Families Book Reviews

Name: Sue Wilsher
03 January 2025;

Genre: Personal Growth

Every morning, a little snail sets off to follow their Path. Sometimes this path is shared by others; sometimes it is a lonely one; sometimes hard or unexpected. But the snail knows that it is their Path, their unique way forwards and, as long as it feels like the right thing to do, it is thei...

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Name: Lizi Backhouse
03 January 2025;

Genre: Family & Home

Corrie Doon is a Scottish lullaby story that follows Shona from being a small girl tucked in by her dad and having wonderful dreams, to being a grown woman tucking her dad in and experiencing magic in the nights herself. Written by Jackie Kay, an acclaimed Scottish poet...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
03 January 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

Prepare to be whisked away this Winter to the bitterly cold Tundra and the harshest winds, ice and snow. Surviving life is tough and requires the inhabitants of the settlements there to stand together, using skills, stamina and (more importantly) ice magic, to make it through the big Freeze.</...

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Name: Lucy Hopkins
03 January 2025;

Genre: Picture Books

The Bed Book is a rhyming story, which many children love. They enjoy spotting the words that rhyme together and predicting which words may finish different sentences. It's also a lovely book to help to develop children's imaginations by taking them to many weird and wonderful...

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Name: Lucy Hopkins
03 January 2025;

Genre: Early Skills

Richard Scarry's ABC Word Book is an interesting book to help with children's language development. This book goes through the alphabet with lots of interesting little pictures. Within those pictures, different things are labelled using each of the let...

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Name: Jemma Jeffrey
03 January 2025;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

This is the first book in a fabulous new series of stories for young readers who are dipping their toes into chapter books. The Moonlight Mystery Agency: The Birthday Cake Thief caught my daughter's attention immediately. The book itself is a great size, less...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
02 January 2025;

Genre: Myths & Legends

This companion volume to Once Upon a Tune continues to share the joy of music and art, inspiring young readers to explore the world of classical music and the stories it tells. A Symphon...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
02 January 2025;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

In Let the Light In, Leah's in love and woefully naïve; Charlie's an innocent who has got in way over his head, and only Abby is young enough to be relatively unaffected by the turmoil that has followed their father's untimely death. With their mother housebound suffering unsp...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
02 January 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love is another amazing book in Joseph Coelho and friends' brilliant series. The collection of tiny tales will inspire pupils young and old to write their own stories around these themes. At the back of the book there is carefully create...

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Name: Sam
02 January 2025;

Genre: Horror

A brave young female protagonist and an action-packed zombie adventure, what a page turner! The Zombie Project is the debut novel of Alice Nuttall and is a 'must read' for any middle grade reader who loves a thrill, although perhaps not for the faint hearted!<...

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