Children Book Reviews

Name: Beverley Somerset
06 March 2026;

Genre: Adventure

Jax, Jovi, Esau and Fourth are the Moonlighters. They love their night time adventures, sneaking out after curfew, when the moon is full, to avoid the Nighthawks and roam the streets of Moonhaven. What could possibly go wrong? There have been no sightings of werewolves for almost 40 years!...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
06 March 2026;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

When a travelling circus arrives in a remote village, everyone is excited. The Circus of Dreams claims to have the 'Monster of Dreams', a creature so terrifying and grotesque it is hardly to be believed. Otto, a young villager, is as excited as everyone else, but when he and h...

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Name: Jemma Jeffrey
05 March 2026;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Wow! What a fabulous activity book Make Every Week Wild is! It features 52 fun activities that promote creativity, exploration of outdoors and connection with nature, so there is something new to do every week for a whole year. We have loved making twig parachutes, goin...

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Name: Brinley Age 8
05 March 2026;

Genre: Fantasy

This is a great and mysterious book for kids.

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Name: Sue Wilsher
05 March 2026;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Silver and her mum have moved ships and are now sailing on the Fabula, a much bigger ship than their previous home. Fortunately, The Gang, her on-board pals who are all over 80, are on the same ship, although her friend, Mo, who helped her solve the last cruise ship mystery, is stuck at school...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
05 March 2026;

Genre: Science Fiction

Chris Bradford's latest offering is an adventure in space. Nova manages to provoke a range of emotions from terror to happiness, curiosity to celebration. The protagonist, Max Nova, is travelling to Mercury with his trucker father when disaster strikes and Max is released in a...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
05 March 2026;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

In Advice from a 12-Year-Old Nobody, Helen Rutter has written a heartbreakingly realistic story about the break up of a family from the main character, Vinny's, point of view. Vinny is struggling to cope with his feelings about the distance felt between him and his Mum...

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Name: Tina DERRY
04 March 2026;

Genre: Poetry

I Tell Myself I'm Awesome is a perfect book for those days when all is not quite right with the world. This collection of poems address all of those big feelings; there are poems to make you laugh, poems to make you cry, poems to spark a debate and others to c...

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Name: Louise Gahan
26 February 2026;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

Wiggling Words tells the inspiring story of a child lost in a forest of letters. A gentle, imaginative journey designed to uplift children with dyslexia and other forms of neurodivergence. Through playful language and expressive illustrations, the book acknowledges how tricky...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
23 February 2026;

Genre: Poetry

In I Tell Myself I'm Awesome, Joshua Seigal presents another brilliant collection, offering his usual mix of humorous, joyful, poignant and provoking poems for everyone to enjoy. T he book is bursting with poems to share, to perform, to enjoy with a friend or to enjoy a...

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