Children Book Reviews

Name: Lizi Backhouse
28 March 2020;

Genre: Poetry

This vibrant book aims to get children performing poems, alone, with friends and in large groups. It's a fantastic introduction to a wide range of different poems - free verse, riddles, rhyming poems to name but a few. There are poems that personify, poems to be read by more than one person, e...

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Name: James Hewish
24 March 2020;

Genre: Picture Books

A beautiful - and useful - story about the cyclical nature of money, and about debt. The author, Roger McGough, takes the notion that money makes the world go round and delivers it back to his audience in an amazingly crafted and beautifully illustrated picture book. The book is a literary and...

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Name: James Hewish
24 March 2020;

Genre: Environment & Nature

What an amazing message this book has, especially for this day and age! The Last Tree looks at the bizarre, destructive and selfish relationship that we have with nature. It is a story about greed and consequence. Emily Haworth-Booth provides the next generation with a crucial...

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Name: Dawn Woods
23 March 2020;

Genre: Friends and family

It's 2099 and Lyla's school announces some special visitors - cyborg robots, designed to look like human children. In an experiment, the plan is for these robots to interact with human children to learn how to become more like them. Three children from the class are specially chosen. As well a...

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Name: Carol Carter
23 March 2020;

Genre: Funny Stories

Super Happy Magic Forest is a cheerful place, populated by all the usually characters you'd expect in a magic forest (unicorns, gnomes, admin rabbits etc.) The residents are happily preparing for the Frolic Festival to honour the Rainbow Dragon who breathed life into the fores...

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Name: Lucy Newton
20 March 2020;

Genre: Non Fiction

What a lovely book! This non-fiction book is all about how different inventions have developed including planes, computers and radar technology. It explains how they have all come from things that fly such as bees, bats, birds and butterflies. Each page is covered in colourful illustrat...

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Name: Samantha Phillips
19 March 2020;

Genre: Funny Stories

Right from the very start I knew I was going to enjoy reading Fire Boy, the debut novel by JM Joseph; a group of pals, sweets that give you superpowers, a cantankerous, walking stick-wielding Granny and an undoubtable baddie, who wouldn't? Add to that the possibility of our yo...

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Name: Carol Carter
16 March 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Skeleton Keys: The Haunting of Luna Moon is the second book in the series featuring the brilliant creation, Skeleton Keys, a 'dashing, key-fingered skeleton, with a thousand adventures under his belt and a thousand more to come!' (even if he does say so himself). Mr Keys used to be an IF (Imagina...

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Name: Eileen Armstrong
11 March 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Malice Morbid Malign is a bit of a misfit in the Malign family - mischief is their business and they take mayhem-making very seriously. They hate books, hate bathing and especially hate being kind and helpful - all the things which Malice adores. The Malign family are from Underland - home of...

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Name: Eileen Armstrong
11 March 2020;

Genre: Funny Stories

Breaking out of the phenomenally successful Tom Gates series was never going to be easy but Liz Pichon's latest standalone adventure story, Shoe Wars, is arguably (I'd say definitely) her greatest achievement yet and forms a fabulous showcase for her very many talents. Shoe Wars brings to life...

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