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Name: Sue Wilsher
03 September 2025;

Genre: Friends and family

One day, when a little girl is playing in her tree house, a unicorn arrives. Keen to help her new friend, the little girl takes the unicorn to visit places around the town which might make a suitable new home. From the pet shop to the fair, together they explore until, at last, the unicorn fin...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
03 September 2025;

Genre: Adventure

In Maisie vs The Himalayas, their second adventure together, Maisie and her dad, George, travel to Bhutan in the Himalayas to research his latest book, How to Find Hidden Treasure. They find themselves in remote caves deep beneath the mountains, accompanied by Renata, an old a...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
03 September 2025;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Steve Webb is hugely skilled in writing graphic novels and this latest in the Peng and Spanners series is no different. Just like Peng and Spanners' earlier adventures, Who Stole All The Pizzas and <a href="/books/peng-and-spanners-when-...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
02 September 2025;

Genre: Poetry

Perfect for exploring and enjoying at home or at school, Dragon Cat is a simply brilliant poetry collection. There are so many poems here which could be used as models to inspire children - or adults. 'The Bag of Secrets', for example, uses a similar structure to 'The M...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
02 September 2025;

Genre: Science Fiction

We have all been in those situations where we have been paired with people that we do not feel that we can work with. Well, that is exactly what happens to Gloria, the only human at the cosmic cadet academy, in Cosmic Cadets and the Universal Uni-korn. This hilarious ea...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
02 September 2025;

Genre: Friends and family

Unicorn Post is another brilliant book from Emma Yarlett. This story is about a young girl who gets an unexpected knock on her treehouse door and finds a Unicorn on her doorstep. The little girl decides the Unicorn must be lost and takes it upon herself to find it a new home -...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 September 2025;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Phoebe loves art and drawing and wants to be an artist like her beloved grandmother. But her grandmother is getting more and more forgetful and Phoebe can't help wondering if it is somehow her fault that things are deteriorating so quickly. In a fit of anger, she lashes out at one of her grand...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 September 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Hank the goose can be a little bit objectionable - that means bad-mannered and rude - at times. However, he can also be good when he tries which is really important today as his sweet little cousin, Frank, is coming to play. However, cousin Frank might not be as lovely as everyone believes lea...

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Name: Jane Rew
01 September 2025;

Genre: Non Fiction

Illustrator Wenjia Tang has certainly done a brilliant job, making an abstract concept - the theory of relativity - come alive on each page. The illustrations in Think Big: The Speed of Light - from eye-catching endpapers to portraits of Einstein to pictures of warp drives and...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
01 September 2025;

Genre: Magical Realism

Tom McLaughlin’s immense skill as a children’s author is clearly on show again throughout this third book in the Jack the Fairy series - The Week the Bad Fairies Escaped. Jack is not your typical fairy, he is a boy for a start! The clear monochrome illustrations depict...

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