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  • Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing

    Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing

    Name: Jennifer CADDICK
    11 June 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing is a lively and exhilarating adventure that takes the reader from the rickety, old (but beloved) Museum of Seaside Stories in the seaside town of Portwhistle to below the surrounding ocean's surface and even down to the forbidden depths of t...

  • Tales of Scary Beasts: Six Hair-Raising Mysteries to Investigate If You Dare!

    Tales of Scary Beasts: Six Hair-Raising Mysteries to Investigate If You Dare!

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    10 June 2025;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    A selection of terrifying tales have been gathered into six sections, enabling readers to study the stories and consider the evidence to help them investigate these real-life mysteries. Tales of Scary Beasts is the latest in the 'Real-Life' series from Susan Martineau and Vick...

  • How To Train Your Dragon School: Doom of the Darkwing: Book 1

    How To Train Your Dragon School: Doom of the Darkwing: Book 1

    Name: Tracy Parvin
    10 June 2025;

    Genre: Fantasy

    I just love Cressida Cowell: she has that canny ability to create the most wonderful characters and stories. I was first introduced to her works many years ago with the sublime picturebook, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown. It remains one of my favourite children's book, and I urge any of yo...

  • Food for All: What We Eat and Where it Comes From

    Food for All: What We Eat and Where it Comes From

    Name: Louise Gahan
    09 June 2025;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    We all - humans and creatures, large and small - need food to live. But where does our food come from, and who eats what? This thought-provoking and visually rich book explores nearly 20 aspects of food and feeding, from growing crops and raising animals to the surprising eati...

  • Marching Band

    Marching Band

    Name: Jen Bevan
    09 June 2025;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    Come join the Marching Band as they travel through a bright and colourful world. They march through the city, a jungle and they even march under water. Count the animals and people with instruments on each page. Marching Band is an amazing rhyming book...

  • Escape Room: Game Zero

    Escape Room: Game Zero

    Name: Jennifer CADDICK
    09 June 2025;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Escape Room: Game Zero is a fantastically futuristic, modern and thought-provoking sci-fi adventure quest and battle for survival story, from an author who seamlessly blends classic adventure style with thoroughly contemporary settings. Christoper Edge incorporates the intrigu...

  • Once I Was a Tree

    Once I Was A Tree

    Name: Jessica Bunney
    09 June 2025;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    This book is the PERFECT mix of laugh-out-loud humour and a very poignant story about the importance of trees, and stories. The paper within the book - which was once a tree - tells the story as a first person narrative; a really creative read! We hear all about the jou...

  • Is it a Book or is it a Plane?: Created in partnership with the Play team at Great Ormond Street Hospital

    Is it a Book or is it a Plane?

    Name: Wendy Kelly
    09 June 2025;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    The first thing to note about this book is that it's raising money for charity; the publishers have pledged a percentage from each copy sold to support the work of the Play Team at Great Ormand Street Hospital. Is it a Book or is it a Plane? is a lovely book for young c...

  • Fireborne

    Fireborne

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    09 June 2025;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Lee and Annie have been friends since they met at the orphanage. Now they are both dragonriders and their pasts come back to haunt them. Will those pasts tear them apart or will the bonds forged learning to ride dragons over come what has happened? Set in a land with a recent revolutionary pas...

  • Feel Your Happy: The positive and reassuring picture book about feelings, emotions and sensory overload

    Feel Your Happy

    Name: Maria
    09 June 2025;

    Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

    Feel Your Happy is a book that needs to be in every home and classroom and read to every child because it supports empathy and an understanding that we are all different and all unique. Sloth takes us on a journey with our senses exploring the world through sigh...