Latest Book Reviews
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Guess Who? Boo to You! is the perfect book if you’re looking to gently introduce your littlest one to all things Halloween! The structure...
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One up is a story about best friends. Best friends who fall out because they want to know who is the best turtle. They make their shells...
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Ruffles and the Lost Bouncy Ball is by the extremely talented creator of the hugely successful Hugless Douglas series. Ruffles and the lo...
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Baby's First Cloth Book: Cuddly Bear is an excellent book for babies and toddlers. The black and white pictures and patterns support thei...
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Help bear do the washing after they get smoothie on their clothes! The story follows the stages of putting washing in the machine; each page has an intera...
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At the beginning of this simple, charming picture book, we are introduced to two best friends; Cedric the crocodile and Boo the elephant. The story starts...
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Who doesn't love a spooky, seasonal story when the leaves are falling and the nights are drawing in? Trick or Treat is the perfect, silly...
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Vlad, the Fabulous Vampire is such a fun book to read and share and what perfect timing for Halloween! The cover immediately grabbed my...
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There's No Such Thing as Ghosts is a fun Halloween ghost hunt with a lovely rhyming text and great illustrations. The book follows...
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Bunny has a wonderful holiday every year. She takes her caravan and parks well away from everyone else. She enjoys all sorts of activities and always has...
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Ethel is a totally wild friend. She is also a penguin, and some might say she is a very naughty one at that. One day Ethel runs away to ride on the Ferris...
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Billie's Buzz is one of the most amazing picture books that I have read in a long time. Alison Brown has managed to combine the e...
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Ready to go back in time for a prehistoric adventure? Well then jump inside the pages of this book and step foot in the Time Machine. Joi...
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Every child wishes that they had a suit which they could put on and which would turn them in to a super hero - but Marvin actually has one! Space and alie...
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Who doesn’t like a good ghost story? In this the fifth Adventure Mice story, The Ghostly Galleon, the team are sitting t...
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Milo is a magician, but not a very good magician. Known as Milo the Magnificent, he is really not magnificent at all and keeps messing up his tricks. Just...
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Just in time for the spooky season comes this suitably scary collection of poems from Joseph Coelho. Spooky Poems Aloud is the fourth boo...
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Away from Happy Hills, the villainous Knick Knacks (so called because of his love of stuff) has his eye on a new collection - a collection of friends, the...
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The Reggie Rabbit series is the perfect combination of narrative and graphic novel which will keep the young chapter boo...
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Wildsmith Rowan and her family return to Holderby, when they learn that Prince David has been kidnapped. His mother, Queen Silvana, believes that the Estr...
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One of my favourite phrases as a teacher (and as a mum!) is always 'there’s no such thing as a silly question', which obviously led to children asking me...
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Press Start! Robo-Rabbit Boy Go! is the seventh in the wonderful Press Start! series. Aimed at children who love gaming, this gra...
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Marnie Midnight and the Great Critter Contest has a lovely story line - it is easy to understand. Floyd is a very funny character and I l...
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National Trust: A Story of the Seasons is a timeless treasure. At first sight it is beautiful, with its matt, embossed hardback cover de...
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Michael Morpurgo's Cobweb is very engaging and interesting. Telling the adventure of a farm dog, this book has lots of unexpected twists...
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For five years, Mortimer Folchart, the bookbinder, and his daughter, Meggie, have enjoyed living in peace with their family and friends, leaving past even...
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Totally Chaotic History: Roman Britain Gets Rowdy! is an exciting new book by historian Greg Jenner with excellent interruptions from Dr...
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11-year-old Maisie lives with her father. He writes books telling people "How To" do exciting things, like building a zipwire, but he lives a very boring...
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Throughout this book, I've felt a range of emotions and the storytelling had me intrigued the whole time. The scenes were clearly visible...
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Spooksmiths Investigate: The Cinderman is a frightfully thrilling new comedy horror debut novel from Alex Atkinson. Twins Indigo and Rust...
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Aria is a girl who lives with her family in a strange planet called Terros, during a class experiment she discovers that she has human DNA. Since she was...
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When Ben and his family are forced through economic circumstances to move from the city to a remote bit of countryside, what he does not expect is the mag...
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Kit and her little sister, Libby, find themselves with their mother on a winter holiday on the Welsh coast. When Libby vanishes, not even their mother can...
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Pippa Newton loves nature and loves the time she spends with her grandfather at his cottage in the woods. Her brother, Jed, used to enjoy these trips as w...
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One of the most commonly posed questions in a Lower School English class must be, 'Does it have to rhyme?' Tomorrow We Begin, Matt Goodfe...
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Murder at Wintertide, a gripping festive thriller, takes the reader on a murder mystery adventure, gathering clues that are fringed with danger.</...
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Set in small-town America, Old Wounds is a creepy, thrilling and thought-provoking novel following trans teens Erin and Max who are tryin...
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Charley is starting over in a new boarding school on a remote island. Luckily her roommate shares her love of horror movies, and they bond over Slasher Sa...
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Haunted by her own cyberbullying incident years ago, aspiring ghosthunter Cara is determined to throw off her social outcast status by proving ghosts exis...
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Let's Split Up is a fun (and frightening!) teen slasher story with a knowing nod to classic eighties and nineties horror. Think Goosebump...
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Now, Conjurers is an enjoyable read, part horror fantasy, part relatable older teen reality, incorporating mystery and crime into its 400+ thrilli...
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Our Wicked Histories is a delightfully sinister read that truly appealed to my love of horror and my interest in crime; this novel also...