Children Book Reviews

Name: Nikki Stiles
27 August 2019;

Genre: Adventure

We love this book! This has been an instant hit in this household, bedtimes seem to have got later each evening as my girls have pleaded with me to keep on reading. They are definitely motivated and inspired to read more. As the title suggests, each of the chapters in this book is a different f...

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Name: Sam Phillips
20 August 2019;

Genre: Adventure

I've never been a great 'eco-warrior' although I'd like to think that I do my bit. I don't litter and I try hard to recycle where possible around the home, but there always seems to be more, or a need to do more. This great book, written by the original #2minutesuperhero, Martin Dorey, is jam pac...

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Name: James Hewish
20 August 2019;

Genre: Adventure

After reading this we ended up doing a beach clean-up! A fantastic book, one of my favourite non-fictions so far. My son (5 years old) was fascinated by every word, picture, and fact in this book. This informative text, coupled with the Neal Layton's trademark mixed-media collages, are...

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Name: Donna Burkert
19 August 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Oleg and Emma are friends. Their home lives are less than perfect (Emma's mum works all hours just to keep her family fed and Oleg's dad is unemployed and suffering with depression, leaving Oleg to care for his grandmother) but they are held together by their joint need to escape reality and find...

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Name: Carol Carter
18 August 2019;

Genre: Non Fiction

So You Think You've Got It Bad? A Kid's Life in Ancient Rome is the third in a series from Nosy Crow and the British Museum, with Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece having already been covered. These books have a very Horrible Histories vibe, but the larger format and colour ill...

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Name: Bryony Davies,
16 August 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Reading Brain Fizzing Facts is like having every child in your class ask a difficult or random question and you having the perfect answer! Dr Emily Grossman has picked a range of wacky, random and highly interesting questions that cover all areas of science. Each section starts with a question...

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Name: Andrew Mullen
16 August 2019;

Genre: Adventure

We join Arianwyn one final time as James Nicol expertly brings our time in Lull to a close. The war may be over but a witch's duties are never done it seems, even when your closest friends are enjoying themselves with all sorts of Yule traditions. Winter is setting in, dark creatures are appear...

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Name: Kristen Hopwood
14 August 2019;

Genre: Adventure

The Race to Space is a non-fiction book about the race between the US and the Soviet Union to send the first human into space. The book contains fantastic illustrations by Paul Daviz that really bring the words to life. It begins with a history of rockets and how the Soviet Union and US came to...

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Name: Rhiannon Cook
11 August 2019;

Genre: Adventure

In wartime England, 1939, an insular family live and work in a lighthouse, watching over Dragon Bay in the village of Stonegate. Youngest daughter Pet is mesmerised by the Daughters of Stone and terrified of the Wyrm, the perilous sandbank/sea monster from the legends told by her father. Pet know...

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Name: James Hewish
08 August 2019;

Genre: Adventure

John Farndon has given us another brilliant non-fiction book. This time it is all about the natural world from a unique perspective. Bird's Eye View: The Natural World is a picture book with beautiful illustrations from Paul Boston. The illustrations involve lots of intricate...

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