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The Doughnut Club
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 June 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Quinn has two mums and a younger brother, Olly. Both children share a donor - not a dad - but have different mums. Although surrounded by a loving, supportive family, Quinn always feels like the odd one out, not fitting in with the outdoorsy, adventurous rest. When their mums announce that Qui...
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Marching Band
Name: Louise Gahan
02 June 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Marching Band is a whirlwind adventure through fun-filled scenes like the jungle, beach and even outer space. Get ready to stomp, clap, ROAR and march along in this joyful, action-packed adventure - brought to life by Kate Hindley's joyful illustrations and Ka...
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Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs!: Dinosaurs are Cool and So is This Book. Fact.
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 June 2025;Genre: Non Fiction
My son, like many young children, was completely fascinated by dinosaurs and we had an extensive collection of books on the subject! However, I am sure that had this book been around then, it would quickly have become one of his favourites. A clear contents page allows the reader to qui...
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Choose Your Own Evolution: Go Extinct or Survive? You Decide!
Name: Jennifer CADDICK
01 June 2025;Genre: Non Fiction
Ancestors Assemble! is the very clever hook to this brilliantly unique and absorbingly interactive exploration of the history of evolution, which takes us back to the very starting point of life on earth. Fascinating facts across millions of years of evolution are made...
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Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing
Name: Amanda Shipton
01 June 2025;Genre: Adventure
Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing is the amazing first book in the new series by Martin Stewart. This story has all the ingredients of an award-winning story which is well thought through and put together in a way which will engage the reader from beginning...
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These Are My Rocks: A story about collecting
Name: Lizi Backhouse
30 May 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
These Are My Rocks is a story about collecting. It's an interactive book which directly addresses the reader and asks them to turn the light on, catch a spider, blow the cobwebs etc... which kept my little readers engaged! The illustrations are fun and captivating and the book...
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Felix and the Future Agency
Name: Beverley Somerset
29 May 2025;Genre: Adventure
Felix Green doesn't fit in at school. He can predict the future, and this skill is constantly getting him into trouble. Everything changes when he is whisked off to join a top secret, magical government agency, where he finds he's not alone in having special powers. Here, for the first time, F...
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The Bear-Shaped Hole
Name: Wendy Kelly
28 May 2025;Genre: Bereavement
Tissues at the ready because The Bear-Shaped Hole will make you go all misty-eyed at the end. Gerda is a small bear who has a great friendship with Orlo, a bigger bear. They play games, sing songs, have adventures and do all the things together that best friends do but one day...
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Once I Was A Tree
Name: Jessica Bunney
28 May 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
This book is the PERFECT mix of laugh-out-loud humour and a very poignant story about the importance of trees, and stories. The paper within the book - which was once a tree - tells the story as a first person narrative; a really creative read! We hear all about the jou...
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Guardians of the Source (Gargoyles, Book 1)
Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 May 2025;Genre: Magical Realism
Callen moves with his parents to his father's childhood home, an old ramshackle house that is literally falling down. On his first night there, one of the gargoyles adorning the house wakes up and it quickly becomes clear a malevolent force is also waking. The gargoyles might look scary, but t...
