Reviews

Some of the Kinder Planets: Stories by Tim Wynne-Jones

nenya_kanadka's review

4.0

Surprisingly given the title and cover, this is not science fiction. (Mostly.) It's a really sweet collection of short stories, though, starring a number of Canadian kids who are all curious about the world and figuring out their place in it. I think my favourite was the boy who glued the names of faraway cities to himself (the last one to fall off would be the first place he'd go when he was old enough). The first story (the Mars enthusiast without the resources to make a cool planetary diorama for school), and the one about the family with a futuristic house (for 1993) whose visitor decided they were aliens, were also great. Just a good-hearted book in general.

And in case you were wondering, the author is no relation to Diana of the same surname--at least according to Google.

davidscrimshaw's review

5.0

After reading book after book with lots of violence, this collection of stories about offbeat kids was just what I needed.