Latest Reviews

Name: Lucy Newton
20 March 2020;

Genre: Non Fiction

What a lovely book! This non-fiction book is all about how different inventions have developed including planes, computers and radar technology. It explains how they have all come from things that fly such as bees, bats, birds and butterflies. Each page is covered in colourful illustrat...

More

Name: Carol Carter
16 March 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Skeleton Keys: The Haunting of Luna Moon is the second book in the series featuring the brilliant creation, Skeleton Keys, a 'dashing, key-fingered skeleton, with a thousand adventures under his belt and a thousand more to come!' (even if he does say so himself). Mr Keys used to be an IF (Imagina...

More

Name: Bryony Davies
08 March 2020;

Genre: Non Fiction

Professor Astro Cat's Deep-Sea Voyage is a journey through all levels of the ocean from the surface to the deepest trenches. Clearly organised into interesting double page spreads that follow on from each other, this is a highly factual and informative book with superb graphics. Each spread, fr...

More

Name: Bryony Davies
08 March 2020;

Genre: Environment & Nature

I Ate Sunshine For Breakfast: A Celebration of Plants Around the World certainly lives up to its name. This entire book feels like sunshine and full of pure joy from page one.Visually, this book is stunning and joyous. It is a true celebration of plants and nature....

More

Name: June Hughes
05 March 2020;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Sorrel tries really, really hard to be 'good'. She desperately wants to win the holiday promised by the headmaster, Mr Grittysnit, to the pupil who gains the most 'Obedience Points', but her life and eventually the lives of everyone around her are thrown up in the air by Sorrell's discovery of...

More

Name: Hayley Summerfield
23 February 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Fierce, Fearless and Free is the exciting new book by Lari Don. This inclusive collection of traditional tales from around the world features amazing women and their gifts. The empowering tales feature myths and legends from Scotland to the distant shores of the Solomon Islands. To select a few,...

More

Name: Susan Wilsher
20 February 2020;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

This beautiful picture book is an emotional tribute to the history and experiences of African Americans, both past and present. Kwame Alexander's poetry takes the reader on a journey through the little known - the left-out history of those who are unforgettable, unflappable, u...

More

Name: Samantha Phillips
20 February 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Boot and his new friends have found a home, where he finally feels like he belongs: Dr Twitchy's Emporium of Amusements. So when one of his friends loses his nose, Boot takes it upon himself to help find it. His search leads him to the Testing Lab where he discovers Rusty.Rusty is...

More

Name: Carol Carter
17 February 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Trail Blazers - Jane Goodall is the most recent in the useful new middle-grade biography series, focusing on some of history's greatest game changers. The book follows the life of Jane Goodall, from a child with a love of animal stories and a stuffed chimpanzee called Jubilee as her favourite to...

More

Name: Samantha Phillips
15 February 2020;

Genre: Adventure

I am sure that each and every person with a brother or sister has, at some time in their life, wished they were an only child, or at best, that something unpleasant were to befall their sibling. That's exactly the case with Daniel in Fergus the Furball by Emily Snape. Daniel's parents have gone...

More