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Name: Amanda Shipton
20 August 2024;

Genre: Funny Stories

Grimwood: Party Animals is the fourth book in the wonderful Grimwood series. In this book we return to the forest where anything can happen. Sharon the Party Crow has lost her mojo! Three parties in one day would have proved too much for most of us! Teamwork, friendship and, m...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
19 August 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

On the face of it, this is s simple tale of a community ripped apart by a disaster, their flight from danger and eventual homecoming. It could certainly be used this way with a younger audience as a simple way to start a conversation about why community is important. However, the themes it dea...

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Name: Maria Faithorn
19 August 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

A Walk Through the Rainforest is a fascinating book exploring rainforests. The author has cleverly written this so the reader feels that they are there, in the rainforest, with the sounds around them. The illustrations further support this by providing detailed, often close up...

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Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
16 August 2024;

Genre: Non Fiction

Guillain and Shoesmith take us on a tour around the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in this attractive, informative guide. Beginning at the turnstiles at the garden's entrance and ending at the gift shop exit. they guide us through many areas, including those open to the public and some behind the s...

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Name: Sara Sumner
16 August 2024;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

Ellie is a 10 year old looking forward to the best summer ever! Her 'one extra sparkle' is Down's syndrome. She loves hanging with Ben, her big brother, but Ellie is getting increasingly more worried about how busy his life is becoming - with football, his part time job and now their new neigh...

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Name: Jane Rew
12 August 2024;

Genre: Non Fiction

How to Save a Life (Little Experts) could be the most important book a child ever reads. Indeed, many adults (myself included) will learn from it, both facts they hitherto didn't know and, more significantly, what to do in an emergency. The repeated refrain is 'stay calm, stay...

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Name: Maria
12 August 2024;

Genre: Early Skills

Telling the Time with Anna is full of clocks and clock hands and is a great way to learn to tell the time with Anna and her Grandpa. Grandpa kindly helps and supports Anna to read the times of the clocks and to understand how the three clock hands work.  The book dips into rea...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
08 August 2024;

Genre: Adventure

A light, lively and action-packed adventure story featuring some extreme Princess power! Bronte Tempestra is a princess turned knight-in-training at St Sebastian's School for Squires. It is only the end of the first term but Bronte has already proved herself a fierce force, ha...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
05 August 2024;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Before you have even opened it to discover the delights within, it has to be said that Welsh Giants, Ghosts and Goblins is a beautifully produced book.  The green hardback perfectly complements the gold lettering and design of the cover by Becka Moor, making this a book to be...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
05 August 2024;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Another riotously charming and comically crazy time-travelling adventure with Silvia Fortuna Juno De Luca - schoolgirl and Demi Goddess! Silvia is used to hopping back to the past to catch up with her family back in Ancient Rome. With the Goddess of War as a parent and...

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