Children Book Reviews

Name: Jane Rew
01 May 2022;

Genre: Non Fiction

Around the World in 80 Trees is a handsome hardback book that helpfully begins with a Contents page and ends with an Index. The former enables readers to navigate what otherwise might seem a slightly haphazard arrangement of geographically grouped species descriptions, intersp...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
01 May 2022;

Genre: Magical Realism

Prune Robinson is struggling with lots of conflicting emotions when she moves to a new town with her mum and big brother Jesse. Contending with bullying at a new school makes her miserable. Fear that her brother is getting into trouble makes her angry. Missing her old school makes her sad. The...

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Name: Sharon Porter
01 May 2022;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

'We have been studying why people migrate in our topic work and our teacher read us Granny Came Here on The Empire Windrush. It was so interesting to hear about Granny's trunk and its contents; such a clever way to bring other characters into the story. My favourite character...

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Name: Sam Phillips
01 May 2022;

Genre: Funny Stories

A Dinosaur Ate My Sister by Pooja Puri is a very amusing adventure story about the antics and inventions of 'Genius Inventor Extraordinaire' Esha Verma and her apprentice James Bertha Darwin, aka Broccoli, and his tortoise Archibald. This is the perfect book choice for those y...

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Name: Kelly Buxton
30 April 2022;

Genre: Magical Realism

Have you ever dreamt about having a superpower? Prune is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life, or so she thinks until one day, everything changes. New town. New school and new life awaits. Is this the fresh start that mama has been hoping for? Prune's brother, Jessie, is navigating the tr...

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Name: Emma Nelson
30 April 2022;

Genre: Adventure

The Girl who lost a Leopard is another sure fire hit for author Nizraa Farook. The book is set on the island of Serendib (Sri Lanka) and it opens with the main character named Selvi, who watches as hunters are trying to bait and trap a leopard - her leopard - Lokka. Lokka is a...

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Name: Lucy Newton
30 April 2022;

Genre: Non Fiction

Little Cottage: An Autumn Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom is a brilliant book to help to teach young children about Autumn! This book has a wealth of knowledge to help children to understand the different aspects of Autumn. It starts with an introduction to the season e...

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Name: Lucy Newton
30 April 2022;

Genre: Friends and family

A great book to help children to make the most of spring and to understand the joy it brings! This book carries the positivity of spring with it and begins to show children how to make the most of this lovely season. It starts with an introduction to the season explaining how it is a ve...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
30 April 2022;

Genre: Adventure

Wonderscape is a modern, fast and clever adventure that combines time travel, reality gaming and historical figures in a thrilling and utterly mind-blowing journey to the year 2473. An unexpected and unusual combusting garden gnome situation throws together three very differen...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
29 April 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

Zeina Starborn and the Sky Whale is a fabulously imaginative, intricately detailed and thrilling dystopian adventure, featuring the fabulously named Zeina Starborn. Just her name alone tells the reader that we are about to meet a unique, intrepid, ambitious character with a de...

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