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Captain Cat and the Treasure Map
Name: June Hughes
08 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
Patch is a cat aboard a pirate ship, crewed by a motley collection including a monkey and a parrot as well as a few human pirates. Patch's role in life is to save the human crew from the scrapes they get themselves into and, in this first book of a new series, Patch and her friends must prevent t...
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Amazing
Name: Kyle Matravers
03 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
Amazing is the latest offering from Steve Antony, who is quickly becoming an author who seems to effortlessly create (both writing and illustrating) fantastic books. Amazing centres around a little boy who, from looking at the front cover, we know is already different from his peers. This stra...
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Moth
Name: Bryony Davies
03 January 2019;Genre: Non Fiction
Moth, An Evolution Story is a clever hybrid. Part picture book and part non-fiction, the author has cleverly woven scientific fact about adaptation and evolution with a message of hope. Visually, this text is stunning. Every page provides a new response and delight. The text i...
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How Winston Delivered Christmas
Name: Nikki Stiles
23 December 2018;Genre: Adventure
This glorious chapter book is the go-to book for advent treats and I'm sure will become an annual tradition to revisit and enjoy over the Christmas period. The story follows a bold young mouse who finds himself on a most important mission. Whilst trying to snuggle down and keep himself...
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Only the Ocean
Name: Tanja Jennings
07 December 2018;Genre: Adventure
Cornish born author and poet Carthew is a passionate eco-writer. She believes tha 'There&'s nowhere quite like the great outdoors for inspiration and the freedom it affords' (Interview with Eco Fiction, 2018) and runs Wild Writing workshops to motivate others. Her previous YA novels, Winter Damag...
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You're called WHAT?!
Name: Emily Marcuccilli
15 November 2018;Genre: Adventure
Hands up if you have ever wanted to change your name to something else. In this gloriously funny picture book by author Kes Gray and illustrator Nikki Dyson, we meet a collection of strange animals from around the globe who are sick and tired of being known by their odd and sometimes embarrassin...
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Red and the City
Name: Kyle Matravers
02 November 2018;Genre: Adventure
Think you know Red's story? Think you know the wolf This Red has a story of her own.... Red and the City is a clever new take on the famous tale of Little Red Riding Hood. The story begins as all the innovation of this folktale start, with a little girl being tasked with the job of delivering s...
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What Do You Do if Your House is a Zoo?
Name: Joanna Hewish
26 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Pet owners, animal lovers and particularly rescue pet owners, you will adore this creative and fun story for children. What do you do if your house is a Zoo? follows the story of young Oscar when he is finally told by his parents that he can have a pet. But the only question is, what pet should...
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How Does Your Home Work?
Name: Alison Brown
16 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
The clever title of this book caught my eye, it's part of a series that also covers how we get the food in our lunch boxes and where your clothes come from. Although it begins in quite a simple way, looking at the 'magic' of water from taps, cold drinks from the fridge and light at the touch of s...
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Caterpillar and Bean
Name: Alison Brown
16 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Caterpillar and Bean is a beautifully-presented book that takes a slightly different approach to metamorphosis from other picture books by showing a caterpillar's changing stages against the backdrop of a bean plant, so we see how interconnected they are. First we see the bean plant starting to g...
