Latest Reviews

Name: Amanda Shipton
29 August 2023;

Genre: Short reads

Can you tell a tale in ten words? In this unique and magnificent compendium designed to spark the imagination, Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho brings us stories of underwater worlds, demon hamsters, bears in outer space, and portals to places unknown!  The tales in this book are tiny, they a...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
24 August 2023;

Genre: Non Fiction

Luna Scope, aged seven-and-a-bit Earth years, is determined to be an astronaut. Full of enthusiasm, she is about to launch herself into her ambition and, fortunately, her granny is on hand to guide her with some excellent advice. Luna learns about spacesuits and telescopes, stars and space roc...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
21 August 2023;

Genre: Adventure

In Huxley and Flapjack Race to the Rescue, Huxley is a little koala filled with energy and zest for life. Flapjack, his penguin friend, is far more anxious and cautious, but together they make the perfect team. They live in a treehouse just outside the town and, when a new sto...

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Name: Maria faithorn
19 August 2023;

Genre: Personal Growth

Hop, alone in a dark wood with 100 hungry-eyed wolves watching, sticks out her tongue and runs. Fast. But wolves are faster. Waking in her burrow, Hop is comforted by Mummy who suggests burrowing deep underground the next time she has a bad dream. The next time, Hop is watched by 1000 hungry-e...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
14 August 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

In Peanut, Butter & Crackers: River Rescue, the pets are off to the great outdoors in their human's camper van. Everything is going fine until Butter, the indoor cat, realises that their human has not brought a litter tray! There must be one in the forest, right, how else...

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Name: Maria
10 August 2023;

Genre: Adventure

If you love Shifty and Sam, pack your suitcase and get on board the Pawrient Express for Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Train Trouble, a new adventure with these humorous characters. What a delight to receive a copy of this brilliant new book, celebrating the 10th Anniversar...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
01 August 2023;

Genre: Animals

Really Wild Families is a really lovely concept for a series! Little Whale: A Day in the Life of a Whale Calf starts with a day in the life of a little whale who is migrating with her family to the warm waters, many miles away. She tells us all about what whal...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 August 2023;

Genre: Bereavement

A chance meeting results in love at first sight for Jennie and Abram. A worrier, Jennie falls in love with Abram's fearlessness, the fact that he was never afraid to follow his heart. But when the worst happens and Jennie finds herself alone, will she be able to find her own courage? <s...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
01 August 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

In Agent 9: Flood-a-geddon!, Agent 9, an impulsive feline agent, and her robot fish sidekick, FIN, must save the world from King Crab, the super villain, in this new high octane graphic novel. This tiger-striped tabby cat, Agent 9, is on probation with the Super Secret Spy Ser...

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Name: Sharon Porter
01 August 2023;

Genre: Personal Growth

Becoming Brave arrived from Little Tiger publishers and after seeing the tag-line, I thought I had better leave this book until I was less tired (and emotional) at the end of term. I am glad I did! This book resonated deeply with me, as an early-life widow, and this beautifull...

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