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Home is a Hug
Name: Maria
21 April 2026;Genre: Family & Home
Home is a Hug is a beautiful book with an important message, bright colourful illustrations and clever lift the flap and peek through pages, encouraging the reader to discover hidden surprises and the joy this book brings. Home is a Hug begins with some builders showing...
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National Trust: Wonder World: Water: The Natural Science of Rain, Rivers and Oceans
Name: Sue Wilsher
21 April 2026;Genre: Environment & Nature
Perfect for curious minds, Wonder World: The Natural Science of Rain, Rivers and Oceans offers an excellent introduction to the science behind one of the most important resources on earth. Lovely illustrations help to frame the clearly explained text as...
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The Genie Game: Grant wishes. Earn points. Escape the game!
Name: Sue Wilsher
20 April 2026;Genre: Adventure
When she receives a mysterious present on her 13th birthday, Valentine Adesanya suddenly remembers her older sister, Vanessa - but she is the only one who seems to realise that Vanessa, or Mango as Valentine calls her, is missing. With the arrival of a text supposedly from Mango to a boba shop...
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Fairy Door Diaries: Eliza and the Flower Fairies
Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
20 April 2026;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Eliza and the Flower Fairies is the first title in the Fairy Door Diaries, a beautiful, illustrated chapter-book series for newly emerging readers. The first page invites the reader to imagine a magical tiny fairy door and then to open it. On entering the door (or turni...
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Frog Town: Cafe
Name: Sue Wilsher
17 April 2026;Genre: Baby & Toddler Books
Little readers will love a visit to Frog Town: Cafe where they can help Flo pour some coffee, squeeze juice with Fiona and pop a cherry on a pie with Frankie! The bright, colourful illustrations are very appealing and each frog on the café team can be identified by the colour...
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Two is a Crowd
Name: Jenny Caddick
17 April 2026;Genre: Family & Home
Two is a Crowd is a brilliant, thought-provoking and sensitively written story with Cath Howe's hallmark empathetic understanding of the emotions and experiences her young readers may be facing in today's society. Two is a Crowd is a tale of transitions and uncertainti...
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The House with Chicken Legs Runs Away
Name: Sue Wilsher
17 April 2026;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Marinka has a deep bond with the house with chicken legs which has been her home all her life. Recently, however, the house has started to act strangely so in an attempt to heal it, she plans a feast for a 'guiding', a party to celebrate the lives of the dead before they pass through the Gate...
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The Butterfly House
Name: Sue Wilsher
17 April 2026;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
The house at the end of Holly's road looks wild and overgrown. Some people are scared of it, but Holly thinks it looks like something out of a fairy tale. One day, she decides to explore and sees a lady at the window. Her mother explains that this is the house's owner, Miss Brown, who has been...
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We Are All One
Name: Maria
17 April 2026;Genre: Environment & Nature
We Are All One is the most beautiful book by the talented Britta Teckentrup. With Britta's familiar, detailed and colourful illustrations the reader is taken on a stunning journey through raindrops, rivers and under stars, exploring the beauty of our world.</p...
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The Island Vet (5) - Storm Bird Magic
Name: Amanda Shipton
17 April 2026;Genre: Environment & Nature
'This world is more magical than we can ever know.' Storm Bird Magic is a well planned and thought-through story where magic, science and adventure combine to create a must read for all young chapter book readers. Although the reading level of this story is aimed at the...
