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  • Imperfectly Perfect

    Imperfectly Perfect

    Name: Maria
    15 September 2023;

    Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

    Imperfectly Perfect explores an important theme that not every thing is perfect and sometimes accidents happen, but objects can be repaired - just like friendships. Maria loves reading and unfortunately damages her brother's favourite book. Robbie returns and shouts at...

  • Impossible Creatures

    Impossible Creatures

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    15 September 2023;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Christopher Forrester has been sent to Scotland to spend time with his grandfather, Frank, and is dismayed to find himself in the middle of nowhere in a run-down house with no internet or phone signal. He is told that he can go anywhere, but is forbidden to go to the top of the nearby hill. Of...

  • A First Book of Dinosaurs

    A first book of Dinosaurs

    Name: maria faithorn
    15 September 2023;

    Genre: Poetry

    This well written and beautifully illustrated book will definitely be a child’s favourite and be read over and over! A First Book of Dinosaurs is divided into the chapters of 'Meet the Dinosaurs, Eat or be Eaten, Dinosaur Families and The End. OR is it?' Each dinosaur or theme...

  • Jane Foster's Baby's First Stories: 0-3 months: Look and Listen with Baby

    Jane Foster's Baby's First Stories: 0-3 months: Look and Listen with Baby

    Name: Catherine Kus
    15 September 2023;

    Genre: Baby & Toddler Books

    This book is a hardback book for babies aged 0-3 months. Experts believe that babies see in black, white and grey during the first four months of their life and the illustrations in this book have been created in these colours only. The pictures are really bold and clear with repeating pattern...

  • The Secret of the Blood-Red Key

    The Secret of the Blood-Red Key

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    14 September 2023;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Robert and Rachel Klein have defeated the villainous Charles Malstain; the land of Krasnia and its capital city, Brava, are now full of joy, colour and happy citizens, and Rachel and Robert are national heroes. Then a boy appears from nowhere and presents Rachel with a blood-red key. She has n...

  • Mermedusa  (An Eerie-on-Sea Adventure)

    Mermedusa (An Eerie-on-Sea Adventure)

    Name: Wendy Kelly
    13 September 2023;

    Genre: Adventure

    So here it is! We've reached the end of Herbie and Violet's winter shenanigans with the explosive story of the Mermedusa. Those devoted readers who have followed all their other adventures will find many loose ends pleasingly tied up in their final (perhaps?) adventure. Thomas...

  • Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future: People Power series

    Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future: People Power series

    Name: Stephen Leitch
    13 September 2023;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future gives a fascinating insight into inventors and their inventions that are having an impact on millions of lives throughout the world today. Many were unknown to me - both inventor and invention - and that's what made this a really...

  • Marv and the Dino Attack: from the multi-award nominated Marv series

    Marv and the Dino Attack

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    12 September 2023;

    Genre: Adventure

    Marvin, a secret superhero with a robot sidekick named Pixel, is super excited because he's going on a school trip to the Natural History Museum to see some REAL dinosaur bones. Marvin and Joe can't wait to see all those dinosaur skeletons up close, but they get more than they bargained for wh...

  • Woodland Magic 2: Deer in Danger

    Woodland Magic 2: Deer in Danger

    Name: Jen Bevan
    11 September 2023;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    I have rated this book 5+ as I think children of this age will enjoy listening to the book. I think the book is perfect for 7+ children to read independently. I love the new Woodland Magic series. I was keen to find out what adventures Cora, Jax and their friends would...

  • And I Climbed, And I Climbed

    And I Climbed, And I Climbed

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    11 September 2023;

    Genre: Poetry

    And I Climbed and I Climbed is a remarkable collection of poems, focusing on Cosmo, a young boy whose life changed forever when he fell out of a tree in his garden.  Having a great deal to come to terms with, these poems explore his experiences.  Poet, Simon Lightbrown has dra...