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Pandora
Name: Fiona Collins
10 December 2016;Genre: Adventure
Pandora is a touchingly beautiful story which focuses on a fox type creature named Pandora who lives alone in a land of broken objects. It is a land of desolation. Her small house sits balanced on tall silts within the sombre landscape which is devoid of any bright colour. Within this setting Pan...
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The Star Tree
Name: Fiona Collins
10 December 2016;Genre: Adventure
In many ways The Star Tree is a dreamy book. The story follows Mia who dreams of flying away, which she does. Her night time adventures see her flying on a horse and an owl through the night sky, then sailing on a boat with a red hare and flying in a balloon with a white bear. The delightful chal...
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The Diabolic
Name: Shannon
25 November 2016;I found the book to be very enjoyable, with many plot twists and exciting events. Once I started reading the book, I was entranced by the story and deeply involved in Nemesis's life. However, I found the story quite hard to get into and some words were quite difficult. I feel that the book could...
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The Diabolic
Name: Charis
25 November 2016;Genre: Adventure
This book contains conflict, romance and murder. Although initially difficult to understand, The Diabolic is an engaging, well thought out book. I could not tell at any point what would be coming next so I just couldn't put it down. I liked how independent and strong minded Nemesis was.
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Would you rather....shake like a dog or climb like a cat?
Name: Kyle Matravers
13 November 2016;Genre: Adventure
The domestic pet edition of the 'would you rather...' series allows children to learn more about the pets that they may share their house with or wish they did. Following the same model as others in the series, children are faced with a choice of questions where they control the direction of the...
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Would you rather....Have teeth like a T-Rex or Armour like an Ankylosaurus?
Name: Kyle Matravers
13 November 2016;Genre: Adventure
This book is one of the 'Would you rather...' series and offers children the chance to learn all about dinosaurs. The idea behind the book is children are faced with a series of multiple choice 'would you rather' questions which lead them to learn something about a dinosaur with a particular ski...
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Green Gobbler
Name: Lynnette Voisey
13 November 2016;Genre: Adventure
What a lovely idea to include non -sense words within a story. I read Green Gobbler to the class who have only been in school for 3 months and it was interesting to see who could hear the phonemes and blend them in their heads in order to say the word. At this stage of the year they are developi...
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Snail Mail
Name: Marie Berry
29 October 2016;Genre: Adventure
As a teacher you once in awhile find a little diamond of a book that you think, 'I must find a way of using this text in my teaching', and Snail Mail is such a book. For starters, I just loved this books itself. Cute story, fab illustrations and the pull out postcards were a really engaging and...
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Dixie O'Day On His Bike!
Name: Kyle Matravers
29 October 2016;Genre: Adventure
Dixie and Percy are dogs. Dogs who are best friends. Best friends who love to go on adventures together. In their latest adventure, the friends swap four wheels for two. They may have less wheels to worry about but there's more trouble in store for them with plenty of bumps, bangs and of cour...
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Danny McGee Drinks the Sea
Name: Marie Berry
29 October 2016;Genre: Adventure
Andy Stanton has written an interesting and engaging story about Danny McGee's adventure eating the world around him. The story is written in attractive rhyming couplets which help create a fun and responding rhythm to the story. This kind of story is really fun to read with younger children as...
