Children Book Reviews

Name: Jenny Caddick
15 February 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Tourmaline and the Island of Elsewhere is an absolute delight - a bold adventure story that takes the reader on a perilous journey across the seas to find a secret island which holds the key to all things magical. Tourmaline herself is a brilliantly lively heroine; an impetuou...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
15 February 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Stella Snowflake Pearl is back, along with her friends from her previous adventure with the Polar Bear Explorers Club. But this time it is different and it is very personal. Stella's father Felix has been kidnapped by a giant vulture and taken to Witch Mountain. Stella, with her friends Ethan,...

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Name: Sharon Porter
14 February 2023;

Genre: Animals

This narrative non-fiction text is chock full of facts about the life and trials of the Emperor penguin. The journey begins in an Antarctic April, with winter approaching and leads through the epic journeys these penguins make to breed and feed their youngsters. They are truly awe-inspiring cr...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
14 February 2023;

Genre: Science Fiction

The world in 2425 is a very different place. After a meteor struck the earth, technology has been lost and nature has reclaimed the land. London is now a hellish, flooded wasteland, but a few cities, like Newcastle where Ocean Mooney lives with her Nanny Moo, still stand. When she meets Deucal...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
14 February 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Sunny's favourite video game is Super Rabbit Boy! He loves nothing better than trying to defeat the evil King Viking as he manoeuvres Super Rabbit Boy through the trails and tribulations of Super Rabbit Boy Land. In this first instalment of the new series of books by Thomas Flintham, we join o...

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Name: Sam Phillips
11 February 2023;

Genre: Adventure

What an absolutely cracking read; Pirates of the Caribbean for under 10's! Abigail, the story's main protagonist, is fearless in her search for revenge after pirates attack her home and kill her father. With no one left to stop her Abigail joins her family's slave boy, Boubacar when he reasons...

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Name: Tracy Parvin
10 February 2023;

Genre: Family & Home

It is the night of the Mid-Autumn festival and Peijing is in the kitchen making mooncakes with Ah-Ma (Grandma). In the living room, all of the aunties and uncles are playing what is to be their last game of Mah-jong: the next day, the Guo family will be leaving Singapore to start a new life in...

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Name: Hayley Summerfield
09 February 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum is a brilliantly funny murder mystery story by Alasdair Beckett-King. The new sleuth is humorous and witty and will inspire budding detectives everywhere, as all that is clearly needed is a clever disguise, a fake moustache, a notebook a...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
09 February 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Kyan Green and the Infinity Racers is a fresh, fun, fast paced and modern mind-bending, multi-universe adventure story for readers who like their worlds expanding! Kyan finds a tattered, forgotten and old fashioned racing car game during an unwilling chore cleaning out...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 February 2023;

Genre: Magical Realism

Phyllis (who prefers to be called Phyll) has moved to the countryside, away from all her friends. Her mother is ill with depression and on her first day at summer camp she makes an enemy of Hilda. Phyll is miserable and lonely. On a visit to an old people's home she meets Mr Djinn, who tells h...

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