WOW! 366 by Various authors

WOW! 366 is a great book to celebrate 2008, the year of reading. Great authors and celebs have contributed to the making of this book such as Charlie Higson (Youngbond), Anne Fine (lots) Gordon Brown (prime minister), Roddy Doyle (The giggler Treatment) Michael Morpurgo (Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea) and even Tom from the band McFly.
Every single story in this is exactly 366 words – that’s a hard thing to do, and there are 366 stories in the book.
It takes a very talented author to write a story in exactly 366 words and to get the stories just right in that much space. It’s great as a story to tread to your children, younger brother/sister, or anyone, if you read two or three a night or open one at random. I’m just going to talk about a few of the stories:
Gordon Brown wrote a bit about his childhood
Philip Ardagh told us how to write stories
Anne Fine wrote about a girl who made a magazine about herself
Brian Sibley cleverly wrote about 366, in a guessing competition
Kjartan Poskitt wrote a small story about music and a coincidence
Eleanor Updale wrote about headlice
Guy Bass wrote about a boy called Jack who nobody believes
Tom from McFly wrote two stories about different things… including crop circles
It’s a really good book, but I didn’t love it so much. I guess I got a bit bored of it.
If you read it, though, you can be in for a rollercoaster ride of surprises, happiness, LOLz, sadness, good stories, and not so good ones.
I’m not sure about this one… guess we’ll have to wait and see.
PS: Yes, 366 words is more that the Twitter 1400 characters.