Latest Book Reviews
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National Trust: When Spring Comes is a perfect book for explaining to pre-schooler the seasonal changes that happen throughout the year....
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RUUMBLE! is our first Usborne Slider Sound Book in this house and the other books in this series are now firm favourites...
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Brightly coloured illustrations show a family spreading festive cheer as they perform twelve simple acts of kindness in the days before Christmas. Each sp...
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In this charming book, a family are visiting Father Christmas at a store and in an endless queue. Unknown to the parents, one of the children has brought...
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This simple rhyming story follows Father Christmas as he makes his way across the skies to deliver his gifts on Christmas Eve. Each verse is accompanied b...
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Number Train has fast become my favourite board book of all time! It is so cleverly made and so invitingly presented – and quite possibly the most...
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Dinosaur Hide-and-Seek is a gorgeous hide-and-seek book, perfect for any dinosaur fan! Follow the cute red dinosaur as they invite you to...
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This wonderful story about friendship and difficult decisions is perfect for sharing with Primary pupils. I would use Frank and Bert: The One Wher...
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Frank is teaching Bert all about football. Sometimes things go wrong, but Bert has a new ball and the two best friends are ready to play. When Frank spots...
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Every morning, a little snail sets off to follow their Path. Sometimes this path is shared by others; sometimes it is a lonely one; sometimes hard or unex...
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The Bed Book is a rhyming story, which many children love. They enjoy spotting the words that rhyme together and predicting which words m...
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Square finds his edges and corners hard to deal with. They are always getting bashed and Square is quite miserable. However, he quickly realises that dwel...
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Devil Bird Island is the amazing third book in Gill Lewis's Island Vet series. When her Mum's wallet is stolen and she l...
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Richard Scarry's ABC Word Book is an interesting book to help with children's language development. This book goes throu...
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This is the first book in a fabulous new series of stories for young readers who are dipping their toes into chapter books. The M...
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This companion volume to Once Upon a Tune continues to share the joy of music an...
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Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love is another amazing book in Joseph Coelho and friends' brilliant series. The collection of tiny tales will ins...
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In Celebrations and Festivals: Christmas, readers are introduced to Charlie and his family as they prepare for and celebrate Christmas, f...
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The Year of the Rat is the second in the Guardians of the New Moon series and follows Rat's success at winning the Jade...
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Oh No They Aren't: Nature succeeds in offering a new take on the bewildering beauty and variety of life on Earth, by challenging readers'...
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Ming and Miaow's Great Race is the first book in the Guardians of the New Moon series. The Jade Emperor has created a wo...
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One Day: A True Story of Courage and Survival in the Holocaust is a wonderfully powerful story to highlight the courage, resilience and s...
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Corrie Doon is a Scottish lullaby story that follows Shona from being a small girl tucked in by her dad and having wonderful dreams, to b...
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Pete lives with his dad, who runs a pizza shop, which is losing business due to competition from a new pizza chain opening nearby. Pete loves his home mor...
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In The Cursed Tomb, 11-year-old Henut lives in ancient Egypt in 1249 BCE. Odd things start to happen that appear to be linked to the gods...
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Ice Apprentices by Jacon North is an epic magical debut set in the fantasy world of Tundra. This enchanted place with is...
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Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm is a lively and fantastically fast-paced and imaginatively created, portal-hopping fantasy a...
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The Zombie Project provides a fresh take on this genre where zombies might not just be a threat, but also a nece...
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In this wonderful debut novel, we meet the amazing Meticulous 'Metty' Jones. On her tenth birthday Metty receives her fate - a magical tattoo on her hand...
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Finnegan Quick certainly has a vivid imagination and has some very creepy, fanciful dreams in The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick. My Y6 boy...
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The Legendary Scarlett and Browne, the final instalment of the rollicking Scarlett and Browne series, is another feast o...
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This book is amazing. I love it and it is the exact type of action book I read all the time. I have read it so many times because it is so exciting.
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The Legendary Scarlett and Browne is the third and final instalment of this incredible series following the exploits of the now most want...
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A brave young female protagonist and an action-packed zombie adventure, what a page turner! The Zombie Project is the debut novel of Alic...
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Chianti's world is torn apart when a shocking secret is revealed by her mother. Feeling abandoned by her parents she runs away to her grandmothers for san...
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After ten years of imprisonment for a crime he cannot remember committing, Lucky is ripped free from his prison and swept out into the ocean. . . and resc...
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Cycling home after school one day, Amber Crane notices a few things are different; however, nothing prepares her for the shock of her mother screaming in...
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Girl, Ultra-Processed is a 'no holds barred' look at diet culture and how it can affect your mind, and how young girls compare themselves...
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Saint-Seducing Gold is the second book of the stunning YA historical fantasy, The Forge and Fracture Saga series by best...
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When 17-year-old Leah finds herself holding her family together after the death of her dad, she finds escape in a risky and secretive love affair<...
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When Bessie and her friends decide to attend a secret party at a remote and desolate castle, they are looking forward to a brilliant weekend. However, thi...
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At first glance, this debut YA novel appears to be a fantastical fairytale but is in fact a rather dark and emotionally fraught story of the wild girls. <...
Hunt for the Golden Scarab (Time Keys, book 1) 
Let the Light In 
Witchspark 
Black History for Every Day of the Year 
Amari and the Despicable Wonders (Amari and the Night Brothers) 
Impossible Creatures 
Grimwood: Party Animals 
A Beginner's Guide to Choosing the Perfect Pet 
Trick or Treat? 
Milo's Hat Trick 
Ethel the Penguin 
Oliver's Great Big Universe: Volcanoes are Hot!: A Times Children's Book of the Week 
When the World Tips Over 
Ghostlines 
Anne of Green Gables 
The Falling Boy 
The Colour of the Sky 
Step Into My Shoes 
National Trust: When Spring Comes 
BOING! A Bouncy Book of Bugs 
The Island Vet (3) - Devil Bird Island 
National Trust: A Story of the Seasons: Discover nature through the year 
Flow with the Snow 
Bothered by Bugs 