The Book People Lucky Dips

orchid-96

Thanks for this, I bought a couple of packs today and the free delivery code worked fine....

cookiemonster25

got my lucky dips yesterday, by enlarge great value but bought the under 5s selection and they included " you can skubidoo" as one of the books!!! now my 4 year old is clever but even she cant manage to read and follow that one, still cant complain got about £60 worth of books for £7, remember if you arent happy with what they send you they have great customer service and often will replace a full order even if you complain about 1-2 books, they just usualy ask you to give the others to a school etc:D

pesky_princess

I ordered these the other day... I had gone to the site anyway and saw the lucky dip offer.. £7 is good for 10 books.. but it says on there that the under 5's pack's rrp is 112.91 ... surely 10 books can't be worth that much!? my kids (i ordered 3 different age group lucky dips)will be pleased with whatever they get but will be interested to see how much the books actually are worth.. bet its not over 100 quid! lol

ANDY597

My adult lucky dip arrived yesterday as follows:

Josephine Cox - Born To Serve
Ian Fleming - Dr No
Aleksandr Silzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Flann Obrien - The Third Policeman
Charles Webb - The graduate
Colin Dexter - Last Seen Wearig (Morse)
Bernstein & Woodward - All the presidents men
Maggie Craig - When the lights comew on again
Ross Leckie - Scipio
Mark Obmascik - The Big Year

Melon78

My lucky dip (under 5's) arrived yesterday.

Pretty impressed with it (especially as i only ordered it sunday night!).

Got 3 board books (fab to put away for our new little arrival)
couple of colouring/activity books - perfect for rainy afternoons
4 picture books
You can scoubido lol

monkeymatt

I got mine this morning, I ordered 2 x under 5's lucky dips.

I got 4 books that are the same in both packs, I contacted 'The Book People' and they were very helpful and said that it was hard for them to control what is sent out as they are pre packed. To help out they are sending out a new set of ten books free of charge as they can not say what will be in them. They said that I can give my doubles to a local school.

Can't complain at that.

jo_b_2

monkeymatt wrote: »

I got mine this morning, I ordered 2 x under 5's lucky dips.

Any chance you could list the books that you did receive, please?

sooz

Are they a book club, where I'll have comitted myself to buying lots of books I don't want for the next year?

The lucky dip sounds great, but I don't want to have to keep buying or returning books.

jo_b_2

sooz wrote: »

Are they a book club, where I'll have comitted myself to buying lots of books I don't want for the next year?

The lucky dip sounds great, but I don't want to have to keep buying or returning books.

No - there's no commitment to buy any more books at all.

purplepatch

My boys 9-12 lucky dip arrived today

Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
Stravaganza City of Masks - Mary Hoffman
The Wind Singer - William Nicholson
Emily Davison Suffragette - Claudia Fitzherbert
The Demon Headmaster Takes Over - Gillian Cross
Zero Option - Chris Ryan
The Wooden Cow - Terry Denton
Foul Football Triumphant Teams - Michael Coleman
Discoveries Explorers and Traders
Motor Racing - Tony Norman

If I'm honest, am very disappointed. My stepson, I would say, is a pretty good reader, he's just finishing off the Harry Potter books and seems to follow it all in great depth. But I would say a lot of these books look too old for him, in particular the Zero Option book which is about an SAS sergeant being tasked to assassinate the British Prime Minister (story involves the IRA and an Iraqi who has defected to Libya after the Gulf War) and if he fails his 4 year old son will die - surely that isn't suitable for a 9yo for goodness sake!! I also can't see him being remotely interested in the Suffragette book, nor the Football, Motor Racing and Explorers and Traders books (the latter 2 being a couple of skinny paperbacks to make up the 10 I suppose). Pants. Think I'm going to send a moany email. Which is a shame as I've always rated the Book People very highly.