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  • Telling the Time with Anna: First Skills

    Telling the Time with Anna: First Skills

    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...

  • Bronte Tempestra and the Ice Warriors

    Bronte Tempestra and the Ice Warriors

    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...

  • Welsh Giants, Ghosts and Goblins

    Welsh Giants, Ghosts and Goblins

    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...

  • Auntie Medusa and Me

    Auntie Medusa and Me

    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...

  • Hardit Singh Malik: World War One Flying Ace

    Hardit Singh Malik: World War One Flying Ace

    Name: Rachel Bolton
    01 August 2024;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Hardit Singh Malik: World War One Flying Ace is the latest in the excellent series 'Voices' which focuses upon important but less well-known people in the past. It tells the story of Hardit Singh Malik, World War One's first Indian pilot. This is an excellent book on ma...

  • My Family and Other Romans

    My family and other Romans

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    30 July 2024;

    Genre: Myths & Legends

    A fun and fast paced historical comedy read featuring time-travelling Roman role play fanatics and a version of Ancient Rome. My family and other Romans is a lively, light-hearted and entertaining read. Schoolgirl Silvia Fortuna Juno De Luca lives pract...

  • How to Launch a Tech Start-Up: Robotics, Gaming and Other Tech Jobs

    How to Launch a Tech Start-Up: Robotics, Gaming and Other Tech Jobs

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    14 July 2024;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Nosy Crow has produced a glossy, vibrant and absolutely up-to-date look at all things technological with this stunning information book, How to Launch a Tech Start-Up (Robotics ,Gaming and other Tech Jobs).  It is a fun, lively delve into the history of technological advances...

  • Lola and Larch Save the Sunshine Spell

    Lola and Larch Save the Sunshine Spell

    Name: Jemma Jeffrey
    14 July 2024;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    This book is exactly the type that would catch my daughter's eye on a shelf in the bookshop, with its beautiful front cover depicting Lola (the human) and Larch (the cheeky green fairy) and pink foil highlights. Having hugely enjoyed the first book in this series, my we have been waiting eager...

  • Wigglesbottom Primary: The Pirate Cat

    Wigglesbottom Primary: The Pirate Cat

    Name: Jane Rew
    11 July 2024;

    Genre: School Stories

    It's no wonder children love these books: they are so funny, so imaginative, so 'just right'. They may well know an Irfan or Sunita, a Joel Jack or Miss Riley... after all, aren't there similar characters in every school... the ones who see the unbelievable and come up with cr...

  • Agent Harrier: This Book Will Self-Destruct

    This book will self destruct

    Name: Maria Faithorn
    10 July 2024;

    Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

    This Book Will Self-Destruct is a vibrant, engaging graphic novel which will be a huge hit with independent readers. The illustrations throughout the book use only the bold colours of black, red and white, which are a huge hook and draw the reader into the sto...