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  • The Island Vet (2) - Rescue at Seal Bay

    The Island Vet (2) - Rescue at Seal Bay

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    12 August 2024;

    Genre: Animals

    This beautifully written story focuses on the turning the negative impact of tourism into a positive one. We all like to visit wonderful places and see amazing animals but we also all need to take responsibility for looking after their habitats and our environment. Through this story, Gill Lew...

  • Why Politics Matters (Little Experts)

    Why Politics Matters (Little Experts)

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    12 August 2024;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    According to author Alastair Campbell, politics is part of everything we do and in Why Politics Matters, he sets out to explain how. Perfect for sharing, the book provides a good introduction to the political system of the UK. Starting with the role played by the House...

  • A Tempest of Tea

    A Tempest of Tea

    Name: Linda Brown
    12 August 2024;

    Genre: Supernatural

    Arthie Casimir runs a prestigious tearoom (Spindrift) during the day, however, at night it turns into a bloodhouse where vampires are free to feed from those who consent.  When the Ram, the masked monarch who rules Ettenia , threatens to take Spindrift from her and destroy what she has created...

  • Dive, Dive into the Night Sea

    Dive, Dive into the Night Sea

    Name: Maria Faithorn
    12 August 2024;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    Dive, Dive, into the Night Sea will take the reader on an underwater adventure. Journey to the inky depths, down to the coral where an array of sea creatures live. Will you be brave enough to turn off the light and explore the darkness? When the time comes to leave, swim back...

  • Forest of Forbidden Magic: A spooky supernatural adventure of spine-tingling mystery

    Forest of Forbidden Magic: A spooky supernatural adventure of spine-tingling mystery

    Name: Margaret Pemberton
    12 August 2024;

    Genre: Supernatural

    When Tig and his sister Elsa receive a strange letter and two silver charms from their odd grandfather, they wonder if it is some kind of joke. Then their father hears that his father has died and they all journey to his home to sort out his affairs. However, there is something very strange ab...

  • Telling the Time with Anna: First Skills

    Telling the Time with Anna: First Skills

    Name: Maria
    12 August 2024;

    Genre: Early Skills

    Telling the Time with Anna is full of clocks and clock hands and is a great way to learn to tell the time with Anna and her Grandpa. Grandpa kindly helps and supports Anna to read the times of the clocks and to understand how the three clock hands work.  The book dips into rea...

  • One Button and the Sea

    One-Button and the Sea

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    09 August 2024;

    Genre: Family & Home

    One-Button and the Sea is a story of refugees, uprooted from their homes and travelling across the sea to a new home. Grandpa tells One-Button the tale of how they moved to their new home, reminding him of the journey and how they returned home. Told with few wo...

  • Little Guides to Nature: Hello Trees

    Little Guides to Nature: Hello Trees

    Name: Jane Rew
    09 August 2024;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    Glance at the common features of all four books in this series and the librarian/teacher/book-buying parent will soon be persuaded to invest: helpful hardback format suited to taking outdoors; as is their fit into a rucksack pocket; quality paper for durability; Stylish and colourful illustrat...

  • What the Crow Saw Below

    What the Crow Saw Below

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    08 August 2024;

    Genre: Personal Growth

    What the Crow Saw Below is a beautiful story to remind us to look all around us and focus on the joy.  Life is often not what it seems and this book demonstrates this beautifully. It is inspirational as the youngest member of the flock is the one to encourage the others to cha...

  • Let ME Do It!

    Let ME Do It!

    Name: Lizi Backhouse
    08 August 2024;

    Genre: Family & Home

    Teddy is not a baby anymore but his family still fuss over him so one day he decides to do everything himself - what could go wrong?  This is a good concept to explore, and one that families with toddlers in will all relate to... I do have some reservations that some of the content (like cutti...