Children Book Reviews

Name: MIAOSHAN PAN
02 April 2021;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

I just love it, my child just loved it so much and he started continuing reading more and more books this is a really entertaining book that you have to read, by my opinion, I think it encourages kids to read more.

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Name: Kyle Matravers
02 April 2021;

Genre: Animals

Do you remember the story of the bear who found the piano in the woods? Years later, the dream is over and Bear has returned to the forest. The piano stands forgotten in the clearing, but can new arrival Little Bear convince her father to play once again? The Bear, the Piano and Little Bear's...

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Name: Hayley Summerfield
02 April 2021;

Genre: Adventure

The amazing new sequel - Pizazz vs The New Kid by Sophy Henn - is a witty reminder that superheroes are human too. This humorous story mixes the reality of being a superhero with the stresses of everyday life. Pizazz is back, she is still super funny and her character is still full of wit and...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
02 April 2021;

Genre: Friends and family

Sofia lives with her mother and little brother, Ermin, and their pet crow, Corvith, on the outskirts of Sienna. Their home, set in the grounds of a ruined monastery, is a charnel house made of bones, and her mother is a bone-binder, famed throughout the city for her work. Smallpox has ravaged...

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Name: Jane Rew
02 April 2021;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Tom Percival is another writer of extraordinary ability who can not only devise wonderfully weird story lines, but can illustrate them so amazingly well that we are drawn into every action- and emotion-packed scene as if we were really present in Erika's world. At the start of A...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
01 April 2021;

Genre: Magical Realism

Nervous, shy, (and definitely not brave) Alfie Blackstock's life is turned upside down when he becomes an orphan and is sent to gloomy, creepy Switherbroom Hall to live with two unknown and unusual aunts who might possibly be (definitely are) witches. Added to that is the appearance, in the du...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 April 2021;

Genre: Magical Realism

A Pages and Co 3 - Tilly and the Map of Stories; A man walks into the bookshop Pages and Co and cannot remember what he came in for. Tilly and her family feel something is not quite right but cannot work out what it is. The wicked siblings Decima and Melville Underwood are now...

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Name: Jane Rew
01 April 2021;

Genre: Friends and family

The Incredible Record Smashers is the tale of a girl whose mum suffers with depression, and her attempts to help, which don't exactly go to plan. How did she believe that trying for a new world record (catching kumquats in her mouth) or meeting famous singer Paul Castellini co...

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Name: Catherine Purcell
01 April 2021;

Genre: Fantasy

First page - double page spread of Wormwood. A map is essential if you're to introduce me to the new world you've built and expect me to embrace it, so I heartily approve of maps at the start of a fantasy...it also means that I need to grab a bookmark as inevitably I'll need to check back to m...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
01 April 2021;

Genre: Family & Home

If anyone can find a silver lining in a rain cloud, it will be Joy Applebloom. Her whole life has been spent travelling the world with her adventurous parents. Then, without warning, they return to a nondescript part of England to look after her grandfather. His humdrum life is hidebound by ro...

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