Families Book Reviews

Name: Jen Bevan
25 September 2024;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Reggie Rabbit: The Ghost of Seagull Rock is the second book about Reggie Rabbit and his best friend Pipsquart.  They have a new mystery to solve and another member of their group, Pipsquart's old friend Kai. Together the three friends do all they can to find out if The Ghost O...

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Name: Lauren Beach
25 September 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Look What I Found By The River is a beautifully curated mix of fiction and non-fiction and part of the 'Look What I Found' series by Moira Butterfield and Jesus Verona for the National Trust. The book starts with three friends going for a walk on the ri...

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Name: Elen Green
24 September 2024;

Genre: Friends and family

Children will often have to negotiate their way in friendships, and this lovely story explores the kinds of problems that can arise when each child wants to get their own way. In Not Fair, Bear!, it's playtime, and Bear wants to do things his way until Squirrel gets fed...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
20 September 2024;

Genre: Picture Books

I've only just managed to get Nibbles: The Very Hungry Book Monster back from the children in my school to review it properly. What a hit Nibbles has been with every class! Nibbles: The Very Hungry Book Monster is a simple story of Nibbles the Book Mons...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
18 September 2024;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

The Reggie Rabbit series is the perfect combination of narrative and graphic novel which will keep the young chapter book reader from beginning to end. The Great Carrot Heist has wonderful characters who you will fall in love with; be careful...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
18 September 2024;

Genre: LBGTQ+

Erin and Max are two teenagers at different stages of their gender/identity journeys. For Erin, the changes appear outwardly seamless and accepted but for Max, the struggle continues. Although they used to date, two years have passed when Max unexpectedly asks Erin to accompany him on a road t...

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Name: Bethany Age 14
17 September 2024;

Genre: Horror

I really loved How to Survive a Horror Movie, it is a horror and very thrilling with lots of unexpected twists. As soon as I started reading, the book had its hooks in me and I finished the book that evening. It is very engaging with just the right amount of the supernatural.<...

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Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
17 September 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

Based on Julie Sykes and Linda Chapman's Unicorn Academy chapter books, Under the Fairy Moon is a companion book to the Netflix programmes of the same name, retelling the first episode of the second series. Sapphire Dorm remain central to the adventures however there appears t...

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Name: Joanne Thomas
17 September 2024;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

A gorgeous book following little green the caterpillar as she confronts her worries about change. Her friends have all changed into butterflies and little green will be next, however she's not quite sure how she feels about changing and is worried and scared. She sets out to talk to others abo...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
16 September 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

This edition of Anne of Green Gables is a beautifully illustrated re-telling of the wonderfully classic story of lively, impetuous and charming orphan Anne ( with an 'e' ) Shirley who, despite being a girl and not a boy as expected, is adopted by siblings Matthew and Marilla C...

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