Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Carol Carter
30 March 2020;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Willow Wildthing and the Swamp Monster is the first in a new series adventure stories for younger readers from renowned storyteller Gill Lewis.Willow is finding life tough - new house, new town, brother ill in hospital, and she keeps hearing a terrifying howling in...

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Name: Rhiannon Cook
29 March 2020;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

All Ross wants is to live a 'normal' life; hang out with his best friends Abby and Isaac; go to school; crush on popular girl Sarah Kennedy and avoid school bully Jimmy. However, a rare form of cancer puts an end to any kind of normal Ross had and, as his life begins to change, so do the perce...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
29 March 2020;

Genre: Non Fiction

An engaging and easy to navigate Non Fiction book that is beautifully illustrated throughout with detailed, eye-catching drawings of bats and their habitats.  The Bat Book has a well-designed layout with bold captions and sub headings . The bat facts are chunked into ap...

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Name: Lizi Backhouse
28 March 2020;

Genre: Poetry

This vibrant book aims to get children performing poems, alone, with friends and in large groups. It's a fantastic introduction to a wide range of different poems - free verse, riddles, rhyming poems to name but a few. There are poems that personify, poems to be read by more than one person, e...

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Name: Lizi Backhouse
28 March 2020;

Genre: Personal Growth

Squirrel and his friends - Woodpecker, Snake, Turtle and Fox - are all having a bad day with things not going to plan at all, although Mouse's day turns out to be worse than all of them. however, when the friends team up together, they manage to change each other's luck. This is a lovel...

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Name: Lizi Backhouse
28 March 2020;

Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies

The Little People Big Dreams series of books are great for introducing younger readers to outstanding people, from artists to scientists, throughout history and the modern day. All achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream.This one is...

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Name: Bryony Davies
26 March 2020;

Genre: Adventure

The Story of Inventions by Catherine Barr and Steve Williams, illustrated by Amy Husband, covers some of the most famous and used inventions throughout history. This highly visual book is organised chronologically from the invention of the wheel to the invention of the internet. Each invention...

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Name: Clair Bossons
25 March 2020;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

Flora has distanced herself from her school friends and effectively left her old life behind following an incident that led to her being diagnosed with bipolar II. Even own mother moved away, leaving Flora in the care of her older brother Charlie and his partner Felix. They live in a cottage i...

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Name: James Hewish
24 March 2020;

Genre: Picture Books

A beautiful - and useful - story about the cyclical nature of money, and about debt. The author, Roger McGough, takes the notion that money makes the world go round and delivers it back to his audience in an amazingly crafted and beautifully illustrated picture book. The book is a literary and...

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Name: HJM
24 March 2020;

Genre: Adventure

I got the book last Christmas and had finished it in just under two months, I know that's a long time, but not for me as with other books I have read it has taken me 6-12 months to read. I loved it, could hardly ever put it down. I would take it to school and read it in the library or in class wh...

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