Krindelkrax by Philip Ridley is the book that was read with the year seven class I worked in last year. Three stars as i only read this book due to nostalgia etc and I love the story but it didn’t have the same magic about it that it had when I was 8/9 years old. I liked doing the different voices for the characters, the use of the grotesque and cruelty through humour plus the way the author tackles grief and our responses to it. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. I was really glad that it ended the way it did, with Ruskin being a great role model for children who may find themselves in similar situations (friendship-wise, not battling a sewer beast!

I felt a lot of empathy towards Ruskin Splinter who suffers with a lack of love from his parents, bullying from his classmates, and has found one decent friendship in the school's janitor Corky Pigeon. But beneath the dark bricks and cracked pavements of Lizard Street lurks a monster: the mysterious Krindlekrax. Although he is very thin with frizzy and think glasses, nine-year-old Ruskin believes he is born to be a hero and sets out to prove it by delivering his beloved Lizard Street from the menace of Krindlekrax.Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. One rather disturbing event near the end, and some scenes that could be scary for sensitive children. Corky Pigeon: An elderly man who was once a sewer maintenance man, but later became the caretaker at St George's school. The use of onomatopoeia throughout the book adds a clever and witty emphasis on imagery and creating a fully immersive world in which primary aged children are able to use their imagination and use this story as a base for their writing.

And when Krindlekrax threatens Lizard Street, Ruskin has the chance to prove he really is the stuff heroes are made of! As the children get older it can be used in guided reading sessions or for children to read independently. In the lower years it could be used as a whole class story, perhaps reading a chapter at the end of the day before home time. Ruskin Splinter is not your typical hero for the school play, and his class, including his teacher, knew this.

Suddenly Corky unexpectedly dies, and everyone suspects it to be a heart attack, but Ruskin knows that Krindlekrax was responsible, and is angry with all of Lizard Street for allowing it to happen. Mildly creased front endpaper, else near fine, in gilt-lettered green boards; in a very mildly age-toned, otherwise illustrated dust jacket with minor creasing and shelfwear. Cave: Elvis' parents who own the Dragon and the Golden Penny pub and seem to do nothing about their son's window smashing. A tale of confidence building and friendships and forgiveness and death for all those skinny ginger kids out there trying to work out the world around them. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Smarties Prize-winning children's fantasy about the mysterious dragon Krindlekrax who lives beneath the cracked pavements on Lizard Street. Plenty of tension and suspense throughout with interesting characters who will capture the class' engagement, i have particularly observed in a year 3 class that this book was a highlight of the day and something the looked forward to at the end of the day or before lunchtime. I imagine they must have done a whole book topic on it, otherwise I cannot understand why it captured their imagination in such a big way.Later, Ruskin finds out from his drunken dad that everyone in Lizard Street was responsible for the monster getting into the sewers in the first place, and how it grew so big. This book highlights important issues such as bullying, death and grieving, and creates an exciting page-turning desire from chapter to chapter. It was also selected by children aged 9 to 12 as the winner of the 1993 WH Smith Mind-Boggling Book Award. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

My wife is a teacher (ages 9/10) and she often talks about the importance of readable books, citing this as a good example. It centres around a 9-year-old boy named Ruskin Splinter, who is small and thin with thick glasses, red frizzy hair, knock-knees and a squeaky voice. citation needed] Amongst the plays were Kridlekrax, the script of which has been republished by Samuel French in an "acting edition", after many years of being out of print.I did find the Elvis character almost overwhelmingly irritating, but like a good pantomime villain it makes for more cheers when things are evened out at the end. A funny school story with weird and wonderful characters by the award-winning author, Philip Ridley. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.