Latest Book Reviews
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Baby Faces: Little Lion, Where Are You? is a really lovely board book for babies and toddlers! Bright and colourful pages with large pull...
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Peekaboo Dinosaur is a really lovely, durable and well made board book. The colours and pictures are bright and engaging with pull out ta...
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My eight-month-old baby loved this! Each double page is filled with brightly coloured pictures and has different textures to feel and explore. There are...
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Bhorta Bhorta Baby is a great book for exploring cuisines from different countries and introducing culture through food. Our nursery chil...
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Cat Nap is a wonderful, humorous first book of Steve Antony’s character-led stories for young children. The limited language, focusing on...
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I received this book this morning and have had to read it at least 10 times already. My two-year-old keeps asking for it again and again. He particularly...
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Is it a Seed? depicts a colourful and creative journey through the imagination of two children when they discover a mysterious seed and b...
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Have you ever struggled falling asleep? Meet Bill, his head is so full of ideas it stops him sleeping. This would be fine but Bill is keeping his friends...
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Measuring Me is a fantastic book to share with children who are fascinated by numbers! The book uses beautifully draw illustrations to il...
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Little Frog and his family live by the river and play on its bank, but they stay away from the old tree stump where the Big Scary Thing lives. One day, ho...
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A Midsummer Night's Drama is a beautiful bedtime story for little bards which tackles the tricky problem of getting to sleep! The book is...
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How Many Dinosaurs is too Many? asks the child (gender unspecific) in this vivid and vibrant picture book. When the child gets a real ora...
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Have you ever thought of looking at the world around you in a different way? This book teaches all who read it to look at each situation from a happy pers...
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Catherine Cawthorne and Sara Ogilvie join forces to create a unique and instantly captivating book in Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales....
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The Girl and the Mermaid is the beautiful new book by winning duo Hollie Hughes and Sarah Massini. The front cover is shiny and sparkly,...
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If you haven't already fallen in love with little Pedro and the Adventure Mice, then you are in for an absolute treat. True to form this newest adventure...
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Who doesn't love a book with a map? Well… I (and my three-year-old grandson, Archie) love a fictional map! A map has that capacity to bring a book alive a...
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I am a 'Meet the…' collector as I really love the way Caryl Hart makes informative texts so full of personality, passion and character. A frequent reader...
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Bad United: Just for Kicks is the first book in a super and silly graphic novel series by Louise Forshaw. Hoof is the football-loving uni...
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Twins Scarlett and Thomas have a secret. When they stay with their grandad, they get to travel to different places to experience life throughout history....
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Peng and Spanners is a dazzling delight of a graphic novel! A detecting duo made up of Peng, a dry-witted, sarcastic penguin, and Spanner...
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The Pinchers and the Diamond Heist focuses on the Pinchers, a family of criminals, and particularly on Theo, who is good at lots of thing...
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Totally Chaotic History: Ancient Egypt Gets Unruly! is an accessible and hugely informative fact book written entertainingly by historian...
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A Hugh Dunnit Mystery: Taking Shelter is a hilarious new detective story by Guy Bass. This book is funny to its core and incorporates com...
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"Until a monster swallowed her PE kit, Bitsy's evening had been going to plan." A fantastical, imaginative adventure awaits when the reader is swept into...
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Coll lives in Wolf, one of several Constructs, technological creatures, that control the lands and fight each other for territory. Coll is a bit different...
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Alyssa and the Spell Garden is an enchanting fantasy story that is set in a small London community. Alexandra Sheppard uses the story to...
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When her sister vanishes after a mysterious earthquake, Ysolda sets off to find her, setting foot in the castle of the dreaded Wolf Queen. Can Ysolda resc...
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Sent to live with his uncle in the Lake District, Will is faced with a life far removed from the one he is used to. When he makes friends with Omar, a ref...
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Heather and her friends Lloyd, Nat and Arlene live at Fablehouse, a home for mixed-race children born after World War 2. Following their adventures in Fae...
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This is a heart-warming, humorous coming-of-age story written by the Yoto Carnegie Medal-shortlisted author of <a href="/books/steady-for-this-the-laugh-o...
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Will and his father have fallen on hard times. After an accident at work his father lost his job and cannot find other work, resulting in a move to a grot...
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Identity, heritage and belonging are hot topics in YA fiction and Amanda Addison fulsomely addresses them in her new book, Looking for Lucie</stro...
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I like this book because it is very informative and spreads awareness about important things in life like racism and disabilities, which are very crucial...
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13-year-old Kamaria Kessy lives in Philadelphia with her Momma and Baba (father), who are originally from Tanzania. Kamaria loves running and rhythm; she...
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12-year-old Yara Sulimayah lives in Bournemouth. When she loses her mother in a tragic accident, she is left alone and is about to go into care. Things ch...
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Written by Nigerian-German author Efua Traore, Sister Spirit is her first novel for older readers. This supernatural mystery/thriller wil...
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Mina and the Cult is the third in the Mina series, and is a YA murder mystery set in New Orleans. In this book we see Mina, her si...
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"It is hard to tell a love story and also the story of a people being torn apart" but Crossan achieves this magnificently in her latest and best verse nov...
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Lie or Die is such a page turner, it kept me on the edge of my seat as I read every word! This is an exhilarating read full of high stakes, tensio...
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All the Wonderful Ways to Read by Laura Baker and illustrated by Sandra de la Prada is a journey through all the different ways one can r...
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Despite the clue in the title, the reappearance of the focus of this brilliant new YA novel from Holly Jackson still surprised me! I was so deeply immerse...