Families Book Reviews

Name: Alice Short
10 July 2017;

Genre: Adventure

I loved this take on the story of the Three Little Pigs, in which we follow three little pugs and a very bad cat. There is so much detail and humour in the illustrations, and we really get a sense of each of the characters. When the three pugs are told to go and build their own homes, they set o...

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Name: Helen Fox
10 July 2017;

Genre: Adventure

A lovely picture book to use with preschool and early years childen when exploring building and construction as the rhyming verse makes it a good read-aloud with younger children, while there is enough detail in the text and images to explore more around the subject of construction with early yea...

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Name: Helen Fox
10 July 2017;

Genre: Adventure

It isn't always easy to encourage young children to share so this is a great story to read aloud when children are struggling with the idea of sharing and / or playing together. It's also beautifully illustrated with slightly retro-style, bright images that will catch children's attention. Rub...

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Name: Alex Young
10 July 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Imagine if the fairy tale characters - Goldilocks, the three little pigs, Jack from the beanstalk and the troll in the Three Billy Goats Gruff - needed to tend to the animals that have a role in each of their stories? How tricky might they be to look after? When Bob, who is broke, decides to set...

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Name: Alice Short
10 July 2017;

Genre: Adventure

When she moves across the States to live with her dad, Bailey has a plan - to seek out the boy she's been chatting with, and falling a bit in love with, online. The only problem? She doesn't know his real name, nor what he looks like. While she finds her feet and gets to grips with her summer job...

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Name: Jayne Gould
07 July 2017;

Genre: Adventure

There is definitely no dragon in this story! He has gone off in a huff because he doesn't want to capture icky, frilly princesses today or fight brave, shiny knights. This dragon wants to find a story where he can be the hero for a change! But it proves a little difficult when everybody he app...

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Name: Linda brown
05 July 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Wow, what a debut novel. This book is a rollercoaster of a story. It had me gripped right from the start. The story tells of a young girl called Scarlett who dreams of witnessing a week-long magical performance called Caraval. However, Scarlett has never left the tiny isle of Trisda where she suf...

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Name: Marie Berry
03 July 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Big Brown Bear's Cave is a lovely picture book. It tells the story of Brown bear who finds a new cave and can't make it feel like home. So he goes out to find 'stuff' to put in his cave. He stumbles across a human street and notices their caves (also known as sheds) are full of stuff so he dec...

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Name: Tanjina Age 9
03 July 2017;

Genre: Humour

I liked the bit when Bobby used his hyena hand and feet to jump the highest for the Sport's Day competition and the boy Kyle, who was a show-off, got embarrassed. Well done to Julian Clary for putting a lot of description in to paint a picture in the reader's head. My favourite character is Mrs...

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Name: Alison Ustun
03 July 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This is a moving story about a boy and his family; each alone in their own world. Adam is a gifted artist who finds it hard to express his feelings and talk to others at school, so he keeps a diary full of sketches and poems and sprays graffiti under the protection of the local gang. Following...

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