• ISBN-10: 9781402714535
• ISBN-13: 978-1402714535

If you’ve ever needed to curl up in front of the fire with a good mystery book, this is the one you should have. Although my son (grade 5 ) is an avid fan, the book has kept him intrigued and reading for several days. I also have a sneaky suspicion that the book is about to go for round two with him playing Sherlock and and his sister, Watson.

The Sherlock Holmes stories are filled with mystery and intrigue, as well as intellect and deductive reasoning. As much as you try to think of ways to outwit Sherlock, he always seems to be one step ahead. His faithful friend Dr. Watson is also the perfect complement to Sherlock’s genius. Through his questions, the difficult aspects of the case are simplified and readers are able to follow the thread of the story easily.

The book is unabridged which means that you get the true version of the story and not a simplified version. My son’s vocabulary has suddenly become startlingly sophisticated and everything in and around the house is a mystery to be solved. I can highly recommend this book to any parent.

I wanted to buy something that would keep my seven and five year old sons entertained while playing in the garden. They love rockets and anything that flies so I found the Stomp Rocket Jr. Glow kit and thought that this looked perfect for them. This rocket toy allows the kids to connect the glow in the dark rockets to a plastic tube. They then stomp on the stomp pad which is also connected to the plastic tube. This sends the rockets flying up into the air much to their delight.

The great thing about this toy is that my sons were able to start playing with it as soon as we took it out of the box. It is simple to use and they can operate it themselves with no help from an adult required. There are no batteries so there is no need to worry about having to replace batteries in order for them to keep playing. They love the fact that the rockets are glow in the dark and have been playing out in the garden when the sun goes down. They love having competitions with each other to see how high they can get their rockets to go. The rockets are made of foam so there is no need to worry about anyone getting hurt. I have bought this as a gift for some of my son’s friends too.

My ten year old son is really into spy movies and likes to pretend he is a secret agent. I thought I would look around for a great spy toy for his Christmas present this year and I came across the Spy Net Secret Mission Video Watch. When I first saw this watch I thought he would love it because it looked like the sort of thing that secret agents would have. However I cannot stress how impressed I was once he actually started playing with this toy.

It really is jam packed with features and functions and keeps him entertained for hours on end. This watch will take video and still photographs and it has a 1.4” screen for him to watch the videos that he has taken. If he wants to just record voices then he can do this unbeknown to anyone else as we found out!

On Christmas day when he opened this gift we were treated to our very own lie detector test which was good fun and which my son was in absolute rapture about. He found it very amusing to see us squirming as he fired questions at us – all in the name of fun of course. Other great features include the voice changer and the ability to tell the time in many different countries. He really loves this watch and wears it constantly.

My daughter had a party for her fifth birthday and received a present of the Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics Jewelry Box. The jewelry box is similar to a paint by numbers book in that you decorate the jewelry box with sticky jewels according to the numbered grid on the box. This was so easy to do because every sticker in the pack had a number which corresponded to the numbers on the grid.

Because my daughter is still quite young, I did have to help her with this but to be perfectly honest that was not a problem as we had a fantastic time decorating her own jewelry box. My daughter really loved this gift and we had a lovely time together making her jewelry box look amazing.

One thing I would mention is that you should make sure the stickers have been firmly placed on to the box in order to ensure that they don’t fall off. My daughter could not press too hard or maybe she just didn’t want to but I made sure to press them all on very firmly once she had placed them in the right position. This is definitely something worthwhile to buy for little girls as it will give them something to do on a rainy day and they will have a beautiful box to put their jewelry in when they are finished.