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Press Start! Super Rabbit Boy Blasts Off !
Name: Amanda Shipton
16 February 2024;Genre: Adventure
Press Start! Super Rabbit Boy Blasts Off! is the fifth book in Thomas Flintham's series cleverly based on children's love of computer games, which is likely to have the young chapter book reader hooked from the start. The scenario of being on a long car journey, eight hours in...
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Vile Virginia and the Curse that Got Worse
Name: Amanda Shipton
16 February 2024;Genre: Picture Books
Vile Virginia and the Curse that Got Worse is an absolute block buster of a picture book. The rhythmical rhyming text guides you through this wonderful tale of what happens when Vile Virginia meets her match in Angelic Julian. Children and adults alike will love the poetic jus...
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The Best Eid Ever
Name: Maria Faithorn
15 February 2024;Genre: Picture Books
The Best Eid Ever is a fantastic resource, and one of very few available in narrative form for children. It is a great way to teach and raise children's awareness and knowledge of the religious festival of Eid. Through detailed pictures with plenty of colour, and the vocabular...
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Adventuremice: Mice on the Ice
Name: Amanda Shipton
15 February 2024;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Adventuremice: Mice on the Ice is the third instalment of the Adventuremice series, from Philip Reeve & Sarah McIntyre, and sees the mice encountering snow and ice. Pedro is new to Fledermaus and is far more used to drinking...
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Pablo and Splash!
Name: Sue Wilsher
14 February 2024;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Although she's a penguin, Splash is finding the Antarctic a bit chilly. Her friend, Pablo, believes they live in a blissful utopia and can't understand what she is unhappy about. However, being a really good friend, he agrees to help plan a luxury holiday in the sun. But everywhere is krilly f...
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Picture a Poem: Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Name: Sue Wilsher
13 February 2024;Genre: Poetry
Hope is the Thing with Feathers is a poem written by American poet, Emily Dickinson, and published in 1891. In it, she compares hope to a bird, found singing even in the darkest times, and never asking for a thing in return; a reminder of what a powerful thing hope is. ...
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Outside
Name: Abbie Age 6
12 February 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
This is a lovely book with really beautiful illustrations! Its all about people not enjoying or appreciating being outside and the world around them until suddenly everyone has to stay inside and no one is allowed to go out. It's all about people rediscovering all the joys and beauty of the na...
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Peng and Spanners
Name: Amanda Shipton
09 February 2024;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Pizza mysteries, pesky robots and jail breaks aplenty; discover the first instalment of this humorous comic book series starring a sarcastic penguin and a clever cat with a toolbelt. When the school pizza parlour disappears and a giant robot suddenly appears, Peng and Spanners know that...
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I Love You More
Name: Jessica Bunney
09 February 2024;Genre: Family & Home
If you're searching for the perfect loving bedtime story to share between mother and daughter, then look no further. I Love You More takes us on a gorgeously metaphorical journey as a mother tries to put into words the love she feels for her child. Perhaps the love felt betwee...
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Eyes That Weave the World's Wonders
Name: Maria
09 February 2024;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
This special book starts with a family, a loving family full of love, kindness and sanctuary for a little girl who notices "No one in my family has eyes like mine". The words in the text paint a picture of love as the child recalls beautiful times with her mum and dad who have different eyes f...
