Language for Personal Response

I really enjoyed ‘James and the Giant Peach’. It is an amazing story.

I disliked the science fiction book I have just read. The aliens were so scary.

Some sentence starters that we can use in writing book reviews:I think that…. I didn’t enjoy…I liked…. I found the book…I feel that….I didn’t like…I enjoyed…I disliked….

Adjectives help us describe the book we are reviewing. We also use adjectives to talk about the story and the characters.

‘James and the Giant Peach’ is an exciting book.

The characters in the book were interesting.

‘The Little Prince’ is an unusual story, and it tells us a serious message.

Adjectives for describing books

humorous, fantastic, meaningful, fascinating, boring, sad, touching, funny

Adjectives for describing characterskind, cruel, strange, quirky, nasty, evil, good, brave, cowardly, honest, lazy, hardworking

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