Families Book Reviews
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Stitch
Name: Beverley Somerset
08 January 2024;Genre: Family & Home
Stitch and his friend, Henry Oaf, were created by the genius Professor Hardacre, and live in his castle. Stitch is gentle; Henry is large and cannot control his strength. When the Professor dies, his evil nephew, Giles, comes to take over the laboratory. Giles wants to continue his uncle's wor...
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Where's Mr Tractor?
Name: Lucy Hopkins
05 January 2024;Genre: Early Skills
A lovely book for teeny ones to enjoy! We loved the felt flaps to open - they are soft and very large and so are easy for baby to grab. The pictures in the book are simple and use high contrast colours so it's easy for baby to look at the detail. The repetitive language will be great for build...
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Spring ABC
Name: Lucy Hopkins
05 January 2024;Genre: Early Skills
Spring ABC is a nice book to begin to introduce little ones to the alphabet! This book has a page per letter of the alphabet with a picture of something beginning with each letter. The letters and words are in high contrast colours so they stand out from the background colours...
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Code Name Kingfisher
Name: Liya Age 11
05 January 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
I really liked this book, I found it very interesting and historical, learning about what happened in those times and how many Jewish people died.
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Who Ate all the Bugs?
Name: Wendy Kelly
05 January 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Well this is a book NOT for the faint-hearted! Subtitled 'the TRUE and GORY story of the food chain', it absolutely lives up to the hype. Who Ate all the Bugs? tells the story of a group of garden bugs finding out about the food chain, by following the trail of corpses. Eventu...
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Catch Your Death
Name: Rachel Bolton
04 January 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Reminiscent of a golden-age mystery novel and with hidden passageways, family secrets and a snow -trapped group of people, this follow-up to This Book Kills is sure to have readers wondering just what will happen next. Two girls, Devi and Lizzie, each find...
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Wild Song
Name: Sue Wilsher
04 January 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
Things are changing in Luki's village; the ways and beliefs of the occupying Americans are creeping into everyday life. One thing which has not changed, however, is the ancients' expectations for a young woman. Caught hunting once too often, Luki is told she should marry her friend, Samkad. De...
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Only This Beautiful Moment
Name: Stephen Leitch
04 January 2024;Genre: Friends and family
Only This Beautiful Moment is a captivating and thoughtful novel exploring the lives of three men from the same Iranian family. It's an inter-generational story about family, secrets, identity, love and acceptance - and is an absolute gem of a book. The novel starts in...
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Four good liars
Name: Ophelia McCluskey Gahan
04 January 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Four Good Liars by Sarah Wish is a book about teenagers with entirely different personalities and with opposing social backgrounds who find themselves together one morning on a school bus. The course of events that unfold on that day lead to unexpected and life-altering events...
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Rainbowsaurus
Name: Elen Green
04 January 2024;Genre: Friends and family
What a beautiful celebration of families and adventure for very young children. Reminiscent of We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Rainbowsaurus sees a family going to hunt for the Rainbowsaurus and on the way, they celebrate their togetherness and their quest with a range of other a...
