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Beast Feast
Name: Ellen Green
21 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
What a feast of a delight this book is! Gorgeous, funny and just enough scary for 5-8 year olds. It is also packed with letters so a great way to introduce letter-writing in class. Meet Beast, a bright pink, sharp-toothed hairy monster who is dangling a small boy by the foot. "You are DINNER", sa...
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Ravi's Roar
Name: Judith Greenall
20 October 2019;Genre: Personal Growth
When we meet Ravi in Ravi's Roar, he appears to be a happy-go-lucky boy, running through the pages with his toy aeroplane, his brothers and sister close by. As the siblings are measured in height, we see that he is the smallest in the family. Even the dog, Biscuits, is larger...
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The Wizards and the Whale
Name: Louise Gahan
20 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
The Wizards and the Whale is an important book for our time. 12 wizards receive a message asking for their help to save the world. All very different in nature, skills and culture. The wizards come together in respect of each other but with one sole purpose and that is the belief that together, t...
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5 Wild Shapes
Name: Louise Gahan
20 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
5 Wild Shapes is a lovely interactive book that any young child will enjoy. Its bold colourful pages invite the young reader to explore, read and manipulate the shapes in the books. Each shape relates to an animal and their habitat, encouraging the reader to develop an awareness of shapes in the...
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The Clue is in the Poo
Name: Sam Phillips
20 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
Having made the mistake of handing this book and its partner in crime, A Giant Dose of Gross, over to my small class of Year 4 boys before I had even reviewed them, I can say without hesitation that this book will go down a storm in any school library or class book corner! Anything that talks ab...
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Wayward Son
Name: Lucy Georgeson
14 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after . . . So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best f...
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The Blanket Bears
Name: Annie Everall
14 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
A simple picture book explaining the adoption process but done through telling the story of two small bears alone in the woods with no-one to care for them. Tilly the fox hears they need some help and goes to find them. She takes them to Bailey and Niko, 'foster care bears', who look after them a...
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Fantastic Female Adventurers
Name: Bryony Davies
10 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
Fantastic Female Adventurers in a non fiction text by Lily Dyu consisting of thirteen biographies organised into short chapters. Expertly illustrated by Chellie Carroll, this is a superb read full of incredible and interesting women. The book begins with a world map showing the adventurers' rou...
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The Places I've Cried in Public
Name: Linda Brown
09 October 2019;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Holly Bourne has once again produced a story regarding young adult issues that is at times hard to read, but is emotive and totally honest... The story follows 16 year old Amelie (who is also the narrator of this emotive read) who has recently moved away from all that she knows due to her pare...
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Rabbit and Bear: A Bite in the Night
Name: Emily Beale
08 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
Rabbit and Bear return in another heart warming tale! The events of this story unfold just as bear begins his annual hibernation. Rabbit interrupts his long winter's nap with the news that trees are disappearing from the forest and his burrow is at risk from the flooding. A crunching, munching mo...
