Families Book Reviews

Name: Amanda Shipton
16 February 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Press Start! Super Rabbit Boy Blasts Off! is the fifth book in Thomas Flintham's series cleverly based on children's love of computer games, which is likely to have the young chapter book reader hooked from the start. The scenario of being on a long car journey, eight hours in...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
16 February 2024;

Genre: Picture Books

Vile Virginia and the Curse that Got Worse is an absolute block buster of a picture book. The rhythmical rhyming text guides you through this wonderful tale of what happens when Vile Virginia meets her match in Angelic Julian. Children and adults alike will love the poetic jus...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
16 February 2024;

Genre: Historical Fiction

For Ned, the outbreak of the Second World War and the expansion of undercover operations at Bletchley Park have offered an unexpected escape from a dismal future working in his father's funeral parlour. Suddenly, he and his mother are being sent off to Wales as part of the covert mission to ke...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
16 February 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

Orphan Domino lives with the Science Barons in the Scientarium Celestis, a floating laboratory.  Allergic to magic, she is forced to stay here, tormented by the other children; a complex problem for the Barons to solve. However, when a Science Baron returns and requests Domino as his assistant...

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Name: Safiyya Khan
16 February 2024;

Genre: Social Issues

Hanh used to be a girl who went to school and dreamed of a better future, a future where she would be a fashion designer. Now she is a child laborer working in an illegal clothing factory in Hanoi. Life in the sweatshop is brutal; the hours are long, the rewards are non-existent and the food i...

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Name: Jo Thomas
16 February 2024;

Genre: Funny Stories

The veggies are reading their favourite comic books at night in the supermarket when they find an advertisement for a kit to turn them more bad or good. What follows is a funny tale of role reversal for Supatato and evil pea which leads to some crazy supermarket antics! Supertat...

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Name: Erin Quigley
16 February 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

When We become Ours, an unarguably groundbreaking anthology, contains a wide range of poignant and evocative stories in a variety of genres written about adopted characters by adoptee authors for adoptee readers. The editors, Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung, tell us there is n...

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Name: Lucy Hopkins
15 February 2024;

Genre: Animals

Let's Go Home, Baby Chick is a lovely, interactive book for tiny readers! Throughout the book, there are counters to move along a path which is a great alternative to the usual methods of interactivity (e.g. flaps). There are also some great common, simple words for children t...

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Name: Maria Faithorn
15 February 2024;

Genre: Picture Books

The Best Eid Ever is a fantastic resource, and one of very few available in narrative form for children. It is a great way to teach and raise children's awareness and knowledge of the religious festival of Eid. Through detailed pictures with plenty of colour, and the vocabular...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
15 February 2024;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Stitch Head lives in Castle Grotteskew with his creator, mad scientist Professor Erasmus. As the Professor continues to experiment with increasingly dangerous ingredients, Stitch Head works hard to keep the Professor safe whilst feeling increasingly ignored and abandoned. When a stranger comes...

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