Book review of Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders.

This book was a winner of the Costa Book Awards 2014.

This book is perfect if you want emotion and humorous moments because at some points you will want to cry, and at some laugh, but the adventurous theme that has decorated this book

with special moments has been spread throughout it perfectly. The book rewards you when you read the wholesome pages and it is rich in beautiful moments that are preserved within the heaps of pages.

The magical setting will always have you wanting to keep up with the story and the author knows when to use different emotions to make you feel happy or sad.

There are 2 young children and 4 older children [all from the same family], including someone called squirrel and panther, lamb and Edie. There is also a sand fairy called the Psammead - he's not like a normal fairy, more like a grinch fairy; he's a grumpy, ugly thing that's allergic to water.

The story is set during World War 1 and you get told what life is like in the countryside,

in the busy streets of London in the early 20th century and about France in the war.

I would recommend this book to anybody who wants to read a good book.