Children Book Reviews

Name: Amanda Shipton
02 February 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Calling all computer-loving pupils, Thomas has written your next must-read book! This wonderful early chapter book is filled with colourful, action packed pictures, illustrating this simply told action adventure. Sammy's favourite video game is Super Rabbit Boy! He loves trying to stop...

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Name: Janet Fisher
02 February 2023;

Genre: Friends and family

This is the sequel to The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh which I also reviewed for Reading Zone. It follows schoolboy Billy Plimpton's 'career' as a stand-up comedian, despite his stammer. At a festival Billy meets Leo Leggett who appears to b...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
02 February 2023;

Genre: Poetry

My Heart is a Poem is a wonderful collection of poems, carefully selected to explore feelings and emotions. From happiness to misery, from excitement to anger, the poems here give voice to a wealth of emotions, sharing the experiences of others to help the reader make sense of...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
30 January 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Welcome to a world of Marvellers at the Arcanium Training Institute where young Marvellers and their unique powers across the globe attend school to learn and hone their special magical and mystical inherited talents . From a world within and beyond the clouds, the Institute majestically stand...

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Name: Hayley Summerfield
30 January 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

MA Bennett is back with the next book in The Butterfly Club series: The Mummy's Curse (The Butterfly Club, book 2). This time-travelling adventure takes readers from London in 1894 forward in time to Egypt in 1922. It is such an enthralling read, you will not be able to put it...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
28 January 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Erin and Rockhammer is the sixth book in the Dragon Storm series and it is the best one yet!! Each story follows a Dragonseer (someone who can summon a dragon) and this story follows Erin, a foster child with some amazing fighting skills and mega bravery. The...

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Name: Nathan Cox
27 January 2023;

Genre: Friends and family

I knew this would be another great read after reading The Lightning Catcher. The Storm Swimmer by Clare Weze is a brilliant, imaginative adventure story with easily relatable themes, characters and settings. Clare always manages to d...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
21 January 2023;

Genre: Poetry

Selfies With Komodos is a fab little book of new poems from the well-known poet Brian Moses. There are poems about dogs and cats, mythical creatures, journeys on night trains and vampire facials! A very eclectic mix, but one that works around a collective theme of imagination....

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Name: Sam Phillips
20 January 2023;

Genre: Funny Stories

There's a Beast in the Basement is another fab laugh-out-loud book by Pamela Butchart. Once again Izzy and her friends are on the road to adventure after overhearing their Headteacher, Mr Graves, talking about 'missing treasure'. Mr Graves is certainly behaving strangely and t...

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Name: Sharon Porter
17 January 2023;

Genre: Non Fiction

Snot, Sneezes and Super-spreaders has everything a young person might want to know about viruses including how they replicate, spread and infect their hosts. The chapter about AIDS is definitely more suited to those in high school or the very mature Year 6 child (ages 10+), so...

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