Children Book Reviews

Name: Jenny Caddick
01 April 2020;

Genre: Friendship

Troofriend - a great science fiction themed, smart and thought provoking story. Sarah's relationship with her new Artificial Intelligence android, Troofriend, is cleverly written with a sense of enthralling tension throughout. It very quickly raises lots of questions in the re...

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Name: Samantha Phillips
30 March 2020;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

This first book in the Dragon Detective series by Gareth P Jones was originally published in 2006, since then it has been tweaked, updated and re-released for a new audience earlier this year (2020). This first book in the series, Dragon Detective: Catnapped!, introduce...

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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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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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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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