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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The Search for Carmella is an exquisite picture book that takes us deep into the ocean on a search for the mythical Carmella. However, we...
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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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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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When It's Your Turn For Midnight by award-winning author Blessing Musariri is a real life novel about a family based in Zimbabwe. After t...
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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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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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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...
This Month's Picks
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Learning about Mindfulness in The Search for Carmella
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A Wintertide murder
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Learning about change in Flow with the Snow
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
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 
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow 
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 
The Twelve 
The Blind Bowman: Dark Fire 
The Seamaiden's Odyssey 
Sword of the Sun: a breathtaking tale of adventure, myth and magic 
Auntie Medusa and Me 