Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Daniel Katz
25 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

The Vlogger's Handbook is a fun, eye-catching and useful guide to creating your own vlog. The book covers the whole process from pre- to post-production, including generating ideas, finding your voice, planning, online safety, equipment, camera techniques, lighting, audio, editing and promotion....

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Name: Jess Locke
25 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Wow! Garvie Smith is an unusual teen protaganist; lazy, sarcastic, into smoking and hanging about with his mates at his local park. He is also ferociously intelligent with a high IQ, which comes in handy when he is compelled to solve the mystery of a murdered local school girl. This story will...

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Name: James Hewish
24 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Laugh-out-loud funny, original and highly entertaining. Baby's First Jailbreak appeals to a range of ages with its delightful and detailed illustrations accompanying a very humorous narrative that children will delight in returning to again and again. The story, by Jim Whaley, tells the tale of...

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Name: James Hewish
24 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

A boy and his cat, Ginger, have a bedtime secret: when baddies are out the boy becomes Midnight Ninja! Go, midnight ninja, go! An action-packed picture book written and illustrated by Sam Lloyd that is told in an engaging, comic-book style. It kept my five-year-old entertained throughout and ins...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
22 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Max desperately wants a new pet but his parents are far from sure that its a good idea. Puppy? They chew too much. Parrot? They talk too much. Shark? They bite too much! How about a Dragon? Well obviously Max's parents are right when they say that they do't exist .... aren't they? Running...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
22 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Ben Manley has created a wonderfully structured story in the form of The Misadventures of Frederick. From the title alone, readers are lured into a realm of thinking around what these misadventures could be. The story opens on an illustration of a boy sat alone on a bed, gazing towards an open...

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Name: James Hewish
22 October 2019;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

The illustrations are beautiful! This book has so many meanings, hidden messages, and themes: friendship, love of reading, love, loneliness, being misjudged and facing your fears all feature within this picture book. However, the overriding message is that of not judging a book by its cover. T...

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Name: Ellen Green
21 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

What a treat to find a new picture book by Debi Gliori, and The Bookworm really is a treat, bringing as it does Gliori's masterful touch with relationships, childhood desires and the unexpected - and not forgetting her gorgeous illustrations with lots of humorous touches! In the story, Max wan...

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Name: Janet Fisher
21 October 2019;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Set in the Somerset Levels in 1616, and based on the actual event of a tsunami in January 1607, Emma Carroll's The Somerset Tsunami tells of a girl, named Fortune, living in a village of women but for one male, her brother Jem. But these are difficult times and the Protestants...

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Name: Ellen Green
21 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

What a feast of a delight this book is! Gorgeous, funny and just enough scary for 5-8 year olds. It is also packed with letters so a great way to introduce letter-writing in class. Meet Beast, a bright pink, sharp-toothed hairy monster who is dangling a small boy by the foot. "You are DINNER", sa...

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