Reader reviews roundup
We're diving back in time, forging into the future, arching across the Atlantic and charging across the Channel this week! Did you bring your passports?
Reviews roundup: your top reads this month
Your reviews have been battling it out this month for the position of most-read book on the Guardian children's books site, and the winner is …
Watch Julia Donaldson’s world record-breaking paper dolls chain
Watch a time lapse video of children's author and former children's laureate Julia Donaldson breaking the world record for the longest chain of paper dolls
Invest in Toad Hall? Wind in the Willows stage show invites funding
Small investors asked to cover 10% of cost of stage show planned for 2015 – with returns of up to 60% targeted
Reader reviews roundup
We're heading out of this world in our roundup of your reviews this week...
Flour Babies by Anne Fine – review
googleyeyes: 'I didn't find any of the characters easy to connect with and I thought the book was unique. But not the good sort of unique.'
The Adventures of Shola by Bernardo Atxaga – review
YOLO: 'Shola thinks of the world as her playground and plays when she likes, walks when she likes and eats when she likes'
Penguin by Polly Dunbar – review
Raindrop: 'This book is one of my favourites because it's really funny, and is a really happy book'
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgern – review
Lady Abigail: 'I like the characters because some are quite odd and have horses and monkeys for pets'
Four Children and It by Jacqueline Wilson – review
AgentRedfort: 'A brilliant book, it must be read by Jacqueline Wilson fans'
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell – review
AgentRedfort: 'the writing side is absolutely fantastical'
Stan Stinky by Hannah Shaw – review
Safibros 'I think it is suitable for boys because the book is about rats and other disgusting things'
Reader reviews roundup
Friendship, mischievous toys and Russian adventures are discussed in this week's roundup!
Invent a potion to win a complete signed set of Magic Trix books!
Halloween is the perfect time for brewing your own potion but whipping up a magical mixture takes the right ingredients, a lot of imagination and little bit of magic
Elephants in fiction – quiz
This week we are celebrating Babar the Elephant's birthday! It's 80 years since AA Milne first popularised Jean de Brunhoff's little French elephant to English readers, so here is a quiz to celebrate some of other favourite elephants in children's fiction