From the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Best Book for
Younger Readers - Red House Children's Book Award, the Waterstones
Children's Book Prize 5 - 12 year-olds and the Blue Peter Best
Story Book Award 2013, comes the ninth amazing instalment of this
brilliant series!
TIPS FOR BEING TOP OF THE CLASS
(Sadly...I did NONE of these things.)
1. Stay awake in lessons (it helps.)
2. Don't draw HILARIOUS pictures of your teachers.
3. AVOID the class bully to stay out of trouble.
4. Don't let Mum and Dad write ANYTHING in your school planner.
5. Don't let your grumpy sister Delia BOSS you around. (Technically
not a school issue - but still important.)
I'm TRYING to get voted onto the school council as well - but thanks
to the ABOVE list it's not exactly going to plan.
Top Of The Class (Nearly) is the ninth Tom Gates book and is a delightful read for younger children. I have never read a Tom Gates book before, but I dived headfirst into book 9, incredibly impressed by the fantastic layout of this book. It’s filled with tons of different fonts and different font sizes, there’s drawings of the characters in various situations and it feels like it’s interactive (even though it isn’t). It’s fully immersive and that’s incredible.
You don’t actually need to even have read the previous 8 books, because this reads easily by itself (although I WILL be reading the previous 8 books simply because of how amazing this one was). 8-12 year old children will absolutely gobble this up - it’s so easy to digest, with tons of learning opportunities for new words to extend kids’ vocabulary.
Liz Pichon is extremely talented - she writes and does the drawings for these books and she’s made Tom so likeable and easy to root for. I genuinely loved Top of the Class (Nearly) and I can’t believe this is my first foray into Tom Gates’ world because it was fantastic and I didn’t want it to end!
