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  • The No-Dig Children's Gardening Book

    No-Dig Children's Gardening Book

    Name: Sharon Porter
    28 February 2023;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    When we first looked at the No-Dig Children's Gardening Book, we wondered how we could garden without digging? However, a quick read of the blurb put us right. This non-fiction book is full of double page spreads covering all sorts of techniques to help preserve the integrity...

  • Can You Get Rainbows in Space?: A Colourful Compendium of Space and Science

    Can You Get Rainbows in Space

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    27 February 2023;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Can You Get Rainbows in Space is a beautifully bright and scientific non-fiction epic book with all you ever wanted to know about light and colour, explaining just how we get to view the world in so many glorious shades. It is a delightfully bold and eye catching hardback and...

  • The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair

    The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    27 February 2023;

    Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

    The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair is a powerfully written dual narrative story that follows the lives and emotional journeys of several members of the same family, several generations apart. It is a story that explores mental health in the most unique and moving manner throu...

  • The Wishkeeper's Apprentice

    The Wishkeeper's Apprentice

    Name: Nicola Mansfield
    26 February 2023;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    I have to say, I am so incredibly sad to have finished this book. The Wishkeeper's Apprentice is beautiful, heartwarming and a book that is definitely needed in the world at the minute. The book focuses on the life of the main character, Felix Jones, who makes a wish one day i...

  • Swimming on the Moon

    Swimming on the Moon

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    26 February 2023;

    Genre: Family & Home

    Anna remembers happy holidays with her family in the past and dreams about more in the future. But, right now, there is the much more awkward present to negotiate. Her parents seem to be arguing constantly and when she and her twin, Anto, eavesdrop at the top of the stairs, Anna's worries only...

  • The Wishkeeper's Apprentice

    The Wishkeeper's Apprentice

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    26 February 2023;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    I thoroughly enjoyed this warm hearted, charming and delightfully illustrated magical story for younger readers. The wonderfully named Rupus Beewinkle is the elderly Wishkeeper of Whittlestone and keeping up with the ever-growing list of wishes is exhausting and endless. 'Wish snags' (where wi...

  • Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories

    Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    24 February 2023;

    Genre: Friends and family

    When two best friends experience different adventures with the purpose of making each other happy it can only lead to beautiful discoveries about themselves. This is what Jarvis has created through these three simply beautiful stories. In Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stor...

  • Woodwitch: The magical adventure continues! (Hedgewitch Book 2)

    Woodwitch

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    24 February 2023;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cassie has settled into life in the village of Hedgely. Her broomstick riding is improving and has found loyal friends in Rue and Tabitha, fellow members of Oak Patrol at her school. As Hallowe'en approaches, some of the villagers start behaving strangely, possessed with the need to locate a m...

  • Momo Arashima Steals the Sword of the Wind

    Momo Arashima Steals The Sword of the Wind

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    23 February 2023;

    Genre: Fantasy

    At the start of Momo Arashima Steals The Sword of the Wind, we meet Momo who lives with, and cares for, her mother in California. She is a loner, and her teachers say she has an overactive imagination. Coming from a Japanese family, Momo has always loved the stories of ancient...

  • Vita & the Gladiator

    Vita and the Gladiator

    Name: Donna Burkert
    23 February 2023;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Vita lives a privileged life. Her father is a senior magistrate, and she has everything she could possibly want. But it's not enough for Vita. She loves to write and has a dream to see her plays and stories acted out in the streets of Londinium but as the daughter of a high-born, her only futu...