Schools & Libraries Book Reviews
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If all the world were...
Name: Kyle Matravers
12 August 2018;Genre: Bereavement
Death is topic that you would not expect to come face to face with when reading a children's book and is certainly an area that needs to be addressed and delivered in the correct way. Joseph Coelho has done this in a sensitive and beautiful way through If All the World Were......
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Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Missing Masterpiece
Name: Kyle Matravers
12 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
Having met Tracey Corderoy and Steve Lenton a couple of years ago during a school visit, I was very excited to receive the latest adventure in the Shifty series. This time, the detective dog duo have packed up their pans and are in Paris to bake a huge gingerbread tower for a fancy art gallery...
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How to be a Lion
Name: Kyle Matravers
07 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
Although not a thrilling and exciting story, How to be a Lion still delivers an important message to children about always being yourself, despite what others say. It encourages following your own path and not the path that others believe you should take. I feel that this is a very important mes...
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Something Fishy
Name: Kyle Matravers
07 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
Polly Dunbar has created a funny and charming take on the arrival of a new sibling into a family. The story centres around a couple and their pet cat. The text is written from the point of view of the cat and his love of fish. He introduces his family and declares that they give him lots of f...
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Iguana Boy saves the world with a triple cheese pizza
Name: Leia Sands
06 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
This is the story of Dylan, a boy who dreams of being a superhero just like his brother Arctic Thunder and his sister Millie Monday. However, on discovering his slightly disappointing superpower - the ability to talk to iguanas - Dylan feels rather inadequate. The evil Super Villain Platypus Kid...
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Children of Blood and Bone
Name: Linda Brown
03 August 2018;Genre: Fantasy
This debut YA novel has breathless pacing, wonderful worldbuilding that lets your imagination run wild and a strong heroine that the reader roots for. Children of Blood and Bone is told through four different points of view, but their lives are all woven around the main charac...
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The Eye of the North
Name: Matt Davies
02 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
What an adventure! This book centres around Emmeline, whose parents mysteriously vanish. Before long, she is on a ship to France where she encounters her side-kick-to-be, Thing. Everything takes a turn for the worse when Emmeline is kidnapped and taken to the North. From here on in, we have sc...
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Name: Sam Holmes
02 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
Emmeline is trying to find her parents and is desperate to know why they can't be contacted. She receives a ship ticket and instructions to meet her new guardian in Paris. However, things don't go to plan and, despite befriending a stowaway named 'Thing', Emmeline is kidnapped by the evil Dr....
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Name: Susan Wilsher
02 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
Living high in the mountains of the Philippines in 1899, Samkad's world is his tribe, his village. Now he is about the have the Cut and become a man. He is desperate to play his part in keeping the tribe safe from their enemy, the head-hunting Mangili, even if it means he will no longer be abl...
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A Kid in My Class: Poems
Name: Alison Kelly
02 August 2018;Genre: Poetry
What a lovely collaboration between two acclaimed figures in the field of children's literature this is! CLIPPA prize-winner, Rachel Rooney, brings a whole school classroom to life (and I don't just mean its pupils), beautifully complemented by former Children's Laureate, Chris Riddell...
