Families Book Reviews

Name: Joanna Hewish
29 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

A beautiful story of the friendship between a baby and her companion. All parents will delight in this tale of a baby who plays a game of hide and seek with her dog - Buster. The rhythmical narrative allows this tale be read with excitement as the baby chases the dog around house - 'Go Buster,...

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Name: Lucy Newton
28 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

A book filled with very detailed and busy illustrations of adventures with Wilfred and Olbert. They are wildlife explorers who are looking for new and exciting species. Every page is filled with a different environment to explore with fascinating animals, mind-boggling puzzles and activities to h...

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Name: Lucy Newton
28 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This story is filled with pictures of beautiful landscapes and lovely cartoon animals. It has relatively simple text while giving interesting information about a range of animals, climates and landscapes from different environments across the world. It is a lovely book for children to begin to ex...

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Name: Lucy Newton
28 August 2017;

Genre: Humour

A fantastically colourful book! Nibbles: The Dinosaur Guide follows Nibbles, a book eating 'monster', as he comes across a range of other similar creatures on his travels. Nibbles is responsible for lots of different holes that begin to appear throughout the book - he just can...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
26 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

'Change the Shape' is a book that certainly makes you think. I found myself lost within its instructions, determined to complete each challenge set for me. I could certainly see this book being enjoyed by individuals buy also by a whole class. In school, this book can be used for many reason...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
26 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

'Find the Wolf' is another great 'peek through' book by Agnese Baruzzi. Being a board book, it easily withstood the initial browsing by my one year son and I can see this book being revisited when he is slightly older as there are many levels to it. The book follows the pattern of looking for...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
26 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Hidden Animals is a lovely board book that would be perfect for any first book collection. The combination of colours, shapes and animals make this book both an enjoyable read but also an educational one. As the reader, it was easy to follow the pattern of 'Now you see / Then you see ...' and...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
25 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Crododali introduces himself as 'the greatest artist in the whole wide world' and requires your help to make a masterpiece! This picture book talks directly to the reader, asking you to interact with the pages by tilting, shaking and blowing the book. As you turn each page, you see what your...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
25 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

What an absolute joy to read! This fantastic picture book tells the tale of one little girls battle to try and not eat a cake....one that doesn't go too well... Philip's story is funny and has a simple rhyme scheme which makes it fun to read. Funny for both adults and children, the little gi...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
25 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

The Little People, Big Dreams series is a selection of charming books that tell the stories of outstanding people, from artists to scientists. Each story begins with the person as a child with a dream (hence the title of the series!) and this one tells about the life of Emmeline Pankhurst. The...

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