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Under the Same Sky
Name: Emma Castle
19 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
Britta Teckentrup's beautiful painterly imagery, clever peep-throughs and simple rhyming text make this picture book a real treat to share with younger children. It's also a wonderful reminder about the oneness of our Earth - wherever we come from, we all live 'Under the Same Sky'; we sing the sa...
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Little Explorers: The Farm
Name: Lizi Coombs
18 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
This is a charming 'lift the flap' book that tells children all about different aspects of a farmyard. From the buildings to the animals, each page is bright and interesting, with short sentences that introduce children to subject specific terminology and jobs that children might not be familiar...
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Little Explorers: Dinosaurs
Name: Lizi Coombs
18 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
This is a 'lift the flap' book that tells children many different facts about many different dinosaurs. From the environment they lived in to how dinosaur eggs hatched and how different dinosaurs got their names, this is an engaging book which presents the facts in short, clear sentences. It has...
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The Bad Bunnies Magic Show
Name: Marie Berry
12 June 2017;Genre: Young fiction
The Bad Bunnies Magic show is a highly amusing tale of two bunnies, Abra and Cadabra. In the tale we hear that how, due to 'unforeseen' circumstances, there needs to be a change to the scheduled Magic Show and Abra and Cadabra step in to take over the show. Both Bunnies then partake in daredevil...
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Bob's best ever friend
Name: Joanna Hewish
28 May 2017;Genre: Adventure
A truly heart-warming story that all readers - children and adults alike - will be thrilled to read this wonderful tale. This story is a companion to 'Man on the Moon - a day in the life of Bob' (both newly re-issued by Templar) and the stories are purely delightful to read. The illustrations ar...
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Build a T-REX
Name: Nikki Stiles
15 May 2017;Genre: Adventure
Build a T-REX is a great non-fiction text. The board book includes 3D model pieces to make your own T-REX. I tackled this book with my 6-year-old daughter and she couldn't wait to get started. The text on each page is short and simple, enough to read alone with just the right amount of key vocabu...
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Grandad's Secret Giant
Name: Nikki Stiles
15 May 2017;Genre: Adventure
Billy spends a lot of time with Grandad listening to his stories, but this is one, he just does not believe is possible. Grandad tells Billy about the heroic secret giant who lives in town and goes around doing all the good things unnoticed. One early morning Billy finds himself face-to-face with...
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Walk this wild world
Name: Marie Berry
08 May 2017;Genre: Adventure
We use 'One Night, Far From Here' by Julia Wauters as one of our KS1 English reading, writing and topic units - 'Walk This Wild World' would be a superb complement book to use along side this unit of work. Each page within this book encounters a different location across the world. A small poem...
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I'm going to eat this ANT
Name: Marie Berry
08 May 2017;Genre: Adventure
I'm going to eat this Ant is a rather quirky tale of the Anteater who catches an Ant and spend the book explaining to it how it's going to eat it. And what a lot of graphic options are on offer, from between bread in a sandwich to sliced and diced like salami. I think this book would need to be...
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Tibs, the Post Office Cat
Name: Kyle Matravers
06 May 2017;Genre: Adventure
Joyce Dunbar has created a lovely book based on what is said to be a real cat: Tibs. The story is set in the 1950s, an age where the post was sorted by hand and many, many letters were handled each day. Tibs comes from a long line of famous Post Office cats and his day has come to rid the Post...
