Families Book Reviews

Name: Louise Baker
01 December 2022;

Genre: Personal Growth

How long could you turn a blind eye to the actions of your friends, before speaking up? Teenager James 'Spence' Spencer is coming to the slow realisation that his friends aren't the people he thought they were - and that, by association, he's walking a very dangerous path. After witness...

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Name: Maria
01 December 2022;

Genre: Picture Books

Do you know the story of Santa's childhood? Well this is just the book you need to read to discover what happened to Little Santa! In the North Pole Little Santa lives with his family and life is tough in the cold and in the snow. His family are miserable and decide to...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
01 December 2022;

Genre: Family & Home

The Winter Wish is a beautiful and charming festive tale that really highlights the magic and wonder of Christmas. The story is set around William and his family. They live in a flat above the book shop they own. Because of this, William has grown up in a world of words...some...

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Name: Morgan Harkin
01 December 2022;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

Love in Winter Wonderland is a heart felt read, following the story of two main characters, Trey and Ariel. A family owned bookshop is where this unlikely pair meet. Both disliking each other until the impending closure of Wonderland, the bookshop, slowly their love for one an...

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Name: Linda Brown
01 December 2022;

Genre: Friends and family

Glowrushes has been considered to be an Italian masterpiece by this author and for the very first time has been translated into English. I'm so pleased that this has been done. This is a book that will stay with you long after you have put it down. It will put your emotions on...

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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: Jennifer Bevan
28 November 2022;

Genre: Family & Home

This book is about spending time with Grandma in every season. The young child in the story looks excited to go into Grandma's house, just as my own children are when they go to there Grandparents' home. I liked the illustrations and the fun the child and Grandma are having each day. A nice bo...

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Name: Jennifer Bevan
27 November 2022;

Genre: Family & Home

A lovely book telling the story of why an old toy is so special. The Christmas Doll describes how an old toy is taken to The Repair Shop to be fixed. The lady in the story then goes on to explain how she got the doll and why it is so important to her. My daughter and I...

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