Children Book Reviews

Name: Donna Burkert
10 January 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Pip Ruskin is embarrassed by his parents. It isn't just the wacky way they dress, or the fact that they never watch TV, or the way his mum makes him the smelliest lunches ever known, they are just different. Then, to make matters worse, they decide to up sticks and move their life to the dark...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
09 January 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Bramble and her sister, Lena, have recently lost their parents and now live with their grandfather, helping out in his shop, 'Mr Browning’s Emporium of Strange and Magical Things'. Left in charge, she and her best friend, Ernest, who lives next door with his mother at the dressmaker's shop, di...

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Name: Jane Rew
08 January 2024;

Genre: Non Fiction

There is much to recommend the British Museum's Roman Soldiers: Discover the world of the ancient Roman army. The subject of Romans features widely on the school curriculum and seems endlessly fascinating; the quirky illustrations designed to make people happy; the clear font...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
08 January 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

Stitch and his friend, Henry Oaf, were created by the genius Professor Hardacre, and live in his castle. Stitch is gentle; Henry is large and cannot control his strength. When the Professor dies, his evil nephew, Giles, comes to take over the laboratory. Giles wants to continue his uncle's wor...

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Name: Liya Age 11
05 January 2024;

Genre: Historical Fiction

I really liked this book, I found it very interesting and historical, learning about what happened in those times and how many Jewish people died.

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Name: Sue Wilsher
02 January 2024;

Genre: Science Fiction

Al Chaudhury has successfully travelled back in time and saved his father's life. So, everything is back to the way Al thinks it should be…only somehow it isn't. And then an accident leaves Grandpa Byron struggling to remember things, forcing Al to travel in time once more, leaving someone tra...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
01 January 2024;

Genre: Science Fiction

If you've read the wonderful Time Travelling with a Hamster, you'll be excited to hear about this inventive and light-hearted sequel in which Al(Bert Einstein) Chaudhury returns for more adventures with parallel worlds. In Tim...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
01 January 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

The successful team behind the Unicorn Academy series have done it again! Amber and Flash is the newest, exciting, addition to the Mermaid Academy series. In this story set in Mermaid Academy, a magical school where mermaids are paired with their very o...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
15 December 2023;

Genre: Early Skills

I love the Super Questers books! The Case of the Great Energy Robbery is the third one in the series which focuses on the kids quest to power a model plane. An engineer has told them a bit about biofuels so they search their garden for sources of renewable energy. The reader i...

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Name: Ben Age 12
12 December 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Very good, I love it.

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