Latest Reviews

Name: Aidan Severs
06 February 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Children will love the silliness of this book, and if they're having it read to them they'll find the mounting anger that the reader has to feign to be hilarious. Although the book is written as if a child is reading it on their own it really is a good one for an adult to read aloud - part of the...

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Name: June Hughes
02 February 2018;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Fairy Tale Pets tells the story of Bob and his dog, Rex. They have an idyllic life apart from one thing - they are poor. Bob hits upon the perfect scheme to make money - they will look after pets, such as dogs, cats, hamsters, that sort of thing. So, up goes the advert and in...

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Name: Lynnette Voisey
30 January 2018;

Genre: Adventure

A picture book to help explore the phases of the moon. Using black and yellow with white line drawings, this book had all the children captivated on the carpet! I'm not sure if they had ever really noticed the various phases of the moon before but were quick to talk about what the pictures remi...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
29 January 2018;

Genre: Adventure

The Story of Life: A First Book About Evolution, is recently republished in paperback. Firstly, I must comment on the vivid and imaginative language that the author uses to discuss and describe these, sometimes hard to grasp, concepts. Choices such as 'choking gas', 'churning seas' and 'belched...

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Name: Victoria Long
26 January 2018;

Genre: Adventure

I'd just finished the earlier instalment, The Diabolic so I was lucky to jump straight in and pick up the story. With Nemesis to help him, Tyrus has taken control of the Empire. An idealistic and noble future lays ahead. But for those who have read the first book will know, there are plenty of fo...

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Name: K Kaur
11 January 2018;

Genre: Adventure

This is the first book I've read by the author Kate Jane Neal and I think the message is a very important one: Your words have the ability to change someone else's heart and how they feel. It's a message suitable for anybody and for children of any age. Young children may be surprised by the powe...

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Name: Aidan Severs
26 December 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This surprising and striking book appears to stand alone in today's picturebook market - there certainly aren't many books like it, illustrated in an psychedelic style reminiscent of the Beatle's Yellow Submarine film but with an even trippier colour pallete. This is a book which aesthetically st...

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Name: Lesley Earnshaw
20 December 2017;

Genre: Adventure

My class loved this story and it ended our Christmas week perfectly. Many of them had read other 'Supertato' adventures but that wasn't really necessary to enjoy this festive fun. They really liked the heroic potato battling against the evil pea and we could link this to so many other stories w...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
19 December 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This book allows you to travel the world as you learn the folk tales and origins behind some of the animals that inhabit the each country. Accompanied by beautiful illiustrations, these short tales are easy to follow and understand, even for children as young as five. The mixture of well known...

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Name: Marie Berry
29 November 2017;

Genre: Adventure

The Bad Mood and the Stick is a good book for everyone with a moody toddler or child. Lemony Snicket has written a very amusing book which captures exactly how a bad mood spreads and grows all over the place and what simple things snap us out of our bad moods. The story starts with Curly who...

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