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Bear Shaped
Name: Katherine Hutchings
31 March 2020;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Bear Shaped is a lovely, true and heart-warming story about a boy, Jack, and his most beloved Bear. The story is full of lovely messages about friendships, struggles and overcoming fears. This picture book is beautiful illustrated, and the text is shaped around the pictures with key emotive wo...
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A Little Bit Worried
Name: Joanna Hewish
31 March 2020;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
If you have a child with a little anxiety, this is the perfect story for teaching them to see things from a different perspective. Most young children often struggle with sensitivity to loud noises and can become anxious when they experience things out of their control, such as extreme weather...
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Supermouse and the Big Cheese Robbery
Name: Joanna Hewish
31 March 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
If your child loves a book with flaps to lift, then I strongly urge you to purchase Supermouse and the Big Cheese Robbery. This picture book has it all; a really engaging narrative, brightly coloured and detailed illustrations, and an array of flaps to lift and open on each pa...
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Don't Mess with Duck!
Name: Joanna Hewish
31 March 2020;Genre: Friends and family
A laugh out loud story with an important message - teaching young children how to share.The front cover of this picture book immediately engaged my children as they commented that Duck looks fierce and he was likely to have a battle with frog. We were all pleasantly surprised to fi...
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Wink
Name: Dan Katz
31 March 2020;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Ross Maloy wants nothing more than to be normal - to hang out with his friends and play computer games. But his world is rocked when he wakes one morning with a massively swollen eye, which turns out to be an incredibly rare form a cancer.Wink follows Ross's journe...
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Dragon Detective: Catnapped!
Name: Samantha Phillips
30 March 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
This first book in the Dragon Detective series by Gareth P Jones was originally published in 2006, since then it has been tweaked, updated and re-released for a new audience earlier this year (2020). This first book in the series, Dragon Detective: Catnapped!, introduce...
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Willow Wildthing and the Swamp Monster
Name: Carol Carter
30 March 2020;Genre: Environment
Willow Wildthing and the Swamp Monster is the first in a new series adventure stories for younger readers from renowned storyteller Gill Lewis.Willow is finding life tough - new house, new town, brother ill in hospital, and she keeps hearing a terrifying howling in...
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Wink
Name: Rhiannon Cook
29 March 2020;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
All Ross wants is to live a 'normal' life; hang out with his best friends Abby and Isaac; go to school; crush on popular girl Sarah Kennedy and avoid school bully Jimmy. However, a rare form of cancer puts an end to any kind of normal Ross had and, as his life begins to change, so do the perce...
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The Bat Book
Name: Jenny Caddick
29 March 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
An engaging and easy to navigate Non Fiction book that is beautifully illustrated throughout with detailed, eye-catching drawings of bats and their habitats. The Bat Book has a well-designed layout with bold captions and sub headings . The bat facts are chunked into ap...
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Poems Aloud
Name: Lizi Backhouse
28 March 2020;Genre: Poetry
This vibrant book aims to get children performing poems, alone, with friends and in large groups. It's a fantastic introduction to a wide range of different poems - free verse, riddles, rhyming poems to name but a few. There are poems that personify, poems to be read by more than one person, e...
