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Name: Sharon Porter
07 June 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Mushrooms Know: Wisdom From Our Friends the Fungi is an incredibly deceptive book - a bit like its starring fungi! Despite looking like a simple picture book, the depth of vocabulary and knowledge included in the pages introduces this kingdom to all primary children, right up...

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Name: Sharon Porter
07 June 2024;

Genre: Animals

One Day on our Prehistoric Planet… with a Diplodocus is a lovely book to introduce our youngest readers to dinosaurs. I liked how the story dropped in facts for young readers to hear. The end covers are littered with dinosaur names and the youngest children loved trying to say...

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Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
05 June 2024;

Genre: Funny Stories

Who Ate Steve? is a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek metafictive picturebook. An unknown narrator, who speaks directly to both reader and character, is a teacher trying to teach about size - what (or who) is big and small. But causing the teacher-narrator's increasing frustration i...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
05 June 2024;

Genre: Friends and family

Gloria Goes for Gold is the story of a Hippo named Gloria who, with her family, are Artistic Swimming Champions. Gloria is bored of winning with her family and when the Savannah Games role into town, she fancies a change of sport and potentially the idea of winning a medal of...

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Name: Louise Gahan
04 June 2024;

Genre: Funny Stories

A bear, a dragon and a rickety bridge; what could possibly go wrong? When the two characters meet on a bridge, they don't exactly see eye to eye. Very quickly their conversation gets somewhat heated and all the while, the rickety bridge gets even more rickety. This is a super, quick-wit...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
01 June 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Marv and his super-suit are back in this, his 6th , adventure, Marv and the Humongous Hamster. Who doesn't need a super-suit and one that is powered by kindness and imagination, no less? This story starts from a very relatable problem for any young reader; the need to p...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
31 May 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

When a little boy is left at his grandparent’s for the summer holidays, he expects to be completely bored as nothing ever happens there and there is nothing to do. However, when searching the attic, he finds a suitcase, full of mysterious things and photos of people having incredible adventure...

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Name: Maria Faithorn
30 May 2024;

Genre: Funny Stories

Who Ate Steve? Is a well illustrated book which supports the learning of size, but not in the usual way that you'd expect! This well written and humorous text takes the reader through the amusing adventure of Steve and Marcel. Marcel is not just big; he also likes to ea...

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Name: Maria
30 May 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Beti and the Little Round House is a gorgeous book with beautiful illustrations throughout the book. Beti lives in her round house surrounded by the gorgeous green woods under the mountains where she shares adventures with her friends including Naughty and Jack! There a...

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Name: Maria Faithorn
28 May 2024;

Genre: Animals

Ralfy and Rodney are off to their favourite place in the world: the library. But, when they arrive they are met with empty shelves and a sign saying, 'Library closing tomorrow'! Miss Page, the librarian, sadly tells them that with no-one using the library, it has to close; the only chance of s...

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