Children Book Reviews

Filter: 

  • Wild City: Meet the animals who share our city spaces

    Name: James Hewish
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Animals

    Wild City: Meet the Animals who Share our City Spaces takes the reader on a wonderful journey through various urban environments from around the world. From Foxes to Flamingos and mice to monkeys this book provides a plethora of information in an unintimidating and easily acce...

  • A Christmas in Time

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    A Christmas in Time picks up the story of Alex and Ruby and the mysterious mirror in their great aunt's house. They have fallen through it for the second time and found themselves in the middle of a typical Victorian Christmas, complete with skating on the local lake and exped...

  • The Egyptians

    Name: Carol Carter
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    From the moment you pick it up, The Egyptians feels like a treasure, weighty and vivid. The thick board pages and over 80 lift-up flaps feel as indestructible as a pyramid, perfect for young history lovers who will pore over it until every scrap of information has been ingeste...

  • The Griffin Gate

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    Another of Barrington Stokes' series of books for dyslexic and reluctant readers, The Griffin Gate is an outright winner! Adventure, fantasy and a little bit of steampunk all combine to make up a real page turner.Grace Griffin lives in Copperport, in the country of...

  • World Burn Down

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Environment

    World Burn Down is a thrilling adventure story with a strong environmental message. Carlos Feliz lives with his mother in Manaus, Brazil. She is a soldier working for the Special Forces Group of IBAMA - the environment agency, and her job is to protect the Amazon rainforest fr...

  • The Castle of Tangled Magic

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

    Olia loves Castle Mila, the ancestral home of her family, a place full of secrets and magic. Although they no longer live in the grandeur of the past, the domed castle offers them shelter and the rest of the village space to celebrate and work. But strange storms are rising and Olia's Babusya...

  • The Castle of Tangled Magic

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

    13-year-old Olia lives with her parents, grandmother Babusya and baby sister Rosa, whom she adores. The family are descended from royalty and their home is the huge Castle Mila. The castle is 500 years old and with its 33 turrets and domes is full of secrets. Olia loves to explore it, searchin...

  • The Time Traveller and the Tiger

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Environment

    Elsie is used to being forgotten and so when her mother gets her holiday dates wrong and Elsie has to go and stay with Great Uncle John, she tries to make the best of it. After all, nothing exciting ever happens to her unlike Kelsie Corvette, the heroine of the stories Elise writes. However, s...

  • A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth

    Name: Bryony Davies
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Fantasy

    A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth is by debut author Francesca Gibbons. The first in a planned triology, this book is a magical fantasy adventure full of heart, hope and humour.We are introduced to Imogen and her younger sister, Marie. Their mum has a new boyfriend...

  • A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth

    Name: Rhiannon Cook
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Fantasy

    A Narnia for the modern age, A Clock of Stars is a magical adventure following two sisters that don't always get along. Imogen and Marie find themselves in a fantasy world after following a mysterious moth through a door in a tree but once on the other side, the door disappear...