Children Book Reviews

Name: Mandy Abel
29 July 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Cinders lives with her father, who works as a builder for King Picklebottom, and her stepmother, who is bossy and boring. She doesn't really get on well with her stepsisters - Cinders likes reading, arts and crafts, and playing outside in the forest. She doesn't mind getting messy at all; in fact...

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Name: Carol Carter
25 July 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Cinders and Sparks: Magic at Midnight is a fantastic riff on the traditional Cinderella tale. While the first chapter starts off reasonably conventionally, with a bossy stepmother, annoying sisters and Cinders desperate to attend the palace ball, things quickly fly off on a hilarious tangent. T...

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Name: Carol Carter
24 July 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Warrior Monkeys and the Volcano Adventure is the first in a new series of martial arts adventures aimed at 7-9 year-olds. Set at a monkey martial arts school in the Shanti Islands, we are immediately introduced to the large cast of characters including brave but reckless Suki and her more cautiou...

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Name: Megan Age 11
23 July 2019;

Genre: Information books

This books is about how and why we first went into space. It is an immersive experience telling the awe-inspiring story of space exploration to date, it looks both back and forwards. This book is accompanied by an app allowing the reading to explore videos, diagrams and 3D models through augmente...

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Name: Megan Age 11
23 July 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Starfell is about a girl called Willow Moss, the youngest and least powerful sister in a family of witches. Willow may not be all powerful but she has an uncanny knack of finding lost things-socks, keys, even wooden teeth! Not an exciting gift but useful when it comes to finding a missing Tuesday...

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Name: Connor Age 11
11 July 2019;

Genre: Friends and family

I must say... this is one of my favourite books ever! The way it is ( beautifully ) written makes you feel his emotions as if they were your own, purely because of its relatability, reminding me about my own family relationships and struggles. I can tell you, I am not the one to cry over any si...

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Name: Nikki Stiles
11 July 2019;

Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction

Watching my little girl's face whilst reading this book was priceless. Ada Twist had her giggling all the way through. This book is so in tune with its targeted audience; the characters are relatable and the story is great fun for all budding young scientists. Ada Twist is full of questions. Thi...

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Name: Linda Brown
11 July 2019;

Genre: Magical Realism

A-maz-ing... from the very first page of The Lost Tide Warriors (the second book in the Storm Keeper trilogy), the author puts the reader through a catalogue of emotions, from laughing out loud, to holding your breath, then keeping you on the edge of your seat and then reducin...

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Name: Connor Age 11
10 July 2019;

Genre: Adventure

When I was handed this book, I'm going to be honest, I wasn't sure I was even going to enjoy it, but I'm so glad they did! I loved this book for its clever way of almost convincing you that a monster was right around the corner with its 'on the run' feeling. If I was to sum this book up into fi...

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Name: June Hughes
04 July 2019;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Daniel's class at school are learning about the Second World War and the teacher asks if anyone in the class knows someone who lived through that time. Daniel (the narrator of Chapter 1) volunteers that his grandmother came to England from Germany before the war but, on realising how little he...

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