Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Ruth Cornish
11 April 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Jenny Pearson has written another smasher for Barrington Stoke with her latest adventure Bigfoot and the Wild Boys. The main protagonists, Joe, and best friend Tiago, are inspired by celebrity 'Wildman Mike' to become adventurers themselves. T...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
11 April 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Tortoise has been invited to a party, but he doesn't really like them and so is not keen to go. He loves his friends, but the thought of them all together all at once is just too much. However, he decides to go for a little while, but when he arrives, there is no one there… Part...

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Name: Laura Richards
11 April 2025;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Another laugh-out-loud comic book with Toby and his troublesome pixies! This is absolutely brilliant, and is guaranteed to delight any reader from the very young to the much older! As I read this book, I was giggling away, and soon found myself with a nine-year-old reading ove...

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Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
10 April 2025;

Genre: Magical Realism

Lola and Larch Mend a Magic Mess is the fourth title in the series about a little girl and her fairy best friend. Continuing from Make a Winter Wish, this title moves into the Easter holidays when the duo have a bigger th...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
10 April 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Heidi tells the story of a young girl who is taken to the Swiss Alps to live with her bad tempered and reclusive Grandfather. She meets Peter, a goat-herder, and they soon become friends. Grandfather gradually softens towards his grandchild and when Heidi leaves to become a co...

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Name: Sam
10 April 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Café Chaos by Catherine Wilkins is a heart-warming story, served up with a large dollop of humour and decorated throughout with Kate Abey’s fab illustrations. This appealing presentation, with a variety of font styles and page decorations - rather like a school notebook or dia...

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Name: Julie broadbent
10 April 2025;

Genre: Real life

The third and equally brilliant new book from Nathanael Lessore - What Happens Online - follows our main character Fred through his journey in Year 9 at home and at school. 14-year-old Fred is having a really hard time at school. He has been relentlessly bullied since Y...

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Name: Jessica Bunney
10 April 2025;

Genre: Non Fiction

The British Museum brings us a memorable take on a non-fiction book titled My Little Museum: Ancient Egypt. This is of course perfect for children who are learning about the Egyptian times in lower Key Stage 2 (ages 7+). But it will also spark interest in chil...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
09 April 2025;

Genre: Friends and family

Our Tree is the beautiful new picture book from Jessica Meserve. The Tree acts as the centre of the whole community, providing a place of solace, comfort and protection. The squirrel, on the other hand, has a different idea and thinks that the tree is just for him. This...

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Name: Linda Brown
08 April 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

Eden Victoria's debut novel Close Protection promises suspense, romance, and a hint of danger, but unfortunately, it doesn't fully deliver on those fronts. The story follows Daphne Green, an heiress to the Greenway Discoveries fortune, whose life of privilege is interrupted af...

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