Hawkrider123's money saving 2008 book reading challenge

hawkrider123

I am an 11 year old boy and my mum is whitewing. I have my own challenge for 2008. For every storybook I read in 2008, whitewing will give me £1 if I write the title, author and five sentences about the book and post it on MSE.

This is the first time I have used a forum like this so please be nice to me. If any other boys (or girls) who hate reading -:( :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: - want to join my challenge then please post here on this thread.

Rules:

• Our mums or dads must approve each book
• Our mums or dads may test us to make sure that we’ve actually read the book LOL!
• Mum may update rules at any point to combat cheating!!!!!!!

:cool: :cool: :A :A :A

NB This challenge only covers story books, and also does not cover school reading

Books I have read as part of this challenge (alphabetical by author’s surname) + favourite word

Morpurgo, Michael Escape from Shangri-La kerfuffle
King, Clive Stig of the Dump bric-a-brac
Horowitz, Anthony Snakehead b*********

Book I am currently reading

Horowitz, Anthony The Falcon's Malteser

Other suggestions of books from this thread

Aiken, Joan Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Aiken, Joan Blackhearts in Battersea etc
Black, Holly The Spiderwick Chronicles
Cole, Gerald Gregory’s Girl(another of mum’s old books)
Colfer, Eoin The Artemis Fowl series of books
Goscinny, Rene The Adventures of Asterix books
Garner, Alan The Wierdstone of Brisingamen
Garner, Alan The Moon of Gomrath
Garner, Alan Elidor
Hardcastle,Michael Mark Fox series of football books
Hardcastle,Michael Moto-X
Hardcastle,Michael various sports-themed books
Herge(Remi,Georges)Tin Tin
Hoopmann, Kathy Of Mice and Aliens
Hoopmann, Kathy The Bluebottle Mystery
Kerr, Judith When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit
Kerr, Judith The Other Way Round/Bombs on Aunt Daisy(?)
Kerr, Judith A Small Person Far Away
Pratchett, Terry The Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers, Diggers, Wings
Pullman, Phillip The Golden Compass series + other books
Riddell, Chris
Ridley, Philip
Snicket, Lemony The Series of Unfortunate Events (author aka Daniel Handler)
Various authors? The Darkness Rising Series


Books I have enjoyed before the challenge (not counting school)

Dahl, Roald
Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-time
Morpurgo, Michael Private Peaceful
Rowling, JK Harry Potter books



Other suggestions that will improve your language skills

Scrabble nights


Sources for books

town library
school library (also ask librarian if can order specific books to borrow via their catalogue: a samll admin charge may apply)
presents (print out my list of books for some ideas)
borrow from friends
school fayres/fetes
jumble sales/church sales
book catalogues you get thro school often do sets of books very cheaply compared to buying the books individually (usually companies such as scholastic.co.uk and thebookpeople.co.uk)
Bookfinder.com . You type in author and title and it searches for the cheapest retailer. (Thanks Ellidee on the Live on £4K for 2008 thread)
readitswapit.co.uk (swap used books with someone else)
greenmetropolis.com (buy used books/supports the Woodland Trust)
amazon.co.uk (new and used books)
car boot sales (unwanted presents and used books)
charity shops (especially Oxfam: good for sets of used books)

haylibo

Woohoo, what a clever mummy:-) Happy reading. Would you be able to keep the site up-to-date with progress, maybe offer good read suggestions or any particularly good value sources of books (aside from the library lol)?

Whitewing, what an inspirational first job.
xx

hawkrider123

haylibo wrote: »

Woohoo, what a clever mummy:-) Happy reading. Would you be able to keep the site up-to-date with progress, maybe offer good read suggestions or any particularly good value sources of books (aside from the library lol)?

Whitewing, what an inspirational first job.
xx

thats ok ill keep everyone updated with progress

But mum is bossy not inspirational

LOL!:rotfl::rotfl: :rotfl:

sillyvixen

this is a great idea, lets hope other mse kids take up the challenge and support each other in recomending and providing interest in good books they have enjoyed. i wish my parents had given me an interest in reading when i was younger, i didnt begin to enjoy books untill i was in my mid 20's after college, i had spent many evenings reading text books and didn't quite know what to do with the spare time so i started reading other books!!

Savvy_Sue

If I'd had this idea with DS1 and DS2, I'd be broke by now ...

DS3, on the other hand ...

Go for it hawkrider, there are a few posts around somewhere asking about book recommendations for various ages, I'm sure we could tell you a few of our childhood faves!

hawkrider123

Thanks for your posts everybody! Parents you can set your own reward per book for this challenge. Mum is only paying me £1 per book as she thinks it will only cost her a tenner over the whole year.

My first book is Escape from Shangri-La by Michael Morpurgo. This didn't cost me anything cause my teacher gave it to me as a christmas prezzie.

Threadhead

Michael Morpurgo is great!! My son (11) and me (32), love his books. I havent read Escape from Shangri-La, so I am looking forward to your review.

Penny_Watcher

Hi hawkrider

My 13 year old son doesn't like to read (unless it's to do with football ).

I'll be watching out for your reviews and recommendations.

Thanks

asea

Well done - what a wonderful idea! Good luck!

Don't forget books are free to borrow from the library & you can borrow & lend books to & from your friends too!

scrimpingbadger

Good on you hawkrider!

Your mum is indeed very very clever.

Best of luck

whitewing

scrimpingbadger wrote: »

Good on you hawkrider!

Your mum is indeed very very clever.

Best of luck

Why, thank you very much! (He is sitting here shaking his head...)

Thanks everyone for your posts. He is very excited about this, and about being a Money Saving Expert person.

Would be good if he had a young friend to do the challenge with...know any young men, anybody?

Incidentally, I'm capping his potential earnings to £366 for the year! And letting him start today. Strike while the iron's hot!