Families Book Reviews

Name: Clare Wilkins
08 May 2017;

Genre: Adventure

After her mother's death, a distraught Lemonade Liberty Witt is sent to live with her grandfather in the rural backwater of Willow Creek. And after the thriving metropolitan bustle of San Francisco she finds her new, reduced circumstances somewhat difficult to adjust to. Befriended by the annoyi...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
06 May 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This inspiring book introduces the reader to The British Library and to some of the greatest treasures kept there. It's a fabulous celebration of libraries and their importance. Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom are well known for their skill at presenting information and illustration in a way whi...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
06 May 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Joyce Dunbar has created a lovely book based on what is said to be a real cat: Tibs. The story is set in the 1950s, an age where the post was sorted by hand and many, many letters were handled each day. Tibs comes from a long line of famous Post Office cats and his day has come to rid the Post...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
06 May 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Grandad's Secret Giant is a fabulous book written by the same author who brought us The Bear and the Piano. Billy, our main character, doesn't believe his loving Grandad when he tells him that there is a giant living in town, doing good deeds for all the residents of Gableview. Despite several...

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Name: Jayne Gould
06 May 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Goldenhand is the very welcome return to the world of the Old Kingdom, continuing the story of Lirael, former Second Assistant Librarian, now Abhorsen-in-Waiting. This new and rather unexpected role means that she has dead creatures to battle and dangerous Free Magic entities to bind. Saving Nic...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
06 May 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This exciting guide to the human body is beautifully presented and fully of fascinating facts! Divided into clear sections, each dealing with a different topic - e.g. Heart and Blood, Waterworks - this is such an easy to navigate, clearly laid out book. Each of the nine key chapters is sub-divide...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
03 May 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Growing up 'mean and hard' in a city where nothing grew and everything was broken, a young thief snatches a handbag from an old lady - an easy victim - who won't let go until the thief has made her a promise. With no intention of keeping her word, the thief promises and discovers that the bag is...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
02 May 2017;

Genre: Adventure

A P Winter's debut novel is a charming and fantastical tale about long-hidden magic and the extraordinary adventure that unfolds when a naive schoolboy unleashes its extraordinary powers. Bert's hum-drum existence spins dangerously out-of-control when a school trip to a new museum opens a doorwa...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
01 May 2017;

Genre: Adventure

The tagline for this book is 'A rhyming, pop-up adventure!' Which caught my attention straight away. This book allows you to discover a host of desert animals as the little fennec fox wonders through the landscape looking for a friend to play with. Written in the first person, it allows you to...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
01 May 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Bear in a Square is the second in the series of books written by Amelie Faliere. This book follows the idea of introducing shapes to children through the use of animals. Each shape has an animal posing in that shape e.g. A bear in the shape of a square, a hamster in the shape of a circle and a p...

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