Schools & Libraries Book Reviews
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Keisha Jones is a Force of Nature!
Name: Dylan Age 8
15 August 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
Amazing book, it's so inspiring you should read it. It is a message to stop climate change.
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University of Cambridge: Think Big: The Speed of Light
Name: Louisa Farrow
15 August 2025;Genre: Non Fiction
This lusciously illustrated book about Einstein and his theory of relativity gives an absorbing introduction to some of the most mind-bending - and influential - ideas in physics. Each spread begins with a big, challenging question like, 'How can speed change the sounds we hea...
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Bad United: Fast as Lightning
Name: Amanda Shipton
15 August 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Fast as Lightening is the latest instalment in the Bad United Series. Louise Forshaw continues the series with this brilliantly written graphic novel. The page designs with different layouts and illustration sizes add interest and the limited language and well...
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Brave Bears Don't Get Scared
Name: Lizi Backhouse
14 August 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
What a gorgeous book! This beautifully illustrated book features lots of scary creatures - bears, porcupines, dragons and scorpions included - who surely aren't scared of anything...are they? Brave Bears Don't Get Scared provides a gentle introduction for talking to chi...
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Dungeon Runners: Ocean Chase
Name: Jane Rew
14 August 2025;Genre: Fantasy
For those unfamiliar with Dungeon Runners, there are some initial, helpful introductions at the start of the third book in the series, Dungeon Runners Level 3: Ocean Chase; to the commentators, to our regular heroes Kit, Thorn and Sandy,...
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My Teacher is a Diamond Thief!
Name: Margaret
11 August 2025;Genre: School Stories
My Teacher is a Diamond Thief!, the 15th adventure for Izzy and her friends, sees them coping with a new teacher at their primary school. But very soon they see signs of some very strange behaviour; after all who gets their own name wrong, or gives out work sheets that are not...
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One Cat, Two Cats: A lift-the-flap, pop-up book with 20 cats to count!
Name: Sue Wilsher
08 August 2025;Genre: Early Skills
Bright and beautiful, One Cat, Two Cats is quite simply brilliant! Bursting with gentle humour, children will love the simple rhyming text and the feline antics on every page. The book is wonderfully interactive with lift-the-flaps and pop-ups galore en...
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The Great Nut Hunt
Name: Maria
08 August 2025;Genre: Friends and family
The Great Nut Hunt is the wonderful new rhyming book by the talented author Karl Newson and illustrator Nia Havilliard and it does not disappoint. It's Autumn and Squirrel is busy collecting nuts until his home is filled up so he has an idea to hide them away. The beautiful il...
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Minna's Masks
Name: Jen Bevan
08 August 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Minna uses masks to help her navigate life. But when Minna starts at a new school, and forgets to bring her masks, she has a tricky day. Everything is just too much and in the end she becomes dysregulated. Minna doesn't know what to do until a boy from the class shows her his mask and Minna re...
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The Changeling Child
Name: Sue Wilsher
08 August 2025;Genre: Fantasy
With a new project threatening both the natural world and the Faerie realm, Saga and Alfred are brought together once again. As a demi-fae, Alfred must journey deep into the magical kingdom, leaving Saga behind to unravel the 12-year-old mystery of a missing child who is, perhaps, the key to e...
