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Smart About Sharks
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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Counting Lions
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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Under Earth, Under Water
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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Sleeping Beauty: A Mid-Century Fairy Tale
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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The Sleeper and the Spindle
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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Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for all the Letters
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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Marge in Charge
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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Beaky Malone: World's Greatest Liar
Name: Emily Beale
11 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
Dylan Malone aka Beaky, could possibly be the world's greatest liar. Whether he's leading expeditions to the north pole, boasting of his psychic abilities, boxing swans in the park or dodging deadly deceases - Beaky will have a creative answer for everything. However, when extended family members...
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Knitbone Pepper Ghost Dog and the Last Circus Tiger
Name: Kerra Dagley
05 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
The inhabitants of Starcross Hall are all really quite unusual. It's a place where normal house rules simply don't apply. It's where generations of beloved Pepper ghost pets, a goose, monkey, hamster, amongst others, play hide and seek. Winnie, the youngest Pepper is the only living person who...
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Footpath Flowers
Name: Torie Walton
01 June 2016;Genre: Real life
Footpath Flowers (now available in paperback) is delicate, beautiful and carries a poignant message. Through its exquisite ink and watercolour illustrations, Footpath Flowers tells the story of a young girl and her distracted father. As they walk home, through the bustling city, she finds beaut...
