Families Book Reviews

Name: Abbie
18 February 2024;

Genre: Funny Stories

I Really, Really Need a Poo is a really funny book, full of lots of laughs. Its all about a bush baby who really, really needs a poo, but he can't find anywhere to go. Me and my toddler really enjoyed this book, it's a fun read.  I love a book that rhymes and flows nicely whil...

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Name: Linda Brown
17 February 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

I have been waiting a while for the conclusion of the magical and thrilling Legends of the Sky series and wow, it's been worth the wait... In The Pirate's Dragon, we meet Serena and Raff who live on separate isl...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
16 February 2024;

Genre: Non Fiction

This is a lovely book! This Book Will Make You an Artist presents 25 artists from around the world and gives you a step by step guide on how to create art like them. Starting with the earliest artists - the prehistoric cave dwellers - and moving right up to modern day, we have...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
16 February 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Press Start! Super Rabbit Boy Blasts Off! is the fifth book in Thomas Flintham's series cleverly based on children's love of computer games, which is likely to have the young chapter book reader hooked from the start. The scenario of being on a long car journey, eight hours in...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
16 February 2024;

Genre: Picture Books

Vile Virginia and the Curse that Got Worse is an absolute block buster of a picture book. The rhythmical rhyming text guides you through this wonderful tale of what happens when Vile Virginia meets her match in Angelic Julian. Children and adults alike will love the poetic jus...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
16 February 2024;

Genre: Historical Fiction

For Ned, the outbreak of the Second World War and the expansion of undercover operations at Bletchley Park have offered an unexpected escape from a dismal future working in his father's funeral parlour. Suddenly, he and his mother are being sent off to Wales as part of the covert mission to ke...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
16 February 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

Orphan Domino lives with the Science Barons in the Scientarium Celestis, a floating laboratory.  Allergic to magic, she is forced to stay here, tormented by the other children; a complex problem for the Barons to solve. However, when a Science Baron returns and requests Domino as his assistant...

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Name: Safiyya Khan
16 February 2024;

Genre: Social Issues

Hanh used to be a girl who went to school and dreamed of a better future, a future where she would be a fashion designer. Now she is a child laborer working in an illegal clothing factory in Hanoi. Life in the sweatshop is brutal; the hours are long, the rewards are non-existent and the food i...

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Name: Jo Thomas
16 February 2024;

Genre: Funny Stories

The veggies are reading their favourite comic books at night in the supermarket when they find an advertisement for a kit to turn them more bad or good. What follows is a funny tale of role reversal for Supatato and evil pea which leads to some crazy supermarket antics! Supertat...

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Name: Erin Quigley
16 February 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

When We become Ours, an unarguably groundbreaking anthology, contains a wide range of poignant and evocative stories in a variety of genres written about adopted characters by adoptee authors for adoptee readers. The editors, Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung, tell us there is n...

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