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The Best You
Name: Sue Wilsher
19 January 2024;Genre: Personal Growth
People often ask children what they would like to be when they grow up. This lovely book challenges that idea by asking the reader to think about the different values which are important for making each and every one of us the best version of ourselves which we can be: not 'what do you want t...
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This Tale is Forbidden
Name: Clare Wilkins
19 January 2024;Genre: Dystopian
In This Tale is Forbidden, a secluded, cosy cottage and Woods laced with magic provide the suitably fairy tale setting for this story about a wise grandmother and her impulsive granddaughter. Nesta's world is rooted in nature and she loves the forest she is free to roam in, a...
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There's a Tiger on the Train
Name: Amanda Shipton
19 January 2024;Genre: Friends and family
This wonderful collaboration between debut author, Mariesa Dulak, and Rebecca Cobb, illustrator of The Everywhere Bear, is a must-read, modern classic. 'You'll never guess what happened On our trip down to the sea . . . A Tiger in a top hat Came and sat right next to me.' This is the start of...
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Stitch
Name: Jo Clarke
19 January 2024;Genre: Family & Home
Clumsy, excitable and loveable Henry lives in a castle with his friend, Stitch. Both characters are the creations of the professor, who has pieced them together from dead body parts as part of an experiment. When the professor dies, his nephew, Hardacre, arrives, determined to understand and t...
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Shine Like the Stars
Name: Amanda Shipton
19 January 2024;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Shine Like the Stars is a wonderfully written picture book by Anna Wilson, with a beautiful illustration on every page by award-winning Harry Woodgate. The message throughout this book is one of mental health. We are part of the world and we need to work together with i...
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The Shape of Rainbows
Name: Sue Wilsher
19 January 2024;Genre: Poetry
The Shape of Rainbows is packed with wealth of poems which are perfect for sharing and performing, savouring and contemplating. There really is something for everyone to be found in these pages, all accompanied by Will Hughes's witty illustrations. Classes would have gr...
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Beastlands: Race to Frostfall Mountain
Name: Janet Fisher
19 January 2024;Genre: Fantasy
On the island of Ramoa, three young people live in three very separate societies. Kayla lives in Sophiatown where she is a Sky Cadet with her pangron, Faro. He is taken from her after another pangron is stolen. Alethea is a healer carrying on her father's work living in the Blue District, wher...
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Love is in the Little Things
Name: Elen Green
19 January 2024;Genre: Family & Home
Love is in the Little Things is such a charming story that draws on the quiet moments through a young child's day; the 'little things' that remind a child how much they are loved. While love itself is never ending, Big (the bear) reminds Small, the child, that "love is...
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When Creature Met Creature
Name: Amanda Shipton
18 January 2024;Genre: Friends and family
When Creature Met Creature is a powerful picture book about communication and friendship, crafted by the award-winning author-illustrator duo of John Agard and Satoshi Kitamura. Creature-of-No-Words lives a happy life on his own, but one day he gets a feeling like "the chill t...
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Snail in Space
Name: Jemma Jeffrey
18 January 2024;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Gail is not an ordinary snail. She stands out from all the other snails and set her heart on going to space! Snail in Space is a fun, motivating celebration of believing in yourself, which encourages the reader to never give up, and to reach for the stars. From her gra...
