Children Book Reviews

Name: Louisa Farrow
12 June 2024;

Genre: Adventure

What if magic needed to be tamed before it could be used safely? What if magic could be harvested, stored and stolen like jewellery? What if magic were edible? In this exciting new series, Ravena Guron has all kinds of fun imagining a world where magic is a hazardous commodity. The Ripo...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
10 June 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Bird, Bee and Bug Houses is a beautifully crafted nature book, packed full of information, ideas and instructions on activities to help young readers learn about and create their own bird, bee and bug houses and contribute to supporting and conserving the natural habitats and...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
07 June 2024;

Genre: Friends and family

Destiny Ink: Sleepover Surprise is a brilliant book focused around the fears of the first sleepover. This is something that most children will be able to relate to and sharing this story with them will encourage them to talk about those anxieties. Worried about the slee...

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Name: Sharon Porter
07 June 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Mushrooms Know: Wisdom From Our Friends the Fungi is an incredibly deceptive book - a bit like its starring fungi! Despite looking like a simple picture book, the depth of vocabulary and knowledge included in the pages introduces this kingdom to all primary children, right up...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
07 June 2024;

Genre: Non Fiction

Having already read and reviewed two other fantastic non-fiction activity books by this duo of authors (Science School and Kitchen Science), I knew that this book would be a colourful outburst of lively, fun and engaging science activities for young readers. Outdoor Science: 30...

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Name: Donna Ritchie
07 June 2024;

Genre: Non Fiction

If you are coming to the end of Year 5 and getting ready to start your last year in primary school, you need SATs Like a Ninja. It is brilliant, not only for children but for parents too, to help with homework and KS2 revision for SATs preparation. I love the ninja tips, examp...

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Name: Linda Brown
07 June 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

The Wanderdays: Journey To Fantome Island is a new adventure series from the popular middle grade author Clare Povey. Will you be brave enough to join them in their first underwater adventure as they search for their missing Mum and discover what is really happening on the sec...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
06 June 2024;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

When an ingenious cipher machine, capable of converting messages into unreadable code in seconds, and its creator go missing, Alice Éclair finds herself once more in the thick of the action, this time at the Olympic training camp, where the daughter of the missing machine maker is getting read...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
04 June 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Freya's Gold is a perfectly perilous and deliciously dramatic middle grade novel with a pacey plot, an endearingly under-confident heroine, a sharply suspicious and perfectly coiffured stranger and an unusual new acquaintance found in the unlikeliest place. The seaside...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
03 June 2024;

Genre: Science Fiction

Jacob and Kira are twin geniuses from Mbale, Uganda. Jacob is quieter and more circumspect, Kira is bolder and inclined to take risks, but both are spectacularly intelligent. They designed a wireless hacking device when they were only nine years old, while their latest invention is an atmosphe...

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