Children Book Reviews

Name: Wendy Kelly
11 March 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

What an extraordinary book. Entirely wordless, The Tree and the River looks at a particular place in space and time. A verdant landscape, with a winding river and an elegant mature tree. Turn the page, and there is the same scene except a house is now being constructed next to...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
09 March 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

Withering-on-the-Sand-Sea, like many other villages, is dependent on cloud deliveries from the Cloud Factory for its survival. With rising prices and smaller clouds, Mara and the other villagers are finding life harder. Worried about Old Bern, who is suffering from the Thwart, Mara overhears a...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
09 March 2024;

Genre: Magical Realism

Callie and her father have moved away from London, away from her friends, away from her memories. Struggling to settle into her new life in Northern Ireland, she is staring out of her window one night, unable to sleep, when a loud BOOM announces the arrival of an upside-down house in her back...

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Name: Rachel Bolton
08 March 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

The Cloud Thief is a gentle fantasy adventure with a big heart. The story begins in Withering-on-the-Sand-Sea, where rain is in such short supply that the town must pay for clouds to be delivered. When Mara discovers that a cloud might also help cure Old Bern, she sets out to...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
08 March 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Zélie Dutta may be able to crush the head of a cobra with a bare heel, lick her elbow and peel a banana with her toes, but for all that she is stuck working as a maid in Paris where all the other servants think she is a witch. She has never fully understood why she has been shipped there from...

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Name: Maria Faithorn
08 March 2024;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

YES! Rex, the dinosaur in disguise, is back! Rex has made it in the human world, and is now a PE teacher! However, not everyone is happy about monsters being involved in society and when all the grumpy pigs... gwinty squids... guinea pigs! go missing at the fair, Rex is the obvious culprit. Bu...

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Name: Sharon Porter
08 March 2024;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

This feisty graphic novel is described as a mission to be the best wizard in the world world in the blurb, and it does not disappoint. There is magic, motorcycles and adventure throughout as Cactus Kid tries to attain his must desired chunk of star rock to complete his wizard training. Little...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
08 March 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Jessica moves around the world with her scientist parents. She finds each move difficult as she has to make new friends and then leave them. This time the family are in South America, in the heart of the rainforest, while her parents research frogs. Jessica meets a local girl, Renata, and they...

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Name: Tracy Parvin
08 March 2024;

Genre: Science Fiction

Have you ever watched a film wishing that you were a part of the action, the hero, the person who saves the town, saves the day, saves the world?  You need wish no more. Welcome to 4Di, the fantastical immersive cinematic technology, technology that (so far) can only be experienced at the Blac...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
08 March 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

Since the death of her parents, Aliyah has lived in Cairo with her grandfather, Geddo. Recently, he has been acting strangely, disappearing for hours on end and forgetting her birthday. When a mysterious gift arrives, things change dramatically. Geddo is taken away and Aliya finds herself whis...

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