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Name: Lucy Newton
25 June 2020;

Genre: Family & Home

This is a nice picture book about a small rabbit. Mini-Rabbit is very keen to help his mother by posting a letter. As he heads into town to get to the post box, he faces many problems including smearing cake over the address and dropping it into the river. As he comes to the realisation that h...

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Name: Bryony Davies
25 June 2020;

Genre: Non Fiction

What the Dinosaurs Saw: Life on Earth Before Humans is am ambitious book covering billions of years of prehistory. Beginning with the Big Bang, the book covers life on earth until early humans. Cleverly designed with a timeline running along the bottom of each page, this is go...

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Name: Ellen Green
25 June 2020;

Genre: Personal Growth

Nervous Nigel is a lovely picture book that carries an important message for children - and adults - alike; that children shouldn't be afraid to talk about how they really feel, and that as adults, we should be better listeners.Nigel, a young crocodile, is surround...

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Name: Elen Green
25 June 2020;

Genre: Friends and family

I loved the first Switch Up book by Katy Cannon, where two teenage girls, who look very similar, meet at an airport and decide to swap their lives for the summer. What could possibly go wrong?The second book, Switch Up: L.A. Exchange, sees the girls - Willa and Alice - on holiday t...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
24 June 2020;

Genre: School Stories

When Jake wants to go to school, his pirate family are horrified and fill his head with thoughts of rotten rules and ten-legged teachers. As far as they believe, pirates don't go to school. But Jake is not to be deterred and convinces his family , through a very traditional pirate method, that h...

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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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Name: Alison Kelly
23 June 2020;

Genre: Poetry

What could be better than some Bright Bursts of Colour in these difficult times? Matt Goodfellow's latest publication is a much needed pallet of colour and emotion. There's a wonderful poem towards the end of the collection celebrating story time: 'Still Aloud' (p.92). In a pr...

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Name: Bryony Davies
20 June 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Planet SOS: 22 Modern Monsters Threatening Our Environment (and What You Can Do To Defeat Them) is a very clever book about the environment and climate change. The author has cleverly turned the biggest threats to the planet into beasts and suggested ways that the reader can vanquish them through...

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Name: Donna Ritchie
20 June 2020;

Genre: Magical Realism

This book drew me in straight away - being a sucker for a story with a bit of magic. It is a story that begins with the two main characters - Ned and Aine - telling their own story. Ned is a young boy whose twin brother, Tam, sadly dies (but is still with him!) and Aine, a young girl whose mot...

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Name: Nia Talbot
17 June 2020;

Genre: Picture Books

Ralfy Rabbit loves to read but, since his baby brother has been born, he finds finding a quiet space difficult. He goes to one of his favourite spaces - the library - but discovers that his book has a hole in it. Cue the hunt for the secret book biter. Will Ralfy find out the culprit?<br...

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