Children Book Reviews

Name: Linda Brown
04 February 2019;

Genre: Fantasy

A World Without Princes is book two of the magical The School for Good and Evil series. This part of the story is deeper and darker, with pacy twists and turns that help keep the reader enga...

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Name: Leanne Woolcock
03 February 2019;

Genre: Adventure

The Dog Who Lost His Bark is a beautifully written and illustrated tale of friendship when people, and animals, need it the most. While the front design is unquestionably charming, with such a short blurb I believe I would have easily passed this by in a bookshop but I have to confess, I am so v...

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Name: Emily Beale
03 February 2019;

Genre: Adventure

At Buckingham Place, the headquarters of the Royal Rabbits of London, Shylo Tawny has fallen asleep whilst on duty. It is his responsibility to protect the palace but his secret hiding place in the permits of the Queen's curtains was so comfortable, he dozed off. While he slumbered, thieves enter...

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Name: Linda Brown
31 January 2019;

Genre: Fantasy

The School for Good and Evil was not what I was expecting when I picked it up! This is a funny, frightening, fast-paced twist of a story about the fairy tales that we have all grown up with (I have placed it in the fairy tale category, but could also be called fantasy). <p...

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Name: Janet Fisher
31 January 2019;

Genre: Real life

This is one of those quirky stories which is very hard to place in a category and to suggest a readership. Set in the US in the 1970s, it tells of a Lenny (Lenore), her mother and her brother Davey who just keeps growing. Their father, after many journeys away, simply does not return one day s...

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Name: Azra Age 11
30 January 2019;

Genre: Fantasy

This book follows Crystal Run which I loved. I loved this book because there is always a mystery that needs to be revealed and a ending to be discovered. In this book, the main characters Kaia and Joe have been taken prisoner but have to escape back to Carcassia, to stop other Runners from being...

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Name: Alison Kelly
28 January 2019;

Genre: Poetry

The idea of words arranged to form a shape stretches back to ancient times. There are examples from Greek Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE, where words have been shaped to form an egg, wings and pan pipes. It's a very natural form to have been adopted by children's poets with its im...

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Name: Lola Age 11
28 January 2019;

Genre: Fantasy

I liked this book because of the mysteries - it shows that magic doesn't just solve problems. Many people believe Tilly is just seeing things when she says she has seen Alice from Alice in Wonderland and Anne from Anne of Green Gables - then she discovers the Book Wanderers...

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Name: Catherine Age 10
27 January 2019;

Genre: Adventure

I like this book because tons of events happen and surprises pop up along the way. It was filled with secrets and it was soooo good - I found it hard to put the book down.

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Name: Catherine Age 10
27 January 2019;

Genre: School Stories

I liked this book, although it wasn't my favourite, but it was funny and I laughed throughout the whole story. I would recommend this to anyone who likes a good laugh-out-loud story. He was warned there would be consequences.... Then the naughtiest boy finds himself turned into the head teache...

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