Families Book Reviews

Name: Sam Phillips
30 July 2021;

Genre: Non Fiction

Life Skills by Keilly Swift is a brilliant guide, teaching children essential life skills that they will undoubtedly need as they grow up. Helping children and young adults to deal with difficult situations, make good decisions and gain confidence. This is an absolutely...

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Name: Lizi Backhouse
30 July 2021;

Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction

Part of the 'Bloomsbury Young Readers' story, Let's Play, Daddy Bear! is a beginners chapter book that early readers will enjoy. Little Bear lives with Daddy Bear on the weekends - a little detail that I enjoyed seeing in an early readers book as this will be normal for so man...

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Name: Linda Brown
30 July 2021;

Genre: LBGTQ+

Any Way The Wind Blows is the final book of the Simon Snow series from the author, Rainbow Rowell. This book is a finale; it tells secrets, and answers questions, and lays ghosts to rest. Simon may not have any magic left but he has inherited the Mage's fortune, even th...

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Name: Bryony Davies
30 July 2021;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Once Upon Our Planet: Rewild Bedtime with 12 stories is a beautifully presented hardback compilation. Vita Murrow has skilfully woven mythology with traditional story telling to create these short stories that take the reader all over the globe (and under the sea) This book co...

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Name: Megan Webb
30 July 2021;

Genre: Magical Realism

Do Not Mess With The Mermaids is the second book in a magic-packed series. This story takes place eight years after Princess Grace and her sister Princess Portia win the troll-o tournament. Over the past eight years, the Kingdom of Wondermere has changed a lot and rules are no...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
30 July 2021;

Genre: Funny Stories

Nobody, absolutely nobody, calls Lin a fluffy-wuffy bear! Lin is the world's fuffiest panda and the main attraction at the zoo but it is the last thing that she wants. 'Being good is boring!' she complains. The one thing that she want more than anything is to play with her brother Face-Like-A-...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
30 July 2021;

Genre: Adventure

Get ready for a second adventure with the MLM (Monstrous League of Monsters) and their only (and highly against the MLM rules) human family member, 10 year old Theodora Hendrix in Theodora Hendrix and the Curious Case of the Cursed Beetle. Abandoned at birth and adopted by the...

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Name: Tanja Jennings
28 July 2021;

Genre: LBGTQ+

Hussey’s thought provoking dystopian YA novel The Outrage shines a spotlight on the injustice of man's inhumanity to man. Sadly, his chilling portrait of a fragmented country, whose government resolves to stamp out what it perceives as difference, is not so improbable with the...

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Name: Zhi Xin Age 9
28 July 2021;

Genre: Magical Realism

It is very magical it has two girls trying to help get the unicorns locket and I love it

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
24 July 2021;

Genre: Real life

A thoughtful, warm adventure story with an inspiring and meaningful message within. The Great Food Bank Heist takes the very relevant and often uncomfortable issues of food banks and child poverty and highlights then through the fictional family of Nelson, Ashley and their mum...

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