Last month we held a competition to write a review of your favourite Alice-Miranda or Clementine Rose book. We have been inundated with entries and I have decided to publish the winners below. I’ve also included the latest review of Alice-Miranda in China from Reading Time. Reviews can be quite nerve racking as you never know what people are going to think but this one made me smile – a lot!
Jacqueline Harvey, Alice-Miranda in China (Alice-Miranda #14), Random House Australia, 29 August 2016, 358pp., $16.99 (pbk), ISBN: 9780857985200
Congratulations to everyone who entered the competition – it was so hard to choose as there were so many fabulous entries. Huge congratulations to the winners below – I will be in touch very soon to organise your prizes.
Alice-Miranda at Camp
Alice-Miranda and her friends from Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale and Fayle are utterly over the moon when Miss Grimm announces the camp that Queen Georgina has organised for the children to attend. While they are there the children are participating in a new program that the Queen herself wants to test out called the Queens Colours. However with competitive new girl Caprice thrown into the mix the competition fizzes from fun to over the top quick smart. This novel is a choppy sea of ups and downs the whole way through. Strong friendships like Alice-Miranda and Millie’s are tested to the maximum and the characters recognise where their trust really lies. This book kept me in total anticipation while reading it. At times I felt frustrated with Caprice and I felt real empathy for the victims that she manipulated as no one likes a bully. I loved the way that Jacqueline included so many themes in the book, family, friendship, teamwork and of course mystery! This book has something for everyone, however the star of the book is of course Alice-Miranda. She demonstrates so much positive energy throughout the whole book and is the main reason why I love it so much!
Rosie
Alice-Miranda at School
Alice-Miranda at school is a wonderful book full of mystery. She is brave loveable, trustworthy, smart and has a great sense of humour. Alice-Miranda sets off to boarding school. She is very suspicious and thinks something is wrong at Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies. The headmistress hasn’t been seen for 10 years! She makes lots of friends like Millie and Jacinta. She makes an enemy called Alethea Goldsworthy. She loves the horse stables and usually ride them. Miss Grimm the headmistress doesn’t like her so she sets her 3 impossible challenges like a test, camping and lots more will our hero save the day well she is Alice Miranda of course. When you read this book you won’t be able to put it down. Alice- Miranda will become your hero.
Jade
Alice-Miranda Shines Bright
Please don’t tell me you haven’t read this book, Alice-Miranda Shines Bright! It is the most intriguing book out of the WHOLE series! There are so many mysteries that Alice-Miranda solves and each little mystery comes together into one big mystery! I absolutely love this book because each time you turn a page, you get this warm, exciting feeling going down your spine. It is awesome how the story gives you clues about the mystery Alice-Miranda is going to solve, to help you understand the story better. I love how Jacinta is grumpy and Alice-Miranda helps to solve her worries and how Mr Parker disappears after he wakes up from his coma and Alice-Miranda helps to find him. I recommend everyone to read this book. If you haven’t read this, you have to read it now! Trust me, you won’t regret it once you have read it.
Melissa
Alice-Miranda at the Palace
Alice Miranda and her friends are invited to Evesbury palace for Aunty Gee’s silver jubilee. Evesbury palace is magnificent and fun to explore, but why are some of the staff behaving strangely? Edgar and Louis, the two mischief making twins are also playing tricks on annoyed visitors, then teaming up with an unexpected visitor. Meanwhile, why does Aunty Gee want to keep Alice Miranda at the palace for longer? And who is her mysterious milliner? With her friends and the trusty butler can Alice Miranda uncover what threatens to bring the royal family down? Read Alice Miranda at the palace to find out!
Alice Miranda at the Palace is my favourite book because:
- It’s very exciting and you can never get enough of it
- I’ve always wanted to see what it is like, in Buckingham palace, and it’s great to read about Alice Miranda at the Palace
Maryam
These are amazing! I entered this competition, I was disappointed but not anymore you guys deserved to win, hands down!
Thanks Halle – you are lovely and very gracious! It was so hard to select the winners. Perhaps you have an embarrassing story for this month’s competition?
Best wishes,
Jacqueline
Hello Jacqueline,
I’m Stella and I’m now 11 and I have been reading your fabulous books since they came out!! I have just finished Alice-Miranda Holds The Key and I’ve enjoyed it thoroughly!! Is Miss Grimm pregnant? I wonder what the child will be called!! I’m so happy for Chessie. I’m so excited for the next book!! You are so talented. Thankyou Jacqueline!!
From Stella
Ps
Rodney is adorable!!
Hi Stella,
Yes, Miss Grimm is having a baby! I can’t wait to write that story. Rodney is adorable for sure and Chessie is a sweetie. I’m just today and tomorrow reading the page proofs for Alice-Miranda in Hollywood so not long to wait now. It will be out in September.
Best wishes and thank you for your kind words.
Jacqueline
Great work!
Thank you 🙂
Wow!!!! These book reviews are so detailed and in depth! Even though I have read all the books that they reviewed, it makes me want to read it again! Pity I didn’t do a review myself
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Good job to the book reviewers, you are amazing writers!!!
Weren’t they fabulous! I’m sure you would have written a great review too 🙂
I wish one day i could enter a competition because these books are so good
Alice miranda at the palace is my fav book too
I had a lot of fun writing that one 🙂
Hi Heidi,
You just have to sign up to the newsletter and you will be able to enter the competitions each month.
Best wishes,
Jacqueline
Those reviews were amazing!! Congrats to the winners!!
also i love love the whole series and just finished Alice-Miranda in China it was AMAZING!!! I definitely recommend it!! and i would like to say thanks Jacqueline Harvey for these amazing books they inspire me every time I read them! Great Job!!!!
Thanks Ava – I’m so pleased that you enjoyed the new book and yes, those reviews were fabulous weren’t they!
Best wishes,
Jacqueline
I read Rosie’s review a while go, and before, i didn’t quite think of Alice – Miranda books as ‘re-readable’ but that got me thinking. a little while or so ago, i decided to borrow Alice-Miranda ant the palace, and Alice-Miranda at camp. i read all my other library books, not really wanting to read them again, but eventually i had no choice, as i had nothing else. and it was INCREDIBLE. I could not believe how new and fun it was to be reading the story’s again. now i am on a journey to re-read them all!
Hi Becky,
That’s great news you’ve decided to rediscover the stories. Sometimes I go back to a book even years after I’ve first read it and love remembering what I enjoyed about it and sometimes even discovering new things too.
Best wishes,
Jacqueline
Wow those book reviews were amazing. I actually just finished reading one of your Alice Miranda books with my beautiful child lily. It was so good. You are awesome.
Thanks Chelsea – really appreciate it. Hope you and your daughter might get along to see the Alice-Miranda Friends Forever movie which is coming out in November. I’ll be at quite a few of the screenings – please be sure to tell me that you’re the Chelsea who wrote on the blog if you do happen to get to one.
Best wishes,
Jacqueline