, it’s exciting, it makes you wonder about time twisting, it’s full of colourful characters, a few mean ones, a really scary one, three or four people you love and really really want things to go right for, and a brilliant ending - I loved it!
Natasha Ilyich
aged 12
PS: my dad says what I wrote might be too long, but if it is too long you can just use the last paragraph. Thank you!
Destiny Ink: Sleepover Surprise chapter book and activity pack
This is the second time I’ve bought one of these sets and both 6 year olds have been delighted!
I read it before giving it to a 9 yr old friend as is my custom with books I don’t know , I thought itwas good and she tells me she is reading and enjoying it
Our 8 year-old grandson read 'How to be a genius kid' in two days and said it was the best book he'd ever read. He has started asking lots of good questions and it has fuelled his interest in all-things scientific.
The book was for a present and hasn’t been handed over yet.
I was impressed by the ‘feel’ of Parrot Street which was why I chose to buy the book from them. I wasn’t disappointed as their service was excellent.
Due to problems when renewing subscription I was sent this pin great quality and customer service
My 6 year old finds the school reading books boring so I decided to order this as a one-off. It's been brilliant - he gets it out and wants to read. He's even taken it into school to show his teacher. He's a good reader so I'm pleased he's finding it interesting. We haven't done the activities yet, but they look good!
Excellent book, I read a chapter a night to my 5year old daughter, she loved the map and uses her imagination while listening to me reading, by chapter 5 she was reading some sentences with me!
Brilliant book lots to keep interest.
This is the second subscription I have ordered for my grandson, he absolutely loves them!
Such a wonderful gift idea. Giving the gift of reading is super and this option allows you to do it at the lastminute, if you happen to be put of ideas.
