Children Book Reviews

Name: Amanda Shipton
19 September 2023;

Genre: Environment & Nature

The Wild Robot is an incredible story from the award-winning Peter Brown. The attention to detail within the text and images thought this story is incredible. After the boat transporting her sinks and a curious otter presses the button on the back of her neck, Robot Roz opens...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
19 September 2023;

Genre: Environment & Nature

The Wild Robot Escapes is the enchanting illustrated sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot. For all of those who fell in love with Roz and Brightbill whilst reading The Wild Robot, this book will make you to fall in lov...

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Name: Donna Burkert
18 September 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Imagine if there was a place that could gift you a magic hour in your day. Imagine if you could spend that hour doing all the things you never had time for. You could read, play sports, finish your homework, learn a new language...anything! Imagine if you were one of the few who knew about thi...

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Name: Julie Broadbent
18 September 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

In The Secret of the Blood-Red Key, we are reunited with the familiar world of Krasnia and its inhabitants. Our heroes Rachel and Robert Klein have saved the country from the wicked dictator Charles Malstain and peace and order has now been restored. They are rightly now recog...

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Name: Lily Age 12
18 September 2023;

Genre: Science Fiction

Amazing book, I read it at school and it is such an exciting adventure. The author describes the setting and the characters really well!

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Name: Sue Wilsher
15 September 2023;

Genre: Poetry

Once again, Joshua Seigal offers a cornucopia of poetic treats in his new collection, Who Let the Words Out?. With poems about cats putting their rear ends in your face, a mathematical haiku, what NEVER to do and the problems of precipitation, there is plenty to set the reader...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
15 September 2023;

Genre: Environment & Nature

This perfectly timed launch brings us the next in the wonderful Tindims series written by a talented mother and daughter duo.  In The Tindims of Rubbish Island and the Spooky Secret, Halloween has nearly arrived but a young witch is in a pickle. She has cast a spell and shrunk...

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Name: Clair Bossons
15 September 2023;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Katherine Rondell's Impossible Creatures is a stunning book! The endpapers are illustrated with a map of The Archipelago, a secret cluster of islands where all the mythological creatures live side by side with humans. This is followed by The Guardian's Bestiary; a wonderful il...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
15 September 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Christopher Forrester has been sent to Scotland to spend time with his grandfather, Frank, and is dismayed to find himself in the middle of nowhere in a run-down house with no internet or phone signal. He is told that he can go anywhere, but is forbidden to go to the top of the nearby hill. Of...

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Name: maria faithorn
15 September 2023;

Genre: Poetry

This well written and beautifully illustrated book will definitely be a child’s favourite and be read over and over! A First Book of Dinosaurs is divided into the chapters of 'Meet the Dinosaurs, Eat or be Eaten, Dinosaur Families and The End. OR is it?' Each dinosaur or theme...

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