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Willow Wildthing and the Swamp Monster
Name: Carol Carter
30 March 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Willow Wildthing and the Swamp Monster is the first in a new series adventure stories for younger readers from renowned storyteller Gill Lewis.Willow is finding life tough - new house, new town, brother ill in hospital, and she keeps hearing a terrifying howling in...
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The Bat Book
Name: Jenny Caddick
29 March 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
An engaging and easy to navigate Non Fiction book that is beautifully illustrated throughout with detailed, eye-catching drawings of bats and their habitats. The Bat Book has a well-designed layout with bold captions and sub headings . The bat facts are chunked into ap...
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Poems Aloud
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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Money-Go-Round
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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The Last Tree
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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A Robot Girl Ruined my Sleepover
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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Super Happy Magic Forest and the Humungous Fungus
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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In The Sky
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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Fire Boy
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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Skeleton Keys: The Haunting of Luna Moon
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...
