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  • Words Can Fly: Uplifting poems for children from Sunday Times bestselling author Donna Ashworth

    Words Can Fly: Uplifting poems for children

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    13 June 2025;

    Genre: Poetry

    Words Can Fly offers a cornucopia of poems full of wisdom, reassurance and compassion. The collection is perfect for dipping in and out of and revisiting, somewhere to return to words of comfort and inspiration. A wide range of poetry is included here, enabling readers to find...

  • Choose Your Own Evolution: Go Extinct or Survive? You Decide!

    Choose Your Own Evolution: Go Extinct or Survive? You Decide!

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    13 June 2025;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    How I wish I had owned this book when I needed to teach about evolution! It is such a clever idea to explain the process of change through an engaging, 'choose-your-own-adventure'-style text. Before scientists complain, the authors make it painstakingly obvious that animals ha...

  • Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing

    Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing

    Name: Jennifer CADDICK
    11 June 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing is a lively and exhilarating adventure that takes the reader from the rickety, old (but beloved) Museum of Seaside Stories in the seaside town of Portwhistle to below the surrounding ocean's surface and even down to the forbidden depths of t...

  • How To Train Your Dragon School: Doom of the Darkwing: Book 1

    How To Train Your Dragon School: Doom of the Darkwing: Book 1

    Name: Tracy Parvin
    10 June 2025;

    Genre: Fantasy

    I just love Cressida Cowell: she has that canny ability to create the most wonderful characters and stories. I was first introduced to her works many years ago with the sublime picturebook, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown. It remains one of my favourite children's book, and I urge any of yo...

  • Food for All: What We Eat and Where it Comes From

    Food for All: What We Eat and Where it Comes From

    Name: Louise Gahan
    09 June 2025;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    We all - humans and creatures, large and small - need food to live. But where does our food come from, and who eats what? This thought-provoking and visually rich book explores nearly 20 aspects of food and feeding, from growing crops and raising animals to the surprising eati...

  • The Kindness Quest: Build your empathy, confidence and social skills

    The Kindness Quest: Build your empathy, confidence and social skills

    Name: Jen Bevan
    02 June 2025;

    Genre: Personal Growth

    From the best selling author of The Happy Tank comes an adventure into kindness. The Kindness Quest takes children and their carers on a journey into kindness. They get to explore kindness history, read quotes about kindness and work on being kind in all areas of life. ...

  • Choose Your Own Evolution: Go Extinct or Survive? You Decide!

    Choose Your Own Evolution: Go Extinct or Survive? You Decide!

    Name: Jennifer CADDICK
    01 June 2025;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Ancestors Assemble! is the very clever hook to this brilliantly unique and absorbingly interactive exploration of the history of evolution, which takes us back to the very starting point of life on earth. Fascinating facts across millions of years of evolution are made...

  • Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing

    Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    01 June 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing is the amazing first book in the new series by Martin Stewart. This story has all the ingredients of an award-winning story which is well thought through and put together in a way which will engage the reader from beginning...

  • Valley of the Vikings

    Valley of the Vikings

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    22 May 2025;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    When Thor and Neptune are fighting a mighty battle, a chasm opens which swallows a Viking ship and its crew, taking them to the depths of the sea. Year later, semi-mer Emily Windsnap is swimming with her friend Shona when she finds a bangle set with a glowing blue crystal. They learn that the...

  • Ajay and the Red-winged Prince

    Ajay and the Red-winged Prince (Woodland Explorers Club)

    Name: Jane Rew
    20 May 2025;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    Children who have enjoyed the previous two titles in this series will already know Ajay as Shyla's cousin, the small, fast, funny one who wants to be an archaeologist. We also meet Leon again (he's usually up to no good) and Fujiko (who is good at tree-climbing) for the first time. Thes...