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Grandad's Secret Giant
Name: Kyle Matravers
06 May 2017;Genre: Adventure
Grandad's Secret Giant is a fabulous book written by the same author who brought us The Bear and the Piano. Billy, our main character, doesn't believe his loving Grandad when he tells him that there is a giant living in town, doing good deeds for all the residents of Gableview. Despite several...
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The Lumberjack's Beard
Name: Maria Faithorn
20 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
Jim is a lumberjack who lives in a forest. Each day after exercising and breakfast he sets off to the forest to chop down trees. After each busy day, different animals come to his cabin and angrily express their situation... they are homeless because Jim has destroyed their homes. Jim takes on...
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Nibbles
Name: Linda Nicholson
06 April 2017;Genre: Humour
What a wonderful story to illustrate how readers 'devour' books - although in this case, the mischievous Nibbles the Book Monster does so literally, escaping from his wooden crate and diving into a pile of books where he promptly chews his way through, changing the endings of the stories beyon...
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Life is Magic
Name: Marie Berry
30 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
Life is magic is a lovely story about Houdini who is a performer in a magic show. Houdini is the Magician's assistant and has an knack for doing all the right things that make him an excellent assistant. One night something goes wrong and Houdini ends up turning the magician into a rabbit. So...
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We Are Family
Name: Marie Berry
21 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
We are family is an excellent and beautifully presented resource to use with children. In its first instance it is a simple poetry book that tells us all about families and how they help and the challenges there can be. But it's the is use of the illustrations that are very powerful. So often...
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Town Mouse, Country Mouse
Name: Emily Smith.
21 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
A simply gorgeous peep-through picture book that introduces us to one of Aesop's most well-known fables in a simple rhyming text. The detail in the images is a delight and simply demands exploration. We see what each mouse has packed - what would children pack for their own trips away? - and the...
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The Unexpected Love Story of Alfred Fiddleduckling
Name: Lucy Newton
20 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
This story is about a little duckling who becomes lost at sea. He is on his way home to the farm with some other ducks when an unexpected storm whips the sea into a raging fury. As the storm settles, the sky is filled with fog and the little duckling feels all alone. Eventually, he comes across a...
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Follow Me Back
Name: Tom
19 March 2017;Genre: Real life
This is full of fast benders and U-turn that will always keep you hook. Without the boring "wittering" that most books like this fall into. I like the way that this is told through Facebook chat groups and various points of view from all the main characters.
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I'm Not a Serial Killer
Name: Tom
19 March 2017;Genre: Real life
I would recommend this book because it offers a chilling insight into our society and how unstable it can really be.
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A Piglet Called Truffle
Name: Beth Grant
02 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
Jasmine is a little girl who loves pigs. Her mum is a vet and one night Jasmine accompanies her Mum to tend a sick animal at a farm. While she is there Jasmine finds a little piglet which is the runt of the litter. Full of love for this piglet she takes it home and nurses it back to health. She n...
