Children Book Reviews

Name: Wendy Kelly
05 May 2025;

Genre: STEM

The Super Questers are back! I absolutely love these books and the children in my infants school firmly agree. In true scientific fashion, though, this is the Super Questers evolution! Whereas the previous series were large format, brightly coloured picture books with masses o...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
05 May 2025;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Historical fiction is one of my favourite genres and Becoming Grace by Hilary McKay does not disappoint. McKay fictionalises the story of Grace Darling and her family who were custodians of the Outer Farne/Longstone lighthouses at Longstone Rock on the Outer Staple Islands nea...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
02 May 2025;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

Coming of age stories have always explored feelings of not fitting in - but how might those feelings be complicated if you didn't really know who one of your biological parents was, or how many half-siblings you might have? Quinn is 12 years old and donor-conceived. She loves her family...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 May 2025;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Beautifully presented, Secrets of Bees is both informative and engaging. The role of bees and their importance is celebrated throughout the book, leaving readers with a deeper understanding of, and respect for, the brilliant creatures. Fabulous illustrations</st...

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Name: Sharon Porter
01 May 2025;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Puffin is a girl on a mission. She has a family interest in science and loves to investigate things. Her mum is an ecologist and often works away from home, leaving Puffin with her other “family”. After a chance adventure into her mum’s laboratory (into which she is never allowed), Puffin disc...

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Name: Jenny CADDICK
24 April 2025;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

This fantastic non-fiction collection features 22 fascinating, inspirational and incredibly honest and open true stories from a huge variety of disabled writers. Sharing their experiences of being young and growing up, of the challenges, achievements, stereotypes and expectati...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
24 April 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

Ember Spark and her best friend, Arno Whisper, are apprentice vets to magical beasts. When Ember's pet nibblesqueak, Forty Winks, begins to behave oddly, Ember and Arno investigate and find themselves whisked off to the Amazon rainforest. The villainous Tabitha Bone is using magical beasts in...

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Name: Jacqueline Frances Harris
21 April 2025;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Tuuli is travelling with her wolf, Lupa, to try and find Andar's people. Before he was killed, Andar gave the impression that his people were in danger, so Tuuli has set off to find them and may be help. The journey is fraught with dangers for a lone traveller and the weather is strange, with...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
21 April 2025;

Genre: Supernatural

From the very first page this book had me hooked. As the story develops so does the sense of alarm until the final twist and…. No! I’m not going to spoil the ending for you! Suffice to say, The Boy At The Window is a nerve-jangling, page turning, ghost story.<...

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Name: Jacqueline Frances Harris
18 April 2025;

Genre: Science Fiction

Brann used to fly with Raven, but now Raven is gone, destroyed by Dragon. Brann is with Cub, lead by Coll, who was once a Wolf. Brann's crew is missing and so, when given the opportunity to go with Cub to the North to find out what has happened to them, she is desperate to go, even though she...

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