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Name: Amna Age 8
10 May 2024;

Genre: Myths & Legends

It is a very fun story

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Name: Maria
09 May 2024;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Grey is an important book because it explores feelings through colour. It begins with "Today I am grey. I don't feel sunshine yellow or balloon orange bright or treetop green." In this clever book, feelings are explored through colour and the beautiful illustrations by Lauren...

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Name: Jen Bevan
03 May 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Benji's Emerald King (The Woodland Explorers) is fully immersed in nature. All the additional details about tree etc would really engage children's imagination. A book for those who are exploring the world around them. I will be using this book with my Year 1 children (...

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Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
01 May 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Marv and the Humungous Hamster is the seventh title in the series about a boy called Marvin whose alter ego, Marv, is a superhero. Despite initially being confused as I did not realise this was a further adventure in an established series, I enjoyed this fast-paced humorous ad...

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Name: Maria
30 April 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

Terrible Horses tackles the issue of sibling rivalry in an unusual but powerful way. We meet a boy with an older sister who "PUSH, PULL, HURT".  Then the little boy hides and enters his imaginary world through art as he draws horses and himself as a pony, lonely and isolated.<...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
29 April 2024;

Genre: Personal Growth

Quiet is the stunning picture book about Little Bird 'with a bright blue flash on one wing' and how their small voice makes the biggest change.  When in a world of noise and chaos, one person listens, a big change and an even bigger problem can be prevented! Little Bird...

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Name: Jen Bevan
26 April 2024;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Have you ever thought of looking at the world around you in a different way? This book teaches all who read it to look at each situation from a happy perspective. A goodbye may bring a hello. A bad mood can change. The child in Sunny Side Up is learning how if you look...

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Name: Louise Gahan
19 April 2024;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Catherine Cawthorne and Sara Ogilvie join forces to create a unique and instantly captivating book in Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales. Once upon a time, there was a big bad wolf, who'd had just about enough of all of this fairy tale nonsense. After all, who would really want...

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Name: Elen Green
19 April 2024;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Somewhat fed up of always being 'the bad guy', the Big Bad Wolf decides to take a closer, more investigative, look at the fairy tales we all know and love, to see if he could have done the things he's been blamed for (such as 'eating grandma whole').  Along the way, he also revisits a number o...

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Name: Maria
18 April 2024;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

The Girl and the Mermaid is the beautiful new book by winning duo Hollie Hughes and Sarah Massini. The front cover is shiny and sparkly, showing the main character Alina and her new companion from the sea. Alina lives with her Granny in a traditional lighthouse but we learn fr...

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