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When Darwin Sailed the Sea: Uncover how Darwin's revolutionary ideas helped change the world
Name: Samantha Phillips
07 July 2020;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
This is a brilliant example of a non-fiction picture book for young readers. I have no doubt that it would be a welcome addition to any child's bookshelf, or primary school classroom. Written using clear concise, child friendly language, while including enough detail to answer the numerous qu...
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Name: Carol Carter
02 July 2020;Genre: Adventure
Charlie Merriam is having a tough time. He's wished for a baby brother for years, but when baby Dara finally arrives, it's on Charlie's birthday and Dara is not what Charlie expected -he's tiny, screaming, and very poorly. It's all just too much and the only thing Charlie can think of to do is...
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A New Green Day
Name: Jessica Bunney
02 July 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
A New Green Day is a playful book which provides its readers with a guessing game on the turn of every page; riddles about familiar creatures or objects in nature. The reader can enjoy piecing together the clues within nature's riddles - encouraging them to be curious detectiv...
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When Stars are Scattered
Name: Dan Katz
02 July 2020;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. They have been there for seven years when the story opens, having fled Somalia together when Omar was four after their father was killed and their mother disappeared. Arriving at the camp, they are adopted by Fatumah,...
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The Wild Way Home
Name: Nicola Cleveland
01 July 2020;Genre: Adventure
Charlie has long dreamed of having a sibling and is delighted when he's woken on his 12th birthday to be told he has a baby brother. But his happiness doesn't last when he discovers Dara is very poorly. He's not the pink, beautiful baby brother he was expecting. As fear takes over, Charlie run...
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Do Not Disturb The Dragons
Name: Nicki Cleveland
29 June 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Princess Grace knows how lucky she is to be living in Wondermere Castle, but that doesn't stop her resenting the rules - all 947 of them - especially the ones that say she can't play troll-o, be a knight or have ice-cream for breakfast. The rules are there to keep the dragons nesting in the ca...
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What the Dinosaurs Saw: Life on Earth Before Humans
Name: Bryony Davies
25 June 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
What the Dinosaurs Saw: Life on Earth Before Humans is am ambitious book covering billions of years of prehistory. Beginning with the Big Bang, the book covers life on earth until early humans. Cleverly designed with a timeline running along the bottom of each page, this is go...
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The Switch Up: L. A. Exchange
Name: Elen Green
25 June 2020;Genre: Friends and family
I loved the first Switch Up book by Katy Cannon, where two teenage girls, who look very similar, meet at an airport and decide to swap their lives for the summer. What could possibly go wrong?The second book, Switch Up: L.A. Exchange, sees the girls - Willa and Alice - on holiday t...
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Hotel Flamingo Fabulous Feast
Name: Lucy Newton
23 June 2020;Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction
This is a story about lots of different animals and their life at Hotel Flamingo. Anna works alongside lots of different animals on Animal Boulevard; they spend their time trying to come up with a plan to get the hotel busier again after the long winter. Luckily for them, Madame Le Pig (the ho...
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Bright Bursts of Colour
Name: Alison Kelly
23 June 2020;Genre: Poetry
What could be better than some Bright Bursts of Colour in these difficult times? Matt Goodfellow's latest publication is a much needed pallet of colour and emotion. There's a wonderful poem towards the end of the collection celebrating story time: 'Still Aloud' (p.92). In a pr...
