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Forest of Forbidden Magic: A spooky supernatural adventure of spine-tingling mystery
Name: Margaret Pemberton
12 August 2024;Genre: Supernatural
When Tig and his sister Elsa receive a strange letter and two silver charms from their odd grandfather, they wonder if it is some kind of joke. Then their father hears that his father has died and they all journey to his home to sort out his affairs. However, there is something very strange ab...
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Telling the Time with Anna: First Skills
Name: Maria
12 August 2024;Genre: Early Skills
Telling the Time with Anna is full of clocks and clock hands and is a great way to learn to tell the time with Anna and her Grandpa. Grandpa kindly helps and supports Anna to read the times of the clocks and to understand how the three clock hands work. The book dips into rea...
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One-Button and the Sea
Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 August 2024;Genre: Family & Home
One-Button and the Sea is a story of refugees, uprooted from their homes and travelling across the sea to a new home. Grandpa tells One-Button the tale of how they moved to their new home, reminding him of the journey and how they returned home. Told with few wo...
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Little Guides to Nature: Hello Trees
Name: Jane Rew
09 August 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Glance at the common features of all four books in this series and the librarian/teacher/book-buying parent will soon be persuaded to invest: helpful hardback format suited to taking outdoors; as is their fit into a rucksack pocket; quality paper for durability; Stylish and colourful illustrat...
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Baby's First Cloth Book: Cuddly Bear
Name: Rosie Sutton
08 August 2024;Genre: Baby & Toddler Books
Baby's First Cloth Book: Cuddly Bear is an excellent book for babies and toddlers. The black and white pictures and patterns support their early development as well as the sensory textures placed within the pages, creating crickly sounds. The lift the flap pages create interac...
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What the Crow Saw Below
Name: Amanda Shipton
08 August 2024;Genre: Personal Growth
What the Crow Saw Below is a beautiful story to remind us to look all around us and focus on the joy. Life is often not what it seems and this book demonstrates this beautifully. It is inspirational as the youngest member of the flock is the one to encourage the others to cha...
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Let ME Do It!
Name: Lizi Backhouse
08 August 2024;Genre: Family & Home
Teddy is not a baby anymore but his family still fuss over him so one day he decides to do everything himself - what could go wrong? This is a good concept to explore, and one that families with toddlers in will all relate to... I do have some reservations that some of the content (like cutti...
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Bronte Tempestra and the Ice Warriors
Name: Jenny Caddick
08 August 2024;Genre: Adventure
A light, lively and action-packed adventure story featuring some extreme Princess power! Bronte Tempestra is a princess turned knight-in-training at St Sebastian's School for Squires. It is only the end of the first term but Bronte has already proved herself a fierce force, ha...
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Rosie Raja: Undercover Codebreaker
Name: Hayley Summerfield
07 August 2024;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Sufiya Ahmed has once again brought to life the beloved Muslim heroine Rosie in Rosie Raja: Undercover Codebreaker. This vivid and gripping historical adventure takes us to the heart of WWII control room - Bletchley Park and allows the reader to capture a gli...
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What the Crow Saw Below
Name: Lizi Backhouse
07 August 2024;Genre: Personal Growth
What the Crow Saw Below is a great rhyming book about a curious crow who is tired of looking for dangers below and so instead finds the courage to look up and see what she can discover. The vocabulary in this book is brilliant, it's descriptive and extended, with some c...
