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This is NOT a bedtime story
Name: Marie Berry
09 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
Will Marbett has captured the mind of the modern six or seven year old very cleverly in this book. I thought this was a really funny book. How many times have I picked up a very dull story and had to trawl through the twee tale which can be very sickly and not engaging at all for children. I l...
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Beasties in my backyard.
Name: Marie Berry
09 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
Beasties in my Backyard is an amazing insect information book. At first glance, I thought this book was more suitable for older children, but when I began reading it with my six year old I found he was engaged and also keen to read lots of it by himself. It introduced lots of technical vocabula...
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Migloo's Day
Name: Marie Berry
09 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
If you love Where's Wally, then Migloo's Day (now available in paperback) is one for you. In this search and find story book, Migloos day unfolds with lots of great tales of everyday adventures. The search and find pages are great fun and offer lots of discussion opportunities. These books wo...
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Five Children on the Western Front
Name: Harrie Age 15
06 May 2016;Before I start I would just like to warn you that my opinions on this book may be caused by nostalgia, so I encourage you to read it for yourself to form your own opinions. Now that that is out of the way, I have to tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which is a follow up book to E.Nesb...
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There Will Be Lies
Name: Daisy
06 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
I really wanted to like this book. Unfortunately, I just could not engage with Nick Lake's writing style, so I found reading it to be a chore - an exciting one - but still. I found the story's twists completely out of the blue, which should be a good thing, but I just found them entirely out of p...
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My Little Book of Weather
Name: Louise Gahan
26 April 2016;Genre: Adventure
I'm a real fan of the 'My Little Book Of...' series from QED. We already use My Little Book of Space and this new book, My Little Book of Weather, has all the ingredients that I liked in the first book: a good balance of text, images and boxed-out information; and it's a great example of an in...
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Steven Seagull Action Hero
Name: Alice Hunt
23 April 2016;Genre: Adventure
I really enjoyed Steven Seagull Action Hero although it took me a couple of reads of the picture book to get there and to realise what a great introduction to the mystery / detective genre this provides. The details and clues on each page are easily missed the first time around so it rewards re-r...
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The Three Ninja Pigs
Name: Elen James
22 April 2016;Genre: Adventure
This is a wonderful and quite sophisticated picture book for children aged 4+, which draws on traditional fairytales while introducing children to comic conventions. In the story, three 'ninja pigs' confront a rebellious 'big bad wol' who is causing havoc at Granny's cottage, the Three Bears Buil...
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Could a Monkey Waterski?
Name: Clare Raley
04 April 2016;Genre: Adventure
This series of books are both fun and informative. Each page poses different question about a Mokey... 'What if a Monkey went to a noodle bar?' The question is then answered with facts in a fun, child friendly, way. The illustrations are bright and entertaining showing a monkey using chopstick ea...
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Nicholas and the Wild Ones
Name: Clare Raley
04 April 2016;Genre: Adventure
Lovely illustrations in this book about how a child can overcome anxieties. Nicholas has started school and there are group of 'wild ones' who made his first day an unpleasant one. Dad and Gramps gave him some 'tips' on how to deal with them but Gran knew Nicholas was an 'ideas man' and would com...
