Children Book Reviews

Name: Jacqueline Harris
17 March 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Eddie doesn't feel she belongs in her school. Eating wheelie bins can make you stand out. So she gets sent to a school in another realm, where everyone is a monster of some sort and the motto is 'Be the worst'. Finally, Eddie can make friends, except the very existence of the school is in jeop...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
13 March 2025;

Genre: Poetry

Having received one of A F Harrold's postcard poems, I know that children love his short poems! Indeed, despite the fact that we enjoyed plenty of poetry in class, many were fascinated by the idea that something so short was a poem as well as being charmed by the novelty of getting something h...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
12 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Mice, Camera, Action is the fantastic new book in the AdventureMice Series. This sixth book will excite all early chapter book readers as, like the previous five, every page is packed with adventure, colour and cheeky characters. Reader...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
12 March 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Award-winning author Swapna Haddow has done it again. This is another incredible story which has you hooked from the very first chapter. The lovable characters that we have grown to love return in this beautifully illustrated early chapter book. Bad Panda: For Sale has...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
12 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Muffin, Tiny and the rest of the trainee rescue puffins on the Island of Egg are all taking part in a special festival called Puffin Power. Tiny's team has gained a new member, a little yellow chick called Flotsam, who has appeared and is determined to join in the fun. However...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
12 March 2025;

Genre: Historical Fiction

The year is 1645 and the Civil War is raging. Merriweather Pryce decides to fetch her father to defend their home of Compton Blaize, as it is under attack from the Parliamentarian forces. Dressed as a boy, she leaves Compton Blaize to find him - only to run into deadly danger before she has go...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
12 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Although Henry, Frances and Lukas are no longer best friends, they meet up for the funeral of their pet gerbil. Whilst digging the grave, they make an amazing discovery - a radio which allows them to communicate with another group of three children who live in the very same place, only 80 year...

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Name: Jenny CADDICK
10 March 2025;

Genre: Non Fiction

Moving to Mars is an incredibly detailed and scientifically visionary book created by the collaboration between amazing graphic designers and scientists who are enthusiastically committed to passing on their incredible technological, space-race knowledge and their exciting, fo...

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Name: Jane Rew
10 March 2025;

Genre: Poetry

Some of the poems in AF Harrold's Pocket Book of Pocket Poems have been published elsewhere, as detailed in the final pages, which also contain a helpful alphabetical list of the poems. Adult readers of the small print will note that none of this material may be used for the '...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
07 March 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

When Valkro Strapp leaves a mysterious treasure in the town of Walsham, the inhabitants all develop special powers - except for 10-year-old Sara. She longs to be like everyone else, but her superpower has never manifested itself. Can solving the mystery of the missing football trophy - and the...

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