Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Jenny Caddick
03 January 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

Prepare to be whisked away this Winter to the bitterly cold Tundra and the harshest winds, ice and snow. Surviving life is tough and requires the inhabitants of the settlements there to stand together, using skills, stamina and (more importantly) ice magic, to make it through the big Freeze.</...

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Name: Lucy Hopkins
03 January 2025;

Genre: Picture Books

The Bed Book is a rhyming story, which many children love. They enjoy spotting the words that rhyme together and predicting which words may finish different sentences. It's also a lovely book to help to develop children's imaginations by taking them to many weird and wonderful...

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Name: Lucy Hopkins
03 January 2025;

Genre: Early Skills

Richard Scarry's ABC Word Book is an interesting book to help with children's language development. This book goes through the alphabet with lots of interesting little pictures. Within those pictures, different things are labelled using each of the let...

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Name: Jemma Jeffrey
03 January 2025;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

This is the first book in a fabulous new series of stories for young readers who are dipping their toes into chapter books. The Moonlight Mystery Agency: The Birthday Cake Thief caught my daughter's attention immediately. The book itself is a great size, less...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
02 January 2025;

Genre: Myths & Legends

This companion volume to Once Upon a Tune continues to share the joy of music and art, inspiring young readers to explore the world of classical music and the stories it tells. A Symphon...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
02 January 2025;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

In Let the Light In, Leah's in love and woefully naïve; Charlie's an innocent who has got in way over his head, and only Abby is young enough to be relatively unaffected by the turmoil that has followed their father's untimely death. With their mother housebound suffering unsp...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
02 January 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love is another amazing book in Joseph Coelho and friends' brilliant series. The collection of tiny tales will inspire pupils young and old to write their own stories around these themes. At the back of the book there is carefully create...

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Name: Sam
02 January 2025;

Genre: Horror

A brave young female protagonist and an action-packed zombie adventure, what a page turner! The Zombie Project is the debut novel of Alice Nuttall and is a 'must read' for any middle grade reader who loves a thrill, although perhaps not for the faint hearted!<...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
02 January 2025;

Genre: Personal Growth

Square finds his edges and corners hard to deal with. They are always getting bashed and Square is quite miserable. However, he quickly realises that dwelling on his problems is not helpful and by making the best of things, he can be far happier. From this point onwards, every knock and tumble...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
02 January 2025;

Genre: Environment & Nature

If it jiggles just a little, or its home is in the mud, or it wiggles down its middle… oh indeed - it's a bug! Exuberant, energetic and engaging, Boing! A Bouncy Book of Bugs not only offers a collection of 24 poems about insects, but plenty o...

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