Diary of a Golf Pro

Diary of a... #7

by Shamini Flint, Sally Heinrich (Illustrations)

Marcus Atkinson is a golf genius (not!)—but his dad is convinced that Marcus has magic in his swing. Marcus's humorous adventures are perfect for newly independent and reluctant readers. Marcus is a math whiz who is not good at sports. His dad is a self-help author who thinks Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to—with hilarious results. In illustrated diary format, Marcus's gentle, satiric humor and comic drawings will have readers laughing out loud while learning a surprising amount about golf.

108 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Shamini Flint lives in Singapore with her husband and two children. She began her career in law in Malaysia and also worked at an international law firm in Singapore. She travelled extensively around Asia for her work, before resigning to be a stay-at-home mum, writer, part-time lecturer and environmental activist, all in an effort to make up for her 'evil' past as a corporate lawyer!

Shamini writes children's books with cultural and environmental themes including Jungle Blues and Turtle takes a Trip as well as the 'Sasha' series of children's books. She also writes crime fiction featuring the rotund Singaporean policeman, Inspector Singh. Singh travels around Asia stumbling over corpses and sampling the food ...

Reviews

[Prabhjot Kaur]

Marcus is good at Maths and playing video games but his dad wants him to play a sport as well. so far Marcus's dad has got him to try few different sports but nothing has yet worked. Now Marcus's dad has found a new sport for him to try, golf. But as usual Marcus doesn't want that because he doesn't enjoy physical sports.

I didn't mind this series in the beginning but now it's repeating everything. Same plot, same humor which falls flat now and same cluelessness from Marcus which again was funny the first few times but now it's plain boring. Marcus's dad needs to stop getting him to try all these sports and he realized that when he was talking to Marcus's mum and I thought that'll be it but I guess he's got something else planned. I did like that Marcus actually enjoyed cooking and got an audition for the superchef for kids.

2 stars