Latest Reviews

Name: Jenny Caddick
14 December 2022;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

A visit to Nana and Grandad's house for the summer holidays always involves Lana and younger brother Harrison's favourite game - playing in the nearby Hollow Tree . This 'magical' tree is where generations of children before them have loved to play imaginative, carefree and memory-making games...

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Name: Linda Brown
13 December 2022;

Genre: Funny Stories

Virtually Christmas is set sometime in the future with Christmas fast approaching. However, it's not like the Christmas that we know today. It has been renamed and is now called Winterzone, presents are delivered by drone, Santa is a hologram - and there are hundreds of these...

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Name: Maria faithorn
12 December 2022;

Genre: Picture Books

An old curse returns to entice and tempt a group of siblings into the Teller’s Hollow. Will the girl unknowingly fall victim to the curse, or will she have the strength to resist it?  Paradise Sands: A Story of Enchantment is an incredibly descriptive and enticing tale...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
30 November 2022;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Meet Bridie Sweeney. She's a little match girl, working hard on the streets of Victorian London to help feed her family; she's poor, hungry and cold - but there ends the resemblance to the famous fairy tale character. As she says, match girls weren't all pretty things with with fair curls and...

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Name: Lucy Newton
29 November 2022;

Genre: Young fiction

Another adventure with Princess Minna. In Princess Minna: The Big Bad Snowy Day, Minna wakes up and sees snow everywhere. She has a snowball fight and builds some dragons but she notices a problem. Her poor grandma can't get out of her house because there is so much snow, so s...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
22 November 2022;

Genre: Adventure

I love these Super Questers books! They are written to promote problem solving, reasoning and a love of STEM. The characters are engaging and diverse and the stories are interesting. I particularly like the fact that each quest is a separate chapter, with an interactive elemen...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
22 November 2022;

Genre: Young fiction

I just adore these Little Tiger short novels. The text is simple and easy to read and well spaced on the pages but the story is at a level that will spark discussion and comparison with real-life experience. The Missing Bookshop is all about the place a small independen...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
19 November 2022;

Genre: Non Fiction

This First Book of Electromagnetism is a fabulously colourful and engaging non-fiction science guide by the brilliant Button Books , who excel at producing bold and very visually appealing non-fiction books that are packed with incredible facts and written and illustrated by e...

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Name: Lucy Hopkins
16 November 2022;

Genre: Non Fiction

Transported is a lovely non-fiction book about 50 different vehicles that changed the world. The book starts with the Polynesian Canoe (several thousand years ago) and goes chronologically until more recent inventions like the electric bike and solar powered aeroplanes. It's g...

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Name: Carol Wright
11 November 2022;

Genre: Non Fiction

Our school Reading ambassadors really enjoyed this fascinating book. The Bedtime book of Impossible Questions answers those questions that you didn't know you had. Perfect for bedtime reading for those who ask 'why what when where and how', it will quench your child's thirst f...

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