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Name: Alison Kelly
15 January 2021;Genre: Poetry
Trevor Millum and Bernard Young's The Poetry Guide, A 'How to' Guide for Teachers and Librarians is not the fanciest book ever but its rather unpromising appearance belies rich content. Everything you need is here: getting going, editing, using figurative language, reading alo...
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Name: Renee Age 10
13 January 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
During his voyage with Mr Darwin, and storm occurs and washes Syms onto a unexplored island with a volcano, a lizard and what he thinks is a dragon. I liked that the book showed resilience, collaboration and trust and the fact that a animal and a human could work together, that the book was di...
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Name: Dawn Woods
11 January 2021;Genre: Myths & Legends
Lotta is not finding it easy training to be a Valkyrie. She knows the challenge of capturing a fallen hero among the Vikings will be difficult. Meanwhile, Whetstone, a human who feels invisible down in Krud, has had his head turned by the promise of fame and fortune if he steals a jewelled cup...
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
11 January 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Syms Covington was a cabin boy on the famous Beagle ship, carrying Charles Darwin on his voyage of discovery. In 1835 they reached the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin was to begin to formulate his ideas for Origin of the Species. Syms was a real person and this story looks at a point missing i...
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Name: Jemmimah Age 10
10 January 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
This story is based on Charles Darwin's cabin boy, Syms Covington. This is a survival story. I really like the intensity of this book, I was often so captivated that I would lose focus of the world around me. As a big fan of nature, I like how this book includes detail about the setting, the G...
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When We Got Lost In Dreamland
Name: Jo Clarke
08 January 2021;Genre: Science Fiction
Most children wish that their dreams could come true and that real life could be as exhilarating as the world that exists when we close our eyes. In When We Got Lost In Dreamland, when Malky comes across a device that enables him to take control of his dreams and to meet up on...
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
07 January 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Jimmy and his little brother Ronnie are evacuated from London to a Welsh mining town Llanbryn. It is a very different place from their home, with mountains and coal mines and a tightly knit community. Jimmy is wary of everything and determined not to like it as it would seem like a betrayal of...
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Name: Jenny Caddick
07 January 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
A fun, fresh and very relevant new illustrated fiction book for young readers that contains big issues. Hope Jones is a 10 year old girl - part of a young generation determined to use their voices to change the world. In this second of the Hope Jones books, Hope is turning vegetarian an...
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Name: Alison Kelly
05 January 2021;Genre: Poetry
Spells, dragons, witches, unicorns, an ogre (actually he's missing), dark eerie settings: all of these feature in Cookson's anthology of magical poems accompanied by Elidh Muldoon's ethereal illustrations. Benjamin Zephaniah opens the anthology in his quest for 'De Magic Poem' (p.9) fol...
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Name: Sue Wilsher
04 January 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Syms Covington was taken on to the Beagle as cabin boy and fiddler, but has spent the past two years acting as assistant to Mr Darwin, a young scientist, as he explores the Galapagos Islands. However, an accident during a storm leaves him shipwrecked and alone in an inhospitable place, struggl...
