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Name: Sue Wilsher
06 May 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This inspiring book introduces the reader to The British Library and to some of the greatest treasures kept there. It's a fabulous celebration of libraries and their importance. Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom are well known for their skill at presenting information and illustration in a way whi...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
06 May 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This exciting guide to the human body is beautifully presented and fully of fascinating facts! Divided into clear sections, each dealing with a different topic - e.g. Heart and Blood, Waterworks - this is such an easy to navigate, clearly laid out book. Each of the nine key chapters is sub-divide...

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Name: June Hughes
24 April 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Dave is a dragon, albeit not a very good one, and is about to fail his Dragon test, despite the best efforts of his despairing parents. Dave, a keen reader, has read about knights and decided this is the life for him, seemingly unaware that the main point of a knight is to slay dragons and rescue...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
22 April 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Coming home to find your family lying on their backs on the ceiling is a good clue that things are not as they should be - but Hamish is no stranger to weird and wonderful things happening in Starkley. To the PDF (Pause Defense Force), any strange occurance means one thing - adventure! Strange b...

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Name: Caroline Gosden
21 April 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Eleven year old Anzo has a problem; he is short, very short, which makes it difficult to be noticed in an extraordinary, noisy family who are all unusually tall. At school he is teased and even the teacher thinks it is a good idea to cast Anzo as all of the seven dwarves in the school play. If on...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
06 April 2017;

Genre: Adventure

King Edwin is the King of Edwinland and loves his people very much. So much so, that he buys them chocolate and sweets every day! King Edwin has an enemy Emperor Nurbison of Nurbisonia who doesn't particularly like King Edwin or his chocolate-loving kingdom. When Empreror Nurbison takes over it i...

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Name: Jayne Gould
04 April 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Property Jones got her name after being left in a bookshop when she was five years old and being put in the lost property cupboard by Michael Jones, the son of the shop owner. When nobody came to claim her, and being too small and confused to remember her name, Property just stayed. Now aged ele...

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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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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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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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