Families Book Reviews

Name: Sue Wilsher
23 May 2024;

Genre: Poetry

In this collection, Brian Moses offers not only 52 poems (one for any week of the year), but oodles of inspiration and possibility.  On Poetry Street shows just how accessible and enjoyable creating poems can be and is sure to leave readers itching to get started. This...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
22 May 2024;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

All the Hidden Monsters is a perfect, twisty, supernatural thriller that you simply won't be able to put down. Oren works for the Arcanum, a warlock institution that upholds law and order in the supernatural world. Werewolf Sage is an aspiring detective, perpetually rejected b...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
22 May 2024;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Dora finds a party invitation in her school book bag. It's for her friend, Rashid's, birthday party. Dora has been to a party before and hated it; too loud and too busy. Mum keeps telling her it will be fun but Dora thinks up more and more outlandish excuses as to why she isn't able to attend....

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Name: Sharon Porter
22 May 2024;

Genre: Animals

Mad about Monkeys by Owen Davey is a brilliant non fiction text, covering our primate cousins, monkeys. It can be used as a source of information to show children how to set out non chronological reports in English or as a source book for science research. The stylised...

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Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
21 May 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Luna Loves Gardening is the sixth title in the picture book series about the little girl discovering her enjoyment of things like art, dancing, and books. Written by the current Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho, this is a sweet, cheerful story about Luna's visit to the commun...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
21 May 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Mum and Dad are proud of their neat garden and work hard to keep it tidy and weed free. However, when Poppy and Ali find out about rewilding at school, they dream of a very different garden, full of real wild creatures and lots of plants. With their parents' help, they set about transforming t...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
20 May 2024;

Genre: Funny Stories

There's a Beach in my Pants is the hilarious rhyming tale of a little girl's bad day turned good at the beach. After a disastrous trip to the beach with her Mum, the little girl gets a lot more than she bargained for when she gets home! A fish and chip shop in the downstairs c...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
20 May 2024;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Based on a short film of the same name, Adnan: The Boy who Helped his Mummy Remember tells the story of a little boy who creates a 'save mummy plan' in an attempt to rescue her from depression. Although Adnan and his mother are now safe in a new home, the terrors and grief the...

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Name: Maria
20 May 2024;

Genre: Picture Books

I Love Books is an unusual book with an important message. On the cover, the title reads, 'I Hate(crossed out) Love Books, which begins to explain what the story is about.  The beginning of the book takes us to a classroom on the final day as the children are breaking up for the summer holiday...

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Name: Elen Green
20 May 2024;

Genre: Early Skills

Five Little Ducks: A Slide and Count Book is a lovely first counting book for children aged two years plus, and will test their fine motor skills, too, when sliding the counters around the pages. The board book follows the nursery rhyme of 'five little ducks' but it can...

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