Families Book Reviews

Name: Ellen Brown
06 March 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This is a simply gorgeous picture book to use in helping young children learn about difference - and that it doesn't matter - without a single word being spoken, tweeted or squeaked... When a family of young owls settles on a branch ready to sleep, they are woken by the arrival of a young family...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
05 March 2017;

Genre: Adventure

The Lotterys are a very happy family, living a unique lifestyle. Having won the lottery, their parents do not have to work, but can devote themselves to family - and community - life. And when your family is composed of four parents, seven children and five pets, that's a really good thing! Nine...

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Name: Carol Williams
03 March 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Mia is the 16 year old middle child of the family.. Her older sister Grace has always done everything just right and is seen (maybe correctly) by Mia as the favourite who can do no wrong. This even seems to be the case when Grace comes home early from her gap year, pregnant. Youngest sister Audre...

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Name: Beth Grant
02 March 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Jasmine is a little girl who loves pigs. Her mum is a vet and one night Jasmine accompanies her Mum to tend a sick animal at a farm. While she is there Jasmine finds a little piglet which is the runt of the litter. Full of love for this piglet she takes it home and nurses it back to health. She n...

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Name: Julie Hill
28 February 2017;

Genre: Adventure

What a simple but entirely clever story from Lane Smith, about a perfect summer day... until. Each spread oozes the sense of summer. Cat is sleeping in the flowerbed, enjoying the sun; Dog is enjoying the cool water in the wading pool; Bird is enjoying some birdseed and Squirrel a corn cob. It wa...

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Name: Alice Bold
28 February 2017;

Genre: Adventure

What an enticing way to explore the different landscapes our world offers, and how humans have left their footprint on it. From the wilds of Antartica to the deserts of Alice Springs and the bustling neighbourhoods of Cairo, this descriptive and evocative book brings the corners of the world to l...

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Name: Marie Berry
27 February 2017;

Genre: Adventure

THe curious case of the missing mammoth is a brilliant story which mixes the fact finding interest of a non fiction book with a interesting story of a journey around a museum. The story tells how Oscar helps Timothy the mammoth to find his baby brother. As they search, they move around the muse...

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Name: June Hughes
27 February 2017;

Genre: Picture Books

This is the story of Anna, her friend Crocodile, and their search for hidden gold. Searching for gold is difficult and dangerous, Crocodile points out, and they will need to be inscrutable, so no one will know what they are up to, and strong, so they can carry away all the gold. Having assured th...

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Name: June Hughes
27 February 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Frog and his friends live a lovely, tranquil life on the banks of the river until Beaver moves into the neighbourhood. Beaver has an ambition to build the biggest dam anyone has ever seen and, in doing so, he causes trouble for Frog and his friends, eventually leaving them homeless. A kind deed f...

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Name: June Hughes
27 February 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This is a delightful book - a simple story of Lazlo trying to deliver a red rose to his beloved at the theatre where she is appearing in a production of Alice in Wonderland. Things do not go smoothly, however, when a mischievous cat, for reasons best known to itself, steals the rose and causes ch...

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