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  • When Creature Met Creature

    When Creature Met Creature

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    18 January 2024;

    Genre: Friends and family

    When Creature Met Creature is a powerful picture book about communication and friendship, crafted by the award-winning author-illustrator duo of John Agard and Satoshi Kitamura. Creature-of-No-Words lives a happy life on his own, but one day he gets a feeling like "the chill t...

  • Snail in Space

    Snail in Space

    Name: Jemma Jeffrey
    18 January 2024;

    Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

    Gail is not an ordinary snail. She stands out from all the other snails and set her heart on going to space! Snail in Space is a fun, motivating celebration of believing in yourself, which encourages the reader to never give up, and to reach for the stars. From her gra...

  • Pablo and Splash: the hilarious kids' graphic novel

    Pablo and Splash

    Name: Jen Bevan
    18 January 2024;

    Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

    A hilarious comic novel which will be enjoyed by children and adults alike. Pablo and Splash is a laugh-out-loud tale about two penguins. One penguin wants a change as he is feed up with the cold. This leads to an amazing, out-of-this world time travelling adventure. I...

  • Test Trouble

    Test Trouble

    Name: Ruth Cornish
    18 January 2024;

    Genre: School Stories

    Test Trouble is a brilliantly relatable book for all older primary and younger secondary school students written by author, Serena Patel, from dyslexia friendly publisher, Barrington Stoke. The protagonist Arun is not looking forward to an imminent maths test and his anxiety e...

  • The Story Shop: Detective Dash!

    The Story Shop: Detective Dash!

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    17 January 2024;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    In Puddletown High Street, there is the most unusual shop - The Story Shop - which sells stories you can actually BE in. When shopkeeper Wilbur and his assistant, Fred Ferret, find a sleepy sloth in the shop, they decide the best kind of adventure for her is a mystery where she can play detect...

  • This Book Will Make You An Artist

    This Book Will Make You An Artist

    Name: Louise Gahan
    17 January 2024;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    This Book Will Make You An Artist, written by Ruth Millington and illustrated by Ellen Surrey, is a comprehensive book looking at all the amazing artists that have existed through time. It includes the classics, such as Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso, but also introduces...

  • Kevin the Vampire: A Most Mysterious Monster

    Kevin the Vampire: A Most Mysterious Monster

    Name: Wendy Kelly
    16 January 2024;

    Genre: Adventure

    Kevin the Vampire is perfect for readers who enjoyed classics such as the Worst Witch series or the Little Vampire. It tells the take of a travelling carnival family who all happen to be monsters- think Hotel Transylvania or the Addams Family and you're on the right track....

  • Fright Bite (Dread Wood, Book 5)

    Fright Bite (Dread Wood, Book 5)

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    15 January 2024;

    Genre: Horror

    Club Loser are heading to Neon Perch, the place to go, for a night of celebrating Colette's 13th birthday. With Songbird Karaoke, Galactic Golf, Battle Karts and a kitty of cash to spend, they are set to have the best night ever! However, as usual, nothing goes to plan and when the friends dec...

  • When We Got Lost in Dreamland (paperback)

    When We Got Lost in Dreamland

    Name: Kunal Age 12
    15 January 2024;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    What I love about Ross Welford's writing is that the stories are down-to-earth and relatable to me, yet they set your imaginations free-flying, too. It is really exciting and there is a plot twist at the end. I really liked the imagination and the style of writing with flashbacks. There is not...

  • Diary of an Accidental Witch: Ghostly Getaway

    Diary of an Accidental Witch: Ghostly Getaway

    Name: Jennifer Caddick
    13 January 2024;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    It is the second term at the School for Extraordinary Arts attended by our accidental witch Bea Black, having been mistakenly enrolled in a witch school by her unsuspecting Dad in a recent move to the very unique, ever -changing weather village of Little Spellshire. This term, Bea is beginning...