Families Book Reviews

Name: Lizi Coombs
11 October 2015;

Genre: Animals

Sir Tristan of Raven Castle has a terrible mouse problem so buys a Terrible Tab. The cat hunts down the mice until only three remain. The future looks dim, but luckily these mice are saved by the arrival of Gawain Greytail, a fierce mouse knight who teaches them the ways and leads them to defe...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
11 October 2015;

Genre: Adventure

I'm a big fan of Michael Rosen - I like his funny real-ness (It is a word - honest!) and this book is no exception. Mad in the Back is a car journey that we've all had - infact, we've all been the two children who go 'mad in the back'....and we've all had the Mum who threatens (and then does!) st...

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Name: June Hughes
11 October 2015;

Genre: Adventure

Pugs of the Frozen North is the third 'Reeve and McIntyre Production' and continues the pairing of illustration and text, where you really cannot imagine one without the other. Every page has something to look at, all in various shades of green and grey, making it very readabl...

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Name: Dawn Woods
05 October 2015;

Genre: Adventure

An accessible biography of Charles Darwin with chapter headings to entice and interest children. From stinky schoolboy to seasick sailor, Darwin's life is told and the importance of his discoveries in the context of the time explained. This latter is important as children will not necessarily be...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
05 October 2015;

Genre: Adventure

This book links the family history of the Hancock family from Liverpool to historical events over the past 100 or so years. This is a very attractive book, cleverly combining family pictures and artefacts with photos of world events. The use of 'tape' to label the photos is effective, combined wi...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
05 October 2015;

Genre: Adventure

This book looks at extreme weather conditions. Big Weather is full of interesting facts, supported by some amazing pictures. The book explains extreme weather conditions in a number of ways - Q and A, diagrams, sections of text, fact files - which makes the subject easy to understand. The book w...

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Name: Helen Langley
27 September 2015;

Genre: Adventure

Days after finishing her GCSEs Evie answers the door to find a lawyer asking to speak to her. He tells her she is going to come into an inheritance of 10 million pounds from a woman called Irina Galloway. Eve wants to know who Irina is and why she has been left this money. Her parents obviously k...

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Name: Rachel
27 September 2015;

Genre: Adventure

We are told on the inside cover that this series is 'Books for people who love to draw made by people who love to draw'. And this book is exactly that, but so much more. There are drawing activities on every page by well known names such as Alex T Smith, Emily Gravett, Jim Field and Sarah McInty...

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Name: Clare Humphreys
23 September 2015;

Genre: Real life

I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I first picked up the book, but once I started reading, I just couldn't put it down! It starts at Olivia's seventeenth birthday party, her best friend, Nicola subsequently gives birth to a baby girl, Eliza on the bathroom floor, much to the surprise of her...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
20 September 2015;

Genre: Adventure

This is an animal based, humourous crime book.... how do you categorise that?! Adam Frost has written a series of Fox Investigates , and I've read two of them - this one and A whiff of mystery. I found them both fast-paced, witty and funny whilst also being easy for children to access. The stor...

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