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Superhero Gran
Name: Judith Greenall
19 January 2020;Genre: Adventure
This rhyming story is a celebration of all the wonderful things grandmothers do to deserve the title of Superhero! The gran in question has a home full of appealing playthings to create a day full of fun for her two visiting grandchildren, including a fabulous collection of dressing-up clothes a...
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Monsters
Name: Amanda Hamilton
17 January 2020;Genre: Adventure
This book was wonderful, I found myself completely absorbed into the tale of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Woolstonecraft Godwin and Claire Clairmont and their fight against the conventions of a society that rigidly rejected their way of life. Percy, or Bysshe as he was known, infatuated all three...
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Name: Charlotte Weatherley
17 January 2020;Genre: Science Fiction
I absolutely loved spending time in outer space reading Orion Lost; not a given for me as I tend to avoid books set in the future. In the story, a number of families are heading into space to a far galaxy and a new life and the plotline seems to suggest that the excitement is all to come, with...
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The House of Madame M
Name: Nikki Stiles
16 January 2020;Wow! I have had the pleasure of reading a second book written and illustrated by the fantastic Clotilde Perrin. The House of Madam M oozes the same eccentric charm and quirkiness as her previous release 'Inside the Villains'. It's large format, lift the flap pages and intricate attention to detai...
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Monsters
Name: Charlotte Harrison
15 January 2020;Genre: Adventure
Wow! Few books that I've read recently are as pathologically compelling as this one was. A recount of the woman who starts at Mary Godwin and ends as Mary Shelley. The book opens in her teens, with Mary being idealistic, bored and cynical. When Percy Shelley enters her life, it instantly change...
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Name: Janet Fisher
12 January 2020;Genre: Magical Realism
This is the third in Catherine Fisher's trilogy about Seren and the clockwork crow, full of magic and Welsh folklore. I did review the first book The Clockwork Crow (2018), which was very good and this does not disappoint. Seren, Tomos and the Crow are still trying to find the Swan's egg and...
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How to Make a Better World
Name: Bryony Davies
11 January 2020;Genre: Adventure
How to Make a Better World by Keilly Swift is aimed at 7-9 year-olds and is a large hardback book filled with bright colourful pages. The attractive presentation make it inviting and I know that children will enjoy dipping into it and learning more about the world around them and how to help. T...
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This Book Can Read Your Mind
Name: Joanna Hewish
11 January 2020;Genre: Adventure
Laugh out loud funny! With bright pink elephants wearing silly pants and parping loudly, what is not to love about this story if you are four to six years old? This Book Can Read Your Mind is a cleverly written picture book that claims to read your mind. The story uses the power of suggestion b...
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Name: Lorraine Ansell
11 January 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Evey and her little sister have just witnessed the horrific murder of their mother, a suspected witch, by a band of men. Fleeing for their lives and hunted, they take refuge in the forest and search for the coven, their mother's last instruction ringing in Evey's ears. Once safe, Evey strikes...
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Name: Jessica Bunney
11 January 2020;Genre: Picture Books
This wintery rhyming tale takes you on a journey of self-acceptance, reminding the reader that they are perfect just the way they are and that we should relish our childhood and not wish to grow up too fast. This book has been recognised for its likeness to Rachel Bright and Julia Donaldson's cha...
