Families Book Reviews

Name: Linda Brown
18 October 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Girl in the Tower runs seamlessly from the end of book 1, The Bear and the Nightingale, into a fast-paced and even more engaging story. Vasya has grown in confidence and refuses to conform to the ideals of her gender during Russia's 14th century patriarchal society. The people of her village have...

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Name: Lorraine Ansell
18 October 2018;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Tangleweed and Brine is a collection of fairy tales but not as most people would recognise them. Retold without the usual happy endings, these stories have a dark and bewitching air with the females taking a lead and following paths quite contrary from the traditional tales.<b...

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Name: Rhiannon Cook
17 October 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Most school children would relish the opportunity to wear their own clothes to school instead of a uniform, but not Andy. Andy's Mum runs 'Eliza's Emporium', a cramped, dingy and distinctly uncool (in Andy's opinion anyway) vintage clothes shop at the dodgy end of the high street and Andy's entir...

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Name: Sam Phillips
17 October 2018;

Genre: Magical Realism

The Boy who Grew Dragons by Andy Shepherd is a delightful story of family and friendship. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and chuckled from start to finish! Although I'm not usually a lover of 'toilet humour', the idea of dragon poo that explodes when it dries out did make me l...

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Name: Alison Brown
16 October 2018;

Genre: Adventure

The clever title of this book caught my eye, it's part of a series that also covers how we get the food in our lunch boxes and where your clothes come from. Although it begins in quite a simple way, looking at the 'magic' of water from taps, cold drinks from the fridge and light at the touch of s...

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Name: Alison Brown
16 October 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Caterpillar and Bean is a beautifully-presented book that takes a slightly different approach to metamorphosis from other picture books by showing a caterpillar's changing stages against the backdrop of a bean plant, so we see how interconnected they are. First we see the bean plant starting to g...

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Name: Emily Age 10
16 October 2018;

Genre: Fantasy

I liked this book because it was a fantasy and a little bit creepy. Evangeline is learning to be a haunt huntress and be able to identify all creatures. When she and her grandmother are called to New Orleans to banish some creatures,Evangeline discovers a secret in her family she never knew...

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Name: Emily Age 10
16 October 2018;

Genre: Adventure

I liked this book because it was quite different from other books I have read. Chloe has lost her smile, she's looked everywhere. Until one night, she is whisked away on a magical adventure that is out of this world.

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Name: Emily Age 10
16 October 2018;

Genre: Adventure

I loved this book so much!!It is very mysterious and is one of the best books in the world!!!!! Boy and Violet are back for another adventure, and this is one to get the heart pounding! Things are going missing in Town and lots of people are naming Boy the main suspect. Even children are going m...

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Name: Sam Phillips
15 October 2018;

Genre: Adventure

As someone who has moved houses up and down the country many times, this book was a real hit! I'm not a geography buff but I do like to know things about where I am or where I'm going, and this book is just great for that. Maps of the United Kingdom is filled with fascinating facts and figures ab...

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