Children Book Reviews

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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Name: Bryony Davies
01 April 2021;

Genre: Environment & Nature

By Ash, Oak and Thorn is full of the wonder of nature and the environment. Explore the world from a different perspective and join three funny and caring beings on their adventure. In By Ash, Oak and Thorn, the reader joins three ancient beings - Hidden Folk - on a wild...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 April 2021;

Genre: Historical Fiction

When disaster strikes the Forest at the start of Skin Taker, it seems as if the sun will never wake and the Clans are left in chaos. Torak, Renn and Wolf must face dangers and demons and find a way to bring back the First Tree if their world is to survive. But Torak is caught...

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Name: Donna Burkert
01 April 2021;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Amber Roberts: a typical schoolgirl whose life is turned upside down in more ways than one. Fearing that her parents are about to divorce, Amber is shocked to find that it is something altogether more worrying that they have been whispering about for weeks; it seems her life will never be the...

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Name: Kelly Buxton
01 April 2021;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Skin Taker by Michelle Paver is the latest in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, which follows Torak, a spirit Walker, Renn, his mate and Wolf, his trusty companion, as their livelihood is threatened by an unnatural force in this tense, new wild adventure. Journ...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
01 April 2021;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

When pizza delivery boy and would-be detective Colin Kingsley meets Princess in the local kebab shop, he has no idea of the adventure ahead of him! He becomes a member of the Golden Spatula League (GSL), a detective agency that only recruits children. Each child has a special talent and Colin...

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Name: Donna Burkert
01 April 2021;

Genre: Bullying

When Emmy is playing the part of Emmentine in the online game: Illusory Isles, nobody can defeat her. She is master of her game. She is queen of combat. She is a celebrity. The video of her greatest defeat against The Mulch Queen is legendary in the Illusory Isles world. Nothing can burst her...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
01 April 2021;

Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction

Jasper and Scruff are the unlikely friendship between cat and dog, one clean and one rather dirty! Take a Bow is the new adventure from Jasper and Scruff and their friends. A talent show is coming to Snootington Town Hall and the whole town is attending to see if they c...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 April 2021;

Genre: Magical Realism

Alfie and his family move to the village of Folding Ford where the weather is completely crazy. Ice in the middle of summer, rain over just one house and temperatures and tempers going crazy. Alfie and his new friend Sam start to investigate and Alfie unwittingly lets loose a strange creature...

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