Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Louisa Farrow
30 November 2022;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Meet Bridie Sweeney. She's a little match girl, working hard on the streets of Victorian London to help feed her family; she's poor, hungry and cold - but there ends the resemblance to the famous fairy tale character. As she says, match girls weren't all pretty things with with fair curls and...

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Name: Janet Fisher
30 November 2022;

Genre: Supernatural

Lolli is in England with Freya and they have come back to help with the opening of the family house in Spitalfields.  But Lolli does not want to go into the house as she knows it is haunted by a malevolent spirit.  Her strange behaviour and her inability to tell anyone what is happening to her...

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Name: Lucy Newton
29 November 2022;

Genre: Young fiction

Another adventure with Princess Minna. In Princess Minna: The Big Bad Snowy Day, Minna wakes up and sees snow everywhere. She has a snowball fight and builds some dragons but she notices a problem. Her poor grandma can't get out of her house because there is so much snow, so s...

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Name: Jennifer Bevan
28 November 2022;

Genre: Family & Home

This book is about spending time with Grandma in every season. The young child in the story looks excited to go into Grandma's house, just as my own children are when they go to there Grandparents' home. I liked the illustrations and the fun the child and Grandma are having each day. A nice bo...

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Name: Jennifer Bevan
27 November 2022;

Genre: Family & Home

A lovely book telling the story of why an old toy is so special. The Christmas Doll describes how an old toy is taken to The Repair Shop to be fixed. The lady in the story then goes on to explain how she got the doll and why it is so important to her. My daughter and I...

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Name: Ellora Age 11
27 November 2022;

Genre: Science Fiction

Ross Welford is an exceptionally brilliant author with his mind blowing time books and Into The Sideways World is no exception. I read this book in one sitting, so mesmerised with the way he writes. I love how he involved the future and a different world into this book it's am...

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Name: Abi Age 11
27 November 2022;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

It was amazing, perfect for best friends to read at a sleepover at 3am!

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Name: Janet Fisher
25 November 2022;

Genre: Magical Realism

Red the dragon is born into a world where dragons speak and think, communicate and live by an admirable code, faraway from the 'uprights' whom they fear and whom they think have suffered badly from an overheating of the world.  Red is an unusual colour for a dragon and he has an inquiring 'thi...

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Name: Linda Brown
24 November 2022;

Genre: Adventure

Daughter of the Siren Queen is the sequel to Daughter of the Pirate King. Alosa has now accomplished her task her father, the Pirate king, set her in getting the pieces of the map to the Isla de Canta, where the sirens hold a l...

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Name: Elen Green
22 November 2022;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Puddling is a joyful story for young children (2+) about the joys of sploshing in puddles - and knowing just the right time to come home and get warm. Which child doesn't love splashing around in puddles after the rain and Puddling celebrates those moments of joy after...

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