Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Jen Bevan
03 May 2024;

Genre: Environment

Benji's Emerald King (The Woodland Explorers) is fully immersed in nature. All the additional details about tree etc would really engage children's imagination. A book for those who are exploring the world around them. I will be using this book with my Year 1 children (...

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Name: Jessica Bunney
03 May 2024;

Genre: Friends and family

Marianna Coppo's books are extremely creative and quite frankly different from any other author I've ever encountered, so I couldn't wait to get stuck into her newest title, The Best Bad Day Ever. This book is about the power of mindset and perceptions and The Best Bad Day Eve...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
03 May 2024;

Genre: Magical Realism

An eerie and creepily sinister fantasy adventure that roots its story in fairy folklore and tales of magical dark deeds, and their consequences. In a heart-wrenching storyline, a family try to come to terms with devastating grief and loss and take the first steps to construct a new but broken...

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Name: Ayva Age 14
03 May 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Best book ever!!!

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Name: Ruth Cornish
03 May 2024;

Genre: Bullying

Like A Girl is a book about resilience, revenge and running. Eden McCoy, the protagonist of this 'real life' fiction genre, lives her school life as much as possible in the shadows so she can stay off the 'Glossies' radar. The leader of the Glossies group, Bea Miller, used to...

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Name: Elen Green
03 May 2024;

Genre: Magical Realism

Alyssa and the Spell Garden takes an ordinary part of North London and brings magic into it, by way of a 'spell garden'; a magical place that helps keep the community safe and hidden from the gentrification that has befallen many neighbouring high streets in the city. A...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
02 May 2024;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Happy Hills - Attack of the Giant Danger Kittens is the first in Sophie Henn's new series. The full-page illustrations, comic-strip sequences and quirky typography ensure that the fast-paced humour runs throughout. The blocky, brightly coloured illustrations will appeal to the...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
02 May 2024;

Genre: Animals

Gill Lewis is a skilled author who specialises in creating gentle and heart-warming stories with an incredibly strong message and The Island Vet is no different. As a lover of nature, she leaves her readers with a sense of responsibility for taking care of our world. Th...

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Name: Jane Rew
02 May 2024;

Genre: Non Fiction

A quick look at the Contents page of Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong! is immediately intriguing: surely identical twins are identical, and don't fingernails continue to grow after we die? Even by page 6, where the first myth is outlined, my misconceptions are...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
02 May 2024;

Genre: Dystopian

The much anticipated follow up to Happy Head does not disappoint! I was delighted to review Dead Happy, which continues the story of Sebastian and the other youngsters trapped in a wellbeing facility. We rejoin Manning, the maniacal director of...

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