Latest Book Reviews
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The very knowledgeable and talented Penny Tassoni MBE gifts us with Time to Care. This picture book teaches our children a fundamental li...
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Time to Go to Nursery is an absolute must-have book to help prepare any child for starting nursery or to settle any children who have alr...
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This is a beautiful board book that cleverly takes the introduction of colour a little further than most board books for young children. In Tim Hopgood's...
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Prepare to fall head over heels in love with Ruffles and his little puppy friends in David Melling's latest picture book series for young readers. Beautif...
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Percy the Park Keeper has been a common addition to libraries and book collections for over 30 years and this latest release is aimed at the youngest of P...
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What a joyful approach to counting, I can see fun-loving youngsters really enjoying this journey on the 'Numbers Train'! In this space-themed counting boo...
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Never Mess with a Pirate Princess is a brilliant pirate adventure book which refreshingly has a female main character. This is the newest...
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This is quite literally a game of cat and mouse… well, switch the mouse to and rat and add in a hat and a bat and you've got a highly energetic and hilari...
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The Wide, Wide Sea, published by Nosy Crow and in collaboration with the National Trust is an empowering story about preserving our beach...
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Children often feel the pressure to perform in large parts of their lives - from social circles, to school and even the sports field. Children are even mo...
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The Big Bad Wolf is late again and is ruining stories as he rushes through the forest to Grandma's house. The Three Little Pigs, Grandma and the rest of t...
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I read this book to a class of 30 reception children who were excited by the front cover and who the characters were. The children liked joining in with t...
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A Hundred and One Daffodils is a great book for early readers who are just starting to build their fluency and reading stamina. The brigh...
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Part of the 'Bloomsbury Young Readers' story, Let's Play, Daddy Bear! is a beginners chapter book that early readers will enjoy. Little B...
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The front cover of Story Soup is full of details about the characters and what might happen in the story, and it's a great hook into this...
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Chameleon can make himself invisible by blending in with his surroundings. This opens up the opportunity for him to be mischievous with his jungle friends...
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Charlie Palmer is no ordinary Llama. She is a secret agent on a special mission to find some missing underpants! I loved Charlie Palmer, 00-LLama, a stron...
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This front cover entices you in by the familiar characters who all look slightly flummoxed and perhaps a little grumpy so the children in my class were ea...
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A heart-warming story of Sila who is desperately missing her mother after she is sent away for immigration issues. As weeks turn to months, she becomes wi...
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With a jam factory, a jealous neighbour and Fizzbee the alien, what's not to like about this book? There's enough humour in An Alien in the Jam Fa...
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I absolutely fell in love with this modern but classic feeling magical, fantastical adventure. 11 year old Edie Winter helps out with Dad's job at the Lon...
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This is the third Hope Jones book in the series. This time, the impassioned and pro-active Hope has air pollution on her mind (as well as lungs) and with...
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24 Hours in the Stone Age is one of the best resources I have found written for this time period. It is written in an incredibly engaging...
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A book written for junior crime detectives! Kate and her accomplice Rupert the mouse, are embarking on a train journey to the Arctic. However, not long af...
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The Elephant in the Room is a beautiful, gentle and moving story of the pain of family separation and of the support in finding new frien...
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Faith and her young brother Noah live with their mother in The Lookout; a crumbling house, teetering on the edge of a Dorset cliff top. Faith's father has...
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Life Skills by Keilly Swift is a brilliant guide, teaching children essential life skills that they will undoubtedly need as they grow up. Helping childre...
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The author's own background (which we read on one of the preliminary pages of The Mysterious Life of Dr Barry: A Surgeon Unlike Any Other...
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It is the time of The Choosing, the rite of passage ceremony when all of the island's 13 year olds are chosen by one of the four Elementals - Earth, Air,...
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Born in China, Lili was adopted when 18 months by her English father and Scottish mother. Together with her little sister, Alice, who they adopted from Ka...
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An original story about finding your place in the world and the struggles many teenagers feel to fit in. The Climbers will really appeal...
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Ajela is hungry for adventure. While life at home is Seville, helping in the family taverna and trying to escape from her loving family's ladylike expecta...
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The Mystery of the Night Watchers is such a lovely read. As Haley's comet is drawing ever closer to earth a mother uproots her daughters...
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Mizuki is troubled. Her grandfather does not seem like the man she once knew and one day he reveals a secret that has been burdening him for many years. M...
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Red Sky Burning is the second instalment of The Circle Trilogy from the amazing YA author Teri Terry. Her books are desc...
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Robin Hood: Jet Skis, Swamps and Smugglers is the third book in this action-packed adventure series by the master storyteller Robert Much...
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With her debut novel for young adults, Every Line of You, Gibson has created a captivating, thought-provoking, tense thriller of a page-t...
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Five friends decide to enter the Iron Teen - a problem solving, endurance test on a remote island in the Shetlands, hosted by the Gold Foundation. The tea...
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Any Way The Wind Blows is the final book of the Simon Snow series from the author, Rainbow Rowell. This book is a finale; it tells secret...
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Gripping from the outset, Chris Whittaker's first book for young adults is a compulsive dystopian page-turner that charts the devastation, fear and disill...
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I really enjoyed Raising Hell because I liked the theme of black magic. This book helps to imagine what would happen if magic was actuall...
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Emmanual Acho is a Nigerian-American former NFL player whose series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man was made in response to the death of Geor...
This Month's Picks
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Stories with an edge!
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Fractured Fairy Tales from Lou Carter
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Em Lynas's new picture book about a cat, a rat - and a hat
Growing Readers See all
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Starting School - Early Skills
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Starting School - Early Reading and Writing Skills
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Great books for teenaged readers
The Mighty Lions & the Big Match: What if We Don't Win? 
The Summer We Turned Green 
There Is No Big Bad Wolf In This Story 
Do Not Mess with the Mermaids 
Mystery of the Night Watchers 
Robin Hood 3: Jet Skis, Swamps & Smugglers 
The Nature of Witches 
A Gathering Midnight 
Feast of the Evernight 
Otherland 
The Last Gate of the Emperor 
Witches Steeped in Gold 
How I Saved the World in a Week 
Dino Knights: Panterra in Peril 
SkyWake Invasion 
The Three Impossibles 
Noah's Gold 
A Girl Called Joy 
My Dad Is A Grizzly Bear 
Shades of Scarlet 
Duck, Duck, Dad? (PB) 
Magpie 
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