The Book of Learning by E.R. Murray
In my opinion this is a very mediocre book with nothing very original about it. It contains the usual mix of magic, time travel, ghosts, re-incarnation, fantasy, changing the past etc.etc.I feel that my teenagers could pick up a book like this themselves any day in any bookshop and would have no problem reading it and no need for a trained English teacher to have to spend hours dissecting it and analysing it in the classroom!
I would prefer their time in school be spent actually studying good quality literature (which is sorely lacking in the new prescribed list) for which there IS a need of a trained English teacher to bring out the themes and explain nuances and analyse the depth of a novel etc. How can a teacher do this with such a mediocre text??
(Reviewed by Michelle D.Co.Cork)