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Winter Sleep
Name: Lucy Newton
07 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
A lovely picture book with a brilliant link to real life learning! This story is all about a child who enjoys going to stay with her Granny Silvie who lives in the countryside. When the child visits, s/he explores the local environment with the grandma, listening to birds sing, watching the anim...
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How Tall was a T.Rex?
Name: Lizi Backhouse
03 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
A good book for dinosaur lovers, each pages tells you a fact about a T.Rex, based on skeletons that have been found. Whilst some of the references are American (eyes as big as baseballs for example), the comparisons make it easier for children to understand the scale of the dinosaur. This is...
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How Far Can A Kangaroo Jump?
Name: Lizi Backhouse
03 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
This is a great book for introducing comparing measurements. It tells you how far a kangaroo can jump and then compared this to other animals movements - lemurs swings, penguins porpoises - before telling you how many jumps it would take a kangaroo to circle the world. This book has brightly co...
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Quill Soup
Name: Louise Gahan
07 September 2019;Genre: Adventure
Quill soup is a myriad of colour and imagination. It is a story of Noko the porcupine's search for food. Tired and hungry after his long journey, he finds himself in a village where no animal is willing to share their food. A plan is struck; a plan that will encourage others to join in and share...
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Cloud Forest
Name: Erin Hamilton
07 September 2019;Genre: Adventure
This is a beautifully illustrated book that softly and sensitively deals with love and loss, and the memories that keep loved ones alive in our hearts. Umpa has a garden full of treasure and the child loves spending time there! Umpa is clearly old and wise for he shares important advice with th...
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Pem's Little Brother
Name: Nikki Stiles
06 September 2019;Genre: Young fiction
So exciting to see new additions to the Reading Gems first readers series! The new additions include two phoneme-specific books including Pem's Little Brother and Mr Wimple's Potion. These are something new that we did not see in the first collection of books released. These are decodable books w...
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Let's Read: Forest Fun
Name: James Hewish
04 September 2019;Genre: Adventure
Every school would benefit from having a range of these books! We have just read QED's three new non-fiction children's books. It is not often you come across an accessible non-fiction book that a 4-5-year-old can read independently without losing interest. Thank you, QED! QED, the publisher, w...
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Little People Big Dreams Bruce Lee
Name: Nikki Stiles
27 August 2019;Genre: Adventure
Bruce Lee is one of the newest biographies in the 'Little People, Big Dreams' series. I have read a number of titles in this series and they are a fantastic insight for children into the lives of famous icons; scientists, artists, cultural representatives, pioneering inventors and more. Each beau...
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Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls
Name: Nikki Stiles
27 August 2019;Genre: Adventure
We love this book! This has been an instant hit in this household, bedtimes seem to have got later each evening as my girls have pleaded with me to keep on reading. They are definitely motivated and inspired to read more. As the title suggests, each of the chapters in this book is a different f...
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The Fate of Fausto
Name: Kyle Matravers
22 August 2019;Genre: Adventure
Firstly, Oliver Jeffers has done a truly superb job in presenting this modern day fable in paint. The illustrations are in the typical Oliver Jeffers fashion but this is something that draws me in instantly as I feel part of the charm of his other work (Lost and Found, Incredible Book Eating Boy...
