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The Bed and Breakfast Star
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Corgi Yearling, London (1995-01-01)
ISBN: 0440863244
EAN: 9780440863243
Paperback: 32 pages
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Jacqueline Wilson is in fine form in this funny and moving story of a little girl who copes with her none-too-glamourous life by telling endless jokes and fantasising about being a comedian. As things go from bad to worse and Elsa and her family find themselves homeless, they have to move into the very un-royal Royal Hotel. But when disaster strikes at the hotel, Elsa gets her chance to be a real star. Jacqueline Wilson lets the reader eavesdrop on Elsa¹s life, encouraging an intelligent understanding of her situation but never once suggesting that there might be a magic solution. Instead of letting pity in on the act, Wilson treats us to a realistic and sobering, yet at the same time smart and entertaining, story of a child doing the best she can in an unforgiving world where things are never really as they should be. --Susan Harrison
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Customer Reviews
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Great book!!!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-01-13
10 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
Characters:
Elsa, Pippa (her step sister), Hank (her step baby brother), Mack (her step dad), Mum and Naomi are the main characters but people like the manager of the hotel and other guests at the hotel are side characters. The other characters are the TV crew.
Plot:
Elsa and her family get so poor that they have to stay at a special hotel which is called the Royal Hotel but isn't very posh at all. One day a TV crew come to film some of the children for a charity show about poor children and their families. Elsa is very talkative and the cast get tired of her so they ask her about her friends. She goes and gets her best friend, Naomi, to be interview but Naomi's family won't talk to Elsa because they are told to leave the hotel all as the interview made the hotel sound bad (even though it was terrible) at the end Elsa becomes a hero.
Favourite part:
I think it was funny when she tells jokes to some people who like them and become her friend.
Worst Part:
I think the worst part is when Elsa starts writing jokes all over the lavatory walls about her step dad and doesn't own up to the owner of the hotel.
For:
This book is for 9 - 12 year olds because it might upset little children with the smacking and hitting and some of the words are quite mild.
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Fab
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-07-29
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
All three of my kids loved this! My oldest at 11 and my youngest at 6! It's a very interesting book, with a fab author and illustrater. I read it to my 6 year old once, and it was really good. Brilliant! I definitly recommend it!
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A good read
Rating  (4)
Date: 2004-07-16
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is an excellent book with vibrant vocabulary and choice of words. Elsa has to put up with her step dad, Mac the smacker, her mum, her sister Pippa and brother Hank. Its about Mac who gained a brilliant job so Elsa and her family move into a nice, lovely house. Eventually Mac looses it and they had to move into a bed and Breakfast. Elsa is a joker and likes to tell jokes but never gets a good response.
A Great read before bed and readers between 9 and 12 years of age will enjoy it the most.
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The Bed and Breakfast Star
Rating (4)
Date: 2004-07-05
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
The Bed and Breakfast Star is written by Jacqueline Wilson, published by Corgi Yearling in 1994 and illustrated by Nick Sharratt. In my opinion the story is a great read about a young girl called Elsa who has a hard life as a child, but wants to be a big joke-telling star when she is older. She tries to cheer her family up with some silly jokes but no one really listens, not any more since Elsa and her family lost their lovely house and had to move into a bed and breakfast hotel.
The bed and Breakfast star is a great book with lots of funny parts and also family problems, but does it all work out alright in the end? I would recommend this book to children aged 9 to 12 years
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A girl, her family and an evil step-dad that live in hotels.
Rating (4)
Date: 2002-05-10
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is about a girl called Elsa that has to live with her mum, younger annoying sister called Pippa,a baby brother called hank and a evil, horrible step-dad callled Mac. Elsa and her family have to move from hotel to hotel because Mac the smacker can't hold a job for more than a week. Elsa dreams to be a comedian, she's always telling jokes but somepeople don't appreciate them and tell her off, especially her mum.Something terrible happens and she comes out the hero, Elsa get's the life style she has always wanted. What is this terrible event and will Elsa ever become the comedian she always wanted to be?
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Retail Price: £5.99
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