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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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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If it jiggles just a little, or its home is in the mud, or it wiggles down its middle… oh indeed - it's a bug! Exuberant, energetic and engaging, ...
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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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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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Christmas seems to arrive earlier and earlier each year- or perhaps I’m just getting older! As children eagerly anticipate its arrival, having enjoyable a...
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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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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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An Invitation to the Ballet Theatre, like the other title in the series, An Invita...
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Live Like an Ancient Egyptian entices the reader to explore the richness of the perennially fascinating civilisation of Ancient Egypt thr...
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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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Prepare to be whisked away this Winter to the bitterly cold Tundra and the harshest winds, ice and snow. Surviving life is tough and requires the inhabita...
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In Hunt for the Golden Scarab, we meet Sim Lockier and his mother, Callidora, and learn they have never lived anywhere for very long. At...
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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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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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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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This fabulous new history is an introduction to notable black figures and events across centuries and from around the world. From noted h...
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After reading Luke Palmer’s debut novel for young adults, Grow, I was immediately eager to order his second book Play</...
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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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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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In Let the Light In, Leah's in love and woefully naïve; Charlie's an innocent who has got in way over his head, and only Abby is young en...
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I really enjoyed reading Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart. You might rightly expect this book to be extremely sad but the author has c...
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Robin Hood and Marian have made the forest their home and scores of outlaws have joined them to prepare for battle with the Sherriff of Nottingham...
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Joey is trying to get his life back on track after the disappearance of his step-father and a descent into drugs and petty criminality. Lured by his devot...
This Month's Picks
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Making positive choices in My Path
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Learning about Mindfulness in The Search for Carmella
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A Wintertide murder
Growing Readers See all
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Encouraging early readers with illustrated chapter books
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Meet Nibbles - the Very Hungry Book Monster!
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Look What I Found inspires nature hunts, and reading
Hunt for the Golden Scarab (Time Keys, book 1) 
Witchspark 
Black History for Every Day of the Year 
Amari and the Despicable Wonders (Amari and the Night Brothers) 
Impossible Creatures 
The Reappearance of Rachel Price 
All the Wonderful Ways to Read 
Midnight Magic: Witch Trap 
The Monster Who Was Scared of Soap: A Bloomsbury Young Reader: Gold Book Band 
The Bear Stylist 
The Boy Who Grew A Tree 
Luma and the Pet Dragon 
Happy Hills: Knick-Knacks Attacks 
Press Start! Robo-Rabbit Boy Go! 
Meesh the Bad Demon: The Secret of the Fang 
Journey to Poo-topia (Poo Crew Adventures) 
Peng and Spanners: When Pigs Go Bad!: For fans of Bunny vs Monkey and Dogman 
Bad United: Just For Kicks 
Guardians of the New Moon: Ming and Miaow's Great Race 
Guardians of the New Moon: The Year of the Rat 
The Twelve 
The Blind Bowman: Dark Fire 
The Seamaiden's Odyssey 