Families Book Reviews

Name: Linda Brown
27 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

This is the sequel to Sea Witch, and picks up Evie's story 50 years later. Evie is now the feared Sea Witch and has been imprisoned by the Sea King as he is afraid of what she can do. The Sea King is angry, as he has now lost two daughters, Annemette and Alia. He cannot destroy Evie as she is the...

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Name: Daniel Katz
25 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

The Vlogger's Handbook is a fun, eye-catching and useful guide to creating your own vlog. The book covers the whole process from pre- to post-production, including generating ideas, finding your voice, planning, online safety, equipment, camera techniques, lighting, audio, editing and promotion....

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Name: Jess Locke
25 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Wow! Garvie Smith is an unusual teen protaganist; lazy, sarcastic, into smoking and hanging about with his mates at his local park. He is also ferociously intelligent with a high IQ, which comes in handy when he is compelled to solve the mystery of a murdered local school girl. This story will...

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Name: James Hewish
24 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Laugh-out-loud funny, original and highly entertaining. Baby's First Jailbreak appeals to a range of ages with its delightful and detailed illustrations accompanying a very humorous narrative that children will delight in returning to again and again. The story, by Jim Whaley, tells the tale of...

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Name: James Hewish
24 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

A boy and his cat, Ginger, have a bedtime secret: when baddies are out the boy becomes Midnight Ninja! Go, midnight ninja, go! An action-packed picture book written and illustrated by Sam Lloyd that is told in an engaging, comic-book style. It kept my five-year-old entertained throughout and ins...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
22 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Max desperately wants a new pet but his parents are far from sure that its a good idea. Puppy? They chew too much. Parrot? They talk too much. Shark? They bite too much! How about a Dragon? Well obviously Max's parents are right when they say that they do't exist .... aren't they? Running...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
22 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Ben Manley has created a wonderfully structured story in the form of The Misadventures of Frederick. From the title alone, readers are lured into a realm of thinking around what these misadventures could be. The story opens on an illustration of a boy sat alone on a bed, gazing towards an open...

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Name: James Hewish
22 October 2019;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

The illustrations are beautiful! This book has so many meanings, hidden messages, and themes: friendship, love of reading, love, loneliness, being misjudged and facing your fears all feature within this picture book. However, the overriding message is that of not judging a book by its cover. T...

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Name: Ellen Green
21 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

What a treat to find a new picture book by Debi Gliori, and The Bookworm really is a treat, bringing as it does Gliori's masterful touch with relationships, childhood desires and the unexpected - and not forgetting her gorgeous illustrations with lots of humorous touches! In the story, Max wan...

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Name: Janet Fisher
21 October 2019;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Set in the Somerset Levels in 1616, and based on the actual event of a tsunami in January 1607, Emma Carroll's The Somerset Tsunami tells of a girl, named Fortune, living in a village of women but for one male, her brother Jem. But these are difficult times and the Protestants...

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