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Borgon the Axeboy and the Prince's Shadow
Name: Lizi Coombs
21 July 2015;Genre: Adventure
'Soap - it smells like a flower threw up on you ...' I can think of many, many children I know who will enjoy this book! A sort of barbaric 'Goblet of Fire' for younger readers..., this book is action packed, humourous and easy to access. The historic setting makes it different from many books o...
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Stitch Head: The Beast of Grubbers Nubbin
Name: June Hughes
27 June 2015;Genre: Horror
This book is the fifth in the Stitch Head series by Guy Bass and will therefore find a ready audience in children already familiar with Stitch Head, Arabella and Professor Erasmus. Those children who have not yet been introduced to the monstrous world of Castle Groteskew will, however, not be at...
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Knight in Training: Dragons Can't Swim
Name: June Hughes
26 June 2015;Genre: Young fiction
Sam J. Butterbiggins has been sent to live with his Aunt Eglantine, Uncle Archibald and Cousin Prunella in Mothsdale Castle while his parents are away on important business. Sam has a secret ambition - he wants to be a knight and do all kinds of daring deeds but, unfortunately, he does not know h...
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Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates: Attack of the Giant Sea Spiders
Name: Hayley Nicholson
12 June 2015;Genre: Adventure
Ahoy, shipmates! Once again we set sail with those swashbuckling steam-power ragamuffins. All aboard for another rip-roaring adventure! The Steampunk Pirates once again live up to their names and their chosen profession. Pirates by their definition are not the most well-behaved group, and the Ste...
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The Jolley-Rogers and the Cave of Doom
Name: Emma Small
05 June 2015;Genre: Adventure
Piratical fun in huge amounts for all land-lubbers out there! The story starts with the Jolley-Rogers deciding to swap a day on their pirate ship for a day at the beach. It's soon clear that this will not be a day of sandcastles and ice creams, but instead a high adventure filled with gold treas...
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Foxy Tales: The Great Jail Break
Name: Lizi Coombs
10 April 2015;Genre: Adventure
I was excited to pick this up; I'm familiar with Alex T Smith, having seen him whilst doing my teacher training - I enjoy his Claude series, and so do my current class of year 3s! The story itself is entertaining. The characters, Foxy Dubois and Alphonso the Alligator, are well introduced and su...
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Beautiful Birds
Name: Anne Hastings
25 March 2015;Flying Eye Books' gorgeous compendium of birds gives us a rare and colourful glimpse into birds from around the world, reminding us just how vast and precious these creatures are. It is a lovely book to start looking at birdlife and to encourage children to take an interest in the birds in our na...
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Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates: The Leaky Battery sets sail
Name: Hayley Nicholson
27 January 2015;Genre: Adventure
Shiver m' timbers! This was a good book! For those not in the know, Steampunk in a new type of fiction that puts a science fiction twist on Georgian/Victorian history. The twist is that there is crazy technology all powered by steam engines. In the case of this book: steam-powered robots who beco...
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The Promise
Name: Angela Core
25 November 2014;Genre: Adventure
Few picture books are told in the first person so it's good to find The Promise doing this so effectively. The story is narrated by a girl who tells us what happened to her the day she tried to steal an old woman's bag and how that action changed her life. The woman she stole from made her promis...
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Wall
Name: Fiona Collins
25 November 2014;Genre: Adventure
Wall is a most interesting and unique subject matter for a picture book. It is concerns the Berlin Wall, built in 1961 to divide East and West Berlin, and its publication coincides with the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. Although the book has minimal text the subject matter is definite...
