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A Book of Feelings
Name: Fiona Collins
01 December 2015;A Book of Feelings features Sam and Kate with their dog Fuzzy Bean. The book explores the different feelings the children experience in their young lives. The first feeling explored is what makes the children feeling happy and many children will relate to the reason: a cuddle, a story, a game in...
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I (Don't) Like Snakes
Name: Fiona Collins
01 December 2015;Genre: Adventure
As the reader opens I (Don't) Like Snakes he/she is confronted with end papers filled snakes of different designs and colours, wriggling and curling across the page. For the young reader there is no need to feel concerned, as these are illustrated snakes and not disturbing at all. This is an inte...
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Toby and the Ice Giants
Name: Sue Wilsher
28 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
Toby, the little bison, explores the Ice-Age tundra, meeting some of the other creatures who inhabited the planet. This is an excellent way of presenting facts to young children. On one level, we have Toby, a young bison who thinks he is big enough to explore on his own and we follow his adventu...
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Imelda and the Goblin King
Name: Sue Wilsher
28 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
A little girl called Imelda lives behind an enchanted forest where she spends her days playing with the fairies. However, the arrival of the horrible goblin king, who bullies everyone and kidnaps the fairy queen, means Imelda and her fairy friends have to work together to defeat him and rescue th...
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The Machine Gunners
Name: Tom Age 15
18 November 2015;Genre: Books set in the past
I would recommend this book because it shows world war 2 from a child's prospective mixed with an tale of mistrust between adults and children.
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Following the Tractor
Name: Lizi Coombs
14 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
Stegall's beautifully-crafted collages illustrate this picture book wonderfully - every page is bright and interesting to look at. The images are detailed and really illustrate the text well, aiding a younger reader's understanding. This is a great book to stretch the passion for tractors that yo...
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A Stork In The Baobab Tree
Name: Lizi Coombs
14 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is quite a charming Christmas book that shares 12 different African village Christmas Traditions. Using the classic Christmas carol 'Twelve Days Of Christmas', the reader learns about houses, food, clothing and culture in a variety of different places - at the market, in the huts, with the...
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The Pebble In My Pocket
Name: Lizi Coombs
14 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is one of those books that school librarians have difficulty classifying; is it non-fiction or is it a story that has some true parts?! It teaches the reader about the journey of a pebble, beginning 480 million years ago with the eruption of a volcano... but the text itself is quite descr...
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Penguin Small
Name: Marie Berry
04 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
Penguin Small introduces us to another of Mick Inkpen's loveable characters. The story tells the tale of Penguin Small, who want to escape to the South Pole with his friends but is too afraid to swim out to sea. Left behind to face the big bully polar bears, Penguin Small find friendship with a...
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Charlie and Lola: One Thing
Name: Marie Berry
01 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
This book is like a mirror of my life with my six year old! For Charlie and Lola lovers this book is a must and for everyone else, buy this book for the most brilliant way to develop number awareness with you children. Lauren Child has approached children's continuous fascination with numbers in...
