Children Book Reviews

Name: Louisa Farrow
30 November 2022;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Meet Bridie Sweeney. She's a little match girl, working hard on the streets of Victorian London to help feed her family; she's poor, hungry and cold - but there ends the resemblance to the famous fairy tale character. As she says, match girls weren't all pretty things with with fair curls and...

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Name: Janet Fisher
30 November 2022;

Genre: Supernatural

Lolli is in England with Freya and they have come back to help with the opening of the family house in Spitalfields.  But Lolli does not want to go into the house as she knows it is haunted by a malevolent spirit.  Her strange behaviour and her inability to tell anyone what is happening to her...

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Name: Lucy Newton
29 November 2022;

Genre: Young fiction

Another adventure with Princess Minna. In Princess Minna: The Big Bad Snowy Day, Minna wakes up and sees snow everywhere. She has a snowball fight and builds some dragons but she notices a problem. Her poor grandma can't get out of her house because there is so much snow, so s...

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Name: Ellora Age 11
27 November 2022;

Genre: Science Fiction

Ross Welford is an exceptionally brilliant author with his mind blowing time books and Into The Sideways World is no exception. I read this book in one sitting, so mesmerised with the way he writes. I love how he involved the future and a different world into this book it's am...

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Name: Janet Fisher
25 November 2022;

Genre: Magical Realism

Red the dragon is born into a world where dragons speak and think, communicate and live by an admirable code, faraway from the 'uprights' whom they fear and whom they think have suffered badly from an overheating of the world.  Red is an unusual colour for a dragon and he has an inquiring 'thi...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
22 November 2022;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Murder at Snowfall, the latest murder mystery from Fleur Hitchcock, is an exciting middle grade book featuring realistic characters with real life issues in addition to a thrilling sideline in detective work. The atmosphere created by the author is as chilling as the season as...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
22 November 2022;

Genre: Animals

This classic book has been re-released by Little Tiger in a gorgeous 10th anniversary edition. The story is as lovely as it's always been and will delight junior readers, especially during the winter months. It tells the story of Sara, a little girl staying with her grandfather just before Chr...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
19 November 2022;

Genre: Non Fiction

This First Book of Electromagnetism is a fabulously colourful and engaging non-fiction science guide by the brilliant Button Books , who excel at producing bold and very visually appealing non-fiction books that are packed with incredible facts and written and illustrated by e...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
19 November 2022;

Genre: Non Fiction

The Big Book of 100 STEM Activities is such a brilliantly appealing non-fiction book from publisher Button Books. The pairing of Laura Minter and Tia Williams has created a really fun and engaging set of science experiments to entertain and learn from. From a vibrantly illustr...

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Name: Rikayla Age 13
18 November 2022;

Genre: Friendship

I Love the Terri Libenson Series, it is the best book I ever read. I give this book a 5 out of 5 that is how good it is.

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