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The covers of my book are too far apart (and other grumbles)
Name: Marie Berry
03 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
Vivian French has created another super book about the commonly mentioned issues when asking children to read. All the usual excuses about not reading are addressed in this book with lots of real reasons why they are not true. I love how each page of the book begins with a statement grumble fro...
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The New Adventures of Mr Toad: A Race for Toad Hall
Name: Alison Urquhart
02 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
I enjoyed this rip roaring adventure tremendously. As a child I listened to the Ladybird simplified version of the Wind in the Willows on tape over and over. I loved the characters, particularly Ratty and the very silly Mr Toad. This book introduces younger readers to the next generation of the...
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The Royal Rabbits of London
Name: Alison Urquhart
01 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
This is a truly superb book with great writing and fantastic illustrations. I was drawn into the story just a few pages in and felt the years drop away as I engaged with a story that captured me just like Brian Jacques' books did years ago. I am in no way drawing a parallel between the two as Rab...
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The Adventures of Alfie Onion
Name: Jayne Gould
24 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
Aggie Onion has always dreamed of living Happily Ever After in Great Luxury and so marries a seventh son, with the aim of her seventh son fulfilling his, and her, destiny. This child is named Magnifico and Aggie devotes her time to making him a hero, though this means leaving her eighth son to be...
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Bear Grylles Adventures: The Blizzard Challenge
Name: Emily Smith
21 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
This new Bear Grylls Adventures series pits children against natural survival challenges, supported by non other than Bear Grylls. As well as teaching children some possibly useful survival tactics, the books' real strength is in guiding them to think about how they can contribute as one of a tea...
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In Space
Name: Lucy Chambers
20 March 2017;Genre: Information books
I've seen two of the The Find Your Way series by Paul Boston - In Space and Underground. In this series of games, mazes and puzzle books readers embark on problem solving quests. In Underground, the task is to retrieve gold stolen from Gnomes by Luna the Dragon; in In Space the reader is on a mi...
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The Cherry Pie Princess
Name: Jayne Gould
20 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
Princess Peony is the youngest of the royal family, with six older sisters, who as all good princesses should, only care about things like pretty dresses and shoes. Peony would rather be finding out and doing practical things, something their strict governess, Miss Beef, with her well-ordered tim...
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A Race for Toad Hall
Name: Alison Gray
19 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
The New Adventures of Mr Toad bring Kenneth Grahame's irrepressible Mr Toad from The Wind in the Willows back to life in an adventure that has bags of charm and car-fulls of adventure.... Whether or not children have read the original stories on which this new series is based, this story about fr...
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Little Legends - The Magic Looking Glass
Name: Beth Grant
16 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
This is a fantastic little story. I love the way that the story weaves in different fairytale characters and introduces them to the reader in a way that they may have not seen them before. Children will also love the whole idea of a Story Tree. It is a magical story which makes you want to read...
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Lots
Name: Alice Bold
28 February 2017;Genre: Adventure
What an enticing way to explore the different landscapes our world offers, and how humans have left their footprint on it. From the wilds of Antartica to the deserts of Alice Springs and the bustling neighbourhoods of Cairo, this descriptive and evocative book brings the corners of the world to l...
