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Name: Marie Berry
18 July 2016;

Genre: Adventure

This new take on the traditional tale of Sleeping Beauty is a refreshing and interesting story. Sticking with original story, a young baby is cursed by a wicked witch, that on her 16th birthday, she will prick her finger and sleep for one thousand years. However the story is placed in a more mo...

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Name: Class 6
11 July 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Too Many Toys, reviewed by Class 6 children at Dringhouse Primary School: Ruby;I think this book is really good because children can connect to it, I have a lot of toys and I struggle to put them away! It would be a good book for encouraging children to give their books away. Annie: I think th...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
10 July 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Aubrey is born with 'the howl of the wolf'. Described by the nurse as 'rambunctious' at birth, he tries to run before he can walk and manages to crash his parent's car into that of his neighbour when he is four. When his father is overcome by despair, Aubrey is determined to rescue him. Helped by...

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Name: Emily Beale
04 July 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Did you know that sharks can be found swimming in every ocean on the planet? Sharks are some of the most successful underwater hunters on Earth but there is so much more to learn about these amazing fish. Owen Davey's latest book Smart About Sharks explores so much about what makes a shark, a sha...

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Name: Lucy Newton
01 July 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Counting lions is a beautiful book. It is full of detailed drawings of different wild animals in their natural groups. At the beginning, there is a thoughtful message about endangered species and how we are putting them at such risk. It also draws on different habitats and the groups that animals...

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Name: Jane Best
28 June 2016;

Genre: Adventure

This large-format book by the creators of 'Maps' takes us - as the double-sided cover suggests - through the Earth's secrets, underground and under the sea. These are huge areas to mine for information and since we don't usually spend much time exploring these places, there is a lot of useful in...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
20 June 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Set in the 1950s, Annabel - lover of science fiction - is living under an evil spell. Cursed on her first birthday by a spiteful witch to prick her finger on a needle and die, Annabel lives with her two aunts, who have done their best to lessen the spell. Despite their care, she does prick her fi...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
18 June 2016;

Genre: Adventure

A mixture of elements of Sleeping Beauty and elements of Snow White, The Sleeper and the Spindle is a very Neil Gaiman twisting of these fairy tales. No reference is made to these tales for 'names are in short supply in this telling'. Princes are very much in the background - hanging in the rose...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
15 June 2016;

Genre: Humour

If words make up stories, and letters make up words, then stories are made of letters. In this menagerie, we have stories, made of words, made FOR all the letters. This big, bright book offers twenty-six short stories - one for each letter of the alphabet! Whether read in alphabetical order or as...

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Name: June Hughes
12 June 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Jemima Button is seven and her brother Jake is four. Their parents, when they go out, leave them with a babysitter. So far, so normal. The new babysitter, however, is far from normal, though the children's parents never find out just how far from normal Marge really is. She arrives, short, seriou...

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