Schools & Libraries Book Reviews
Filter:
-
The Diddle That Dummed
Name: Samantha Phillips
04 August 2020;Genre: Picture Books
The Diddle that Dummed is another great picture book by children's author Kes Gray and has the same style and repetitive pattern as his 'Oi Frog' series. It's this pattern that helps young children re-tell the story, which in turn supports their understanding of the story form...
-
Cinderella is Dead
Name: Tanja Jennings
01 August 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
From the distinctive front cover, celebrating Sophia Grimmins as proud, beautiful, defiant, fierce and brown skinned, to her explosive story inside, Kalynn Bayron reclaims the iconic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm with her new YA fantasy, Cinderella Is Dead. Groundbreaking...
-
Name: Hayley Summerfield
01 August 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Children of the Benin Kingdom is the debut novel by Dinah Orji, a British author of Nigerian heritage. This beautifully written story is immersed in accurate historical knowledge that takes the reader on a fast-paced adventure based around an ancient West African civilisation....
-
The Smile Shop
Name: Jessica Bunney
01 August 2020;Genre: Friends and family
What a brilliantly memorable book! This story is incredibly captivating, thoroughly enjoyable to read aloud and has a fantastic moral - a sure new favourite of mine. The Smile Shop will put a smile on your face as you see the power of a simple smile and the value of acts of ki...
-
Cinderella is Dead
Name: Linda Brown
31 July 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
After reading Cinderella Is Dead, you will never look at the original Grimms fairytale in the same way ever again... It's been 200 years since Cinderella found her Prince Charming and they lived happily ever after, or did they? Sophia, our lead character, knows th...
-
Ways to Make Sunshine
Name: Jo Clarke
23 July 2020;Genre: Friends and family
We all know the saying, 'When life gives you lemons, make lemonade', well, Ryan Hart is a girl who finds ways to make sunshine when life brings rainclouds.With subtle echoes of Bill's New Frock, Ways to Make Sunshine will inspire and delight. Ryan's name means 'lea...
-
The Lost Soul Atlas
Name: Lucy Georgeson
23 July 2020;Genre: Social Issues
A boy awakens in the Afterlife, with a pocketful of vague memories, a key, a raven, and a mysterious atlas to guide him as he sets out to piece together what happened, and try to find his way home...Twig is alone as a newly-made street kid after his dad goes missing. But when he me...
-
44 Tiny Secrets
Name: Lauren Maidman
23 July 2020;Genre: Family & Home
Betsy Bow-Linnet is the daughter of famous concert pianists Bella and Bertrum Bow-Linnet. Her grandfather, too, is a concert pianist, however Betsy is not. No matter how hard she tries she just can't get the hang of it. After hearing her mother call her 'a disappointment', Betsy is determined...
-
The Unadoptables: Five fantastic children on the adventure of a lifetime
Name: Janet Fisher
23 July 2020;Genre: Adventure
The Unadoptables is a truly magical story of orphans, adventure, and of longing for something that seems so out of reach; belonging to a family. The Little Tulip Orphanage in 1880 Amsterdam is, as you would expect in a story about orphans, cold, miserable and run by a truly ho...
-
The Fowl Twins (Paperback)
Name: Carol Carter
23 July 2020;Genre: Magical Realism
The Fowl Twins is the 'first book of the second cycle of Fowl Adventures', meaning we are back in the world of Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer's long-running MG series about a child criminal genius and his adventures with the fairy realm, but this new series focuses on the exploits...
