Children Book Reviews

Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
01 November 2024;

Genre: Funny Stories

Oliver's Great Big Universe is the first title in the series about 11-year-old Oliver. The series follows in the footsteps of characters such as the Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates with its first-person, heavily illustrated, humorous diary-style format. This book tells the stor...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 November 2024;

Genre: Non Fiction

Space: From Sputnik to the International Space Station starts by looking at rockets with labelled diagrams, supporting readers in identifying their components. It then follows the development of space exploration from Sputnik, the first satellite in in space to manned pace fli...

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Name: Jenny CADDICK
01 November 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

A return to the World of Podkin One-Ear is always an absolute joy and offers a totally immersive reading experience, taking you into an amazing fantasy world.  Podkin and the Tentacled Terror is the eighth in this thrilling, adventurous and heart warming quest by Podkin to def...

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Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
28 October 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

Mermaid Academy: Harper and Splash is the sixth installment in the Mermaid Academy series created by those behind Unicorn Academy. These standalone books focus on one particular merm...

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Name: Maddalena Pretto
23 October 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

Aria is a girl who lives with her family in a strange planet called Terros, during a class experiment she discovers that she has human DNA. Since she was very little she has known that her parents think that humans are bad people. One day she is sent to Earth to spread a virus that could kill...

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Name: Mizuki Age 10
20 October 2024;

Genre: Animals

Michael Morpurgo's Cobweb is very engaging and interesting. Telling the adventure of a farm dog, this book has lots of unexpected twists that don't always make much sense! Overall I really enjoyed it and do recommend.

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Name: Sue Wilsher
18 October 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

For five years, Mortimer Folchart, the bookbinder, and his daughter, Meggie, have enjoyed living in peace with their family and friends, leaving past events behind them. However, Orpheus Gemelli is determined to wreak revenge on those he believes betrayed him. With the help of an artist, he tr...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
18 October 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

Eglantine Bury needs to unlock her magic in order to save her magical house, Huswyvern, from her evil uncle Lichen and his terrifying accomplice, the Whistlewitch. In another part of the Magic Isles, Princess Victoria needs to bind her burgeoning magical powers or she could lose her right to t...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
17 October 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Every child wishes that they had a suit which they could put on and which would turn them in to a super hero - but Marvin actually has one! Space and aliens are topics which will grab children's attention and Marv and the Alien Invasion capitalises on this. This...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
17 October 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Who doesn’t like a good ghost story? In this the fifth Adventure Mice story, The Ghostly Galleon, the team are sitting telling ghost stories as they drink their bedtime hot chocolate. When there's mention of the Ghostly Galleon, a ship named the Piranha owned...

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