The Butterfly Club

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To make things worse, Tina has been paired up with class bully, Selma, who NO ONE wants to be friends with. However, I'm glad thier new year 3 teacher Miss Lovejoy helped Tina develop independence - she was firm with even Tina's mum, making the triplets sit apart for the first time to make thier own friends and to be comfortable in thier own space apart from one another. There's also the fact that Selma's bullying of Tina goes completely unpunished; I don't think the teacher even really reprimands her.

You really get sucked into the book, and it inspires you to do a lot of things you might never think of even attempting. Tina y sus hermanas juran que Selma es la niña más mala del mundo, pero conforme se van conociendo, se dan cuenta de que no hay niño malo, sino niños con situaciones complicadas, y que la amistad es lo mejor que se les puede dar.In the beginning, I felt that the story was moving at a slow pace but later on it became very interesting. There was also something very modern and self aware in the way the triplets' mum tries to get them to see a different perspective on Selma's fractured home life; I found this an important lesson to be incorporated into the book. However, when Tina goes to Selma's flat for tea one night, she finds out that Selma has a mean stepfather who shouts at and bullies her. The Butterfly Club is yet another Wilson masterpiece; brilliantly written, very accessible, just a joy to read.

V knížkách od Jacqueline Wilsonové jsem nikdy nenašla žádnou chybu v textu, což je taky velké plus oproti jiným knížkám. I was beyond ecstatic to discover this story within a story, and to find out what happened to the characters of the book I read all those years ago. The bottom of the book are butterflies and if you flip through the pages of the book they fly across the page.BOOK OF THE MONTH - A heart-warming and hilarious story told in 25 chapters, perfect for the countdown to Christmas.