Families Book Reviews

Name: Kyle Matravers
30 June 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Rex the Rhinoceros Beetle is a bright and vibrant picture book with an important underlying message. The story focuses on two rhinoceros beetles called Rex and Buster. Buster has found a banana on the jungle floor but he soon spins an exciting tale of how he acquired the fruit...

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Name: Nicki Cleveland
29 June 2020;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Princess Grace knows how lucky she is to be living in Wondermere Castle, but that doesn't stop her resenting the rules - all 947 of them - especially the ones that say she can't play troll-o, be a knight or have ice-cream for breakfast. The rules are there to keep the dragons nesting in the ca...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
28 June 2020;

Genre: Bereavement

This is the sweet tale of a little girl in her Nana's garden, discovering it for the first time and learning how to look after it and why it is so big and messy!  The story shifts in time and the girl loses her Nana and moves in, to look after the garden and eventually take it over with her ow...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
26 June 2020;

Genre: Family & Home

Jane Chapman has created something truly beautiful in her new picture book, Together. The book is one of very few words but they have been delicately selected to deliver a power and moving message of togetherness, compassion and connection.The book starts against t...

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Name: Lucy Newton
25 June 2020;

Genre: Family & Home

This is a nice picture book about a small rabbit. Mini-Rabbit is very keen to help his mother by posting a letter. As he heads into town to get to the post box, he faces many problems including smearing cake over the address and dropping it into the river. As he comes to the realisation that h...

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Name: Bryony Davies
25 June 2020;

Genre: Non Fiction

What the Dinosaurs Saw: Life on Earth Before Humans is am ambitious book covering billions of years of prehistory. Beginning with the Big Bang, the book covers life on earth until early humans. Cleverly designed with a timeline running along the bottom of each page, this is go...

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Name: Ellen Green
25 June 2020;

Genre: Personal Growth

Nervous Nigel is a lovely picture book that carries an important message for children - and adults - alike; that children shouldn't be afraid to talk about how they really feel, and that as adults, we should be better listeners.Nigel, a young crocodile, is surround...

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Name: Elen Green
25 June 2020;

Genre: Friends and family

I loved the first Switch Up book by Katy Cannon, where two teenage girls, who look very similar, meet at an airport and decide to swap their lives for the summer. What could possibly go wrong?The second book, Switch Up: L.A. Exchange, sees the girls - Willa and Alice - on holiday t...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
24 June 2020;

Genre: School Stories

When Jake wants to go to school, his pirate family are horrified and fill his head with thoughts of rotten rules and ten-legged teachers. As far as they believe, pirates don't go to school. But Jake is not to be deterred and convinces his family , through a very traditional pirate method, that h...

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Name: Lucy Newton
23 June 2020;

Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction

This is a story about lots of different animals and their life at Hotel Flamingo. Anna works alongside lots of different animals on Animal Boulevard; they spend their time trying to come up with a plan to get the hotel busier again after the long winter. Luckily for them, Madame Le Pig (the ho...

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