Children Book Reviews

Name: Louisa Farrow
08 March 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Zélie Dutta may be able to crush the head of a cobra with a bare heel, lick her elbow and peel a banana with her toes, but for all that she is stuck working as a maid in Paris where all the other servants think she is a witch. She has never fully understood why she has been shipped there from...

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Name: Maria Faithorn
08 March 2024;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

YES! Rex, the dinosaur in disguise, is back! Rex has made it in the human world, and is now a PE teacher! However, not everyone is happy about monsters being involved in society and when all the grumpy pigs... gwinty squids... guinea pigs! go missing at the fair, Rex is the obvious culprit. Bu...

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Name: Sharon Porter
08 March 2024;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

This feisty graphic novel is described as a mission to be the best wizard in the world world in the blurb, and it does not disappoint. There is magic, motorcycles and adventure throughout as Cactus Kid tries to attain his must desired chunk of star rock to complete his wizard training. Little...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
08 March 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Jessica moves around the world with her scientist parents. She finds each move difficult as she has to make new friends and then leave them. This time the family are in South America, in the heart of the rainforest, while her parents research frogs. Jessica meets a local girl, Renata, and they...

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Name: Tracy Parvin
08 March 2024;

Genre: Science Fiction

Have you ever watched a film wishing that you were a part of the action, the hero, the person who saves the town, saves the day, saves the world?  You need wish no more. Welcome to 4Di, the fantastical immersive cinematic technology, technology that (so far) can only be experienced at the Blac...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
08 March 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

Since the death of her parents, Aliyah has lived in Cairo with her grandfather, Geddo. Recently, he has been acting strangely, disappearing for hours on end and forgetting her birthday. When a mysterious gift arrives, things change dramatically. Geddo is taken away and Aliya finds herself whis...

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Name: Emma Urbonas
07 March 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Secrets of the Snakestone is a thoroughly enjoyable read that thrusts you into the underbelly of 1800s Paris, joining two children in their search of a mystical stone to keep it from the clutches of an evil society. Zélie and Jules make for enthralling characters whom y...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
07 March 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Croaky: Search for the Sasquatch is another amazing book by the talented author Matty Long. Croaky has many qualities that children will be able to identify with. Croaky finds it difficult to make friends so his Aunt Lilly suggests that he joins the Woggle Scouts. Hoping for a...

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Name: Jane Rew
07 March 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

The Dark Portal (book one of The Deptford Mice series) may be a classic, but very many young readers will not have heard of it, let alone read it. Indeed, with its new illustrations both inside and on the cover, it could surely pass as a brand new title and is sure to ignite t...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
06 March 2024;

Genre: Magical Realism

Who doesn't love a beautiful story, brimming with magic? The author of The Wishkeeper's Apprentice, Rachel Chivers Khoo, has done it again. The Magician Next Door is a beautifully written story with gorgeous black-and-white ill...

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