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Hotel Flamingo Fabulous Feast
Name: Lucy Newton
23 June 2020;Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction
This is a story about lots of different animals and their life at Hotel Flamingo. Anna works alongside lots of different animals on Animal Boulevard; they spend their time trying to come up with a plan to get the hotel busier again after the long winter. Luckily for them, Madame Le Pig (the ho...
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The Funny Life of Sharks
Name: Jenny Caddick
15 June 2020;Genre: Funny Stories
A new topic in the hilarious 'Funny Life Of' books by James Campbell, illustrated by Rob Jones. Something to really sink your teeth into, The Funny Life of Sharks takes an affectionate, fun and fact-packed look at one of nature's most feared predators. See sharks in a whole ne...
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Literally: Amazing Words and Where They Come From
Name: Bryony Davies
14 June 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
Literally: Amazing Words and Where They Come From, written by Patrick Skipworth and illustrated by Nicholas Stevenson, is a journey through amazing words that are in use daily. This book is a true celebration of the 'historical and cultural diversity of our language'.<br...
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Portrait of an Artist: Claude Monet
Name: Nikki Stiles
14 June 2020;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Portrait of an Artist: Claude Monet is one of a series of books published by Quarto focused on famous artists. This book delivers exactly what it says in its title. A portrait of the life of Claude Monet; one of the world's best loved painters. The book tells the story of Mone...
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Every Second
Name: Bryony Davies
14 June 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
Every Second: 100 lightening strikes, 8000 scoops of ice cream, 200000 text messages, 3 million litres of cow burps and other incredible things that happen each second around the world.This is a highly visual portrait of the statistics the author has researched. Ta...
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The Worst Class in the World
Name: Jenny Caddick
10 June 2020;Genre: Funny Stories
LITERALLY, one of the most hilarious books I have read in a long time. Fast, funny and full of 'fiddle faddling'. There are delightful, charismatic kids, an endearing (totally harassed)class teacher and an always looming, bad tempered, horse-braying Headteacher.The Worst Cl...
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Dragon Detective - School's Out
Name: Samantha Phillips
03 June 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
I really enjoyed the first of the Dragon Detective books and was sure it would be a firm favourite for many LKS2 readers; an amusing tale of the unlikely friendship of a young girl and a 1,266 year old red-backed, green bellied, urban-based Mountain Dragon called Dirk. So when...
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Saving Winslow
Name: Dawn Woods
31 May 2020;Genre: Animals
It was the midst of Winter, when night, like an unwelcome guest, came too early and stayed too long'. So starts Saving Winslow. Poetic as usual, Sharon Creech gives us a tale of a young boy becoming attached to a new pet - in this case, a mini donkey. Winslow's mother was so s...
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Welcome to my Crazy Life
Name: Alison Kelly
16 May 2020;Genre: Poetry
The irony of writing a review about a 'crazy life' in the surreal, crazy world we are currently living in does not escape me! Joshua Seigal's latest book, Welcome to my Crazy Life, is a great distraction. He has an astute feel for what make children laugh but also what make t...
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There's a Crocodile in the House
Name: Alison Kelly
16 May 2020;Genre: Poetry
Paul Cookson's new collection of poems, There's A Crocodile in the House, is bursting with fun and rich opportunities to perform. From the title poem on: 'Big sharp teeth / Open mouth / There's a crocodile in the house /... I did not know / What to do / There's a crocodile in...
