Children Book Reviews

Name: Julie Broadbent
17 August 2023;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

Yassmin Abdel-Magied is an author, a social activist, an engineer and a broadcaster. After visiting young people in schools, she asked them what they wanted to know about racism and social injustice. Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism is the result of the conversations that...

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Name: Donna Ritchie
17 August 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

1940 is where the prologue to The Stolen Songbird begins, where we meet a boy and a girl (no names mentioned - which made it a mysterious beginning). Then a jump to 1959, where we meet a rabbit. The way the author describes this rabbit led me to believe that he had a very impo...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
16 August 2023;

Genre: Family & Home

Lina’s family went to America five years ago, but she stayed behind with her grandmother - until now! At last she’s going to join them! When she arrives, life in America is quite different from the way she imagined it (from watching The Simpsons and from her mother’s letters). At school, it’s...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
14 August 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

In Peanut, Butter & Crackers: River Rescue, the pets are off to the great outdoors in their human's camper van. Everything is going fine until Butter, the indoor cat, realises that their human has not brought a litter tray! There must be one in the forest, right, how else...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
11 August 2023;

Genre: Adventure

A clever adventure fantasy with a strange dystopian future at its heart. It is a story so relevant to our current time; themes of climate change and powerful, society controlling technology make the events seem all the more relatable, thought-provoking and easily imagined. The world has...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
10 August 2023;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism is an ambitious book: it sets out to help make the world a fairer place for everyone by investigating racism. Words from Yasmin Abdul-Magied and pictures from Aleesha Nandra work effectively together to explore three key questions: why rac...

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Name: Janet Fisher
10 August 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Poor Vincent skulks around at school trying not to be noticed or have anyone notice he is alone. But teachers have noticed he seems to have no friends and put him forward for an adventuring weekend away, involving tents and lots of walking! He is joined by Lena who has an ulterior motive for j...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
04 August 2023;

Genre: Funny Stories

A Bigfoot is on the loose! A squirrel wedding! Silent disco party time! Just another day in Grimwood really! Ted, Nancy, Willow and the rest of the Grimwood gang must embark on their greatest adventure yet to save their home from a nasty, thieving stink monster. Grimwood: Attack...

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Name: Jane Rew
04 August 2023;

Genre: Non Fiction

It’s not only geeks and science teachers who will enjoy How To Spaghettify Your Dog, although they surely will. Any child (or adult) who has wondered at the weirdness of the world and puzzled over why things do what they do, or look the way they look, will get sucked in. <...

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Name: Sharon Age 11
04 August 2023;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

In Questions and Answers about Refugees, every single page has lots of questions with the answers underneath the flap. I learned so much just from the first six pages! We have been studying journeys in our geography lessons this term. I'd highly recommend this for anyone aged...

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