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No Fixed Address
Name: Tanja Jennings
03 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Susin Nielsen is adept at blending light and dark to create believable, quirky and multi-faceted characters who just need friendship, kindness and understanding to make their lives brighter. No Fixed Address is set in Vancouver and reflects the sad fact that rental units are expensive and scarc...
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Iguana Boy vs. The 30 second thief
Name: Leia Sands
03 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
The second installment in the Iguana Boy series, doesn't disappoint. Dylan, a boy whose superpower is the ability to talk to iguanas, has now joined the Superhero Collective and is starting his first day at HQ. Dylan, along with his team of trusty iguanas, Paul, Pauline, Smelly Paul and Red ey...
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How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear
Name: M. Hardy
02 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
A pupil in my class, who is an animal nut, absolutely ADORED this book! The presentation and organisation of the book engages readers well making it easy to navigate, with short paragraphs of information. Character illustrations are representative and inclusive making them relatable to readers...
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Power To The Princess
Name: M. Hardy
02 October 2018;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
These are fairytales with a really positive twist! The princesses are not the traditional passive characters, where adventure happens around them. In this book, they are adventurous, practical and independent. They give readers a really great message and I would heavily recommend reading these w...
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Power To The Princess
Name: Ellie Age 10
02 October 2018;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
The physical book has a really nice feel to it and the pages are easy to flip. The front cover has a lot of textures which I really love, Vita makes me happy with the way she magpies from traditional stories and makes them her own. I would recommend this book to adventurous people who want to...
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Secrets of a Sun King
Name: Janet Fisher
02 October 2018;Genre: Historical Fiction
I was lucky enough to review Emma Carroll's first book, Frost Hollow Hall, in 2013, which was a very good debut and was delighted to find that this, her seventh book, does not disappoint. The story of the boy King Tutankhamun, whose tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922, has always fasc...
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The Bear, the Piano, the Dog and the Fiddle
Name: Nikki Stiles
01 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
This is an endearing follow up to The Bear and the Piano and as expected, every bit as beautiful as the award winning The Bear and the Piano. I find with David Litchfield's stunning picture books there is always sensitivity and care given to those characters who need it most. His stories are hear...
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The Only way is Badger
Name: Nikki Stiles
01 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
This is a sassy story about a brazen badger who has decided that he is quite obviously the better species and all of his woodland friends should do their upmost to be more like him; they need to 'make an effort to be more badger!' The woodland creatures get their first dose of badger's tyrant b...
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You Can't Let an Elephant Drive a Digger
Name: Lauren Maidman
01 October 2018;Genre: Picture Books
Have you ever wondered why Elephants can't drive diggers or why you shouldn't let polar bears cut your hair? Well this book will tell you all the reasons why! However much we would like some of these animals as pets they all come with a precaution and we shouldn't let them do certain things. Yo...
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How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear
Name: Catherine Purcell
01 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
How to help a hedgehog AND protect a polar bear? I'm all ears, tell me more! Published by Nosy Crow in collaboration with the National Trust, Jess French's book is perfect for KS1 and KS2 children describing as it does 12 of the major habitats in the world. Each habitat, for example heathland...
