Schools & Libraries Book Reviews
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There's A Beach in My Pants!
Name: Lauren Maidman
20 May 2024;Genre: Funny Stories
There's a Beach in my Pants is the hilarious rhyming tale of a little girl's bad day turned good at the beach. After a disastrous trip to the beach with her Mum, the little girl gets a lot more than she bargained for when she gets home! A fish and chip shop in the downstairs c...
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Adnan: The Boy who Helped his Mummy Remember
Name: Sue Wilsher
20 May 2024;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Based on a short film of the same name, Adnan: The Boy who Helped his Mummy Remember tells the story of a little boy who creates a 'save mummy plan' in an attempt to rescue her from depression. Although Adnan and his mother are now safe in a new home, the terrors and grief the...
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I Love Books
Name: Maria
20 May 2024;Genre: Picture Books
I Love Books is an unusual book with an important message. On the cover, the title reads, 'I Hate(crossed out) Love Books, which begins to explain what the story is about. The beginning of the book takes us to a classroom on the final day as the children are breaking up for the summer holiday...
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Five Little Ducks: A Slide and Count Book
Name: Elen Green
20 May 2024;Genre: Early Skills
Five Little Ducks: A Slide and Count Book is a lovely first counting book for children aged two years plus, and will test their fine motor skills, too, when sliding the counters around the pages. The board book follows the nursery rhyme of 'five little ducks' but it can...
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Pip and Posy's Big Book of Words
Name: Lucy Hopkins
20 May 2024;Genre: Early Skills
There's something about an oversized book which makes them even more exciting and appealing to look at! Pip and Posy's Big Book of Words has a rainbow-coloured key down one side with pictures of objects which are clues to the topics covered on each page. This is a great way fo...
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Daddy's Footsteps
Name: Tracy Parvin
20 May 2024;Genre: Family & Home
Four baby dinosaurs join their dads on an adventurous ramble through their wild and dangerous world. As they stroll along, our narrator's daddy supports and guides his son with words of wisdom. Following his father's footsteps, our young dino feels safe and secure: his dad is so big and strong...
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Explodapedia: Rewild - Can Nature heal Our World?
Name: Sue Wilsher
17 May 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
The latest in the excellent 'Explodapedia' series, Rewild: Can Nature heal Our World? is a very engaging and accessible read. Guided by cartoons of chatty and cheeky fungi, the book carefully explains the idea behind rewilding as well as why is it so important in a humorous an...
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Magicalia
Name: Jenny Caddick
17 May 2024;Genre: Fantasy
"Until a monster swallowed her PE kit, Bitsy's evening had been going to plan." A fantastical, imaginative adventure awaits when the reader is swept into a world of magicore beasts, created by emotions held within our memories. A long-ago meteorite named farthingstone left its magical imprint...
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Ember Spark and the Thunder of Dragons
Name: Jacqueline Harris
17 May 2024;Genre: Magical Realism
Ember Spark is an ordinary girl who is always ready for an adventure to start. One day an adventure does start, and Ember is flung into an adventure more wild and wonderful than anything her favourite comic book heroine, Gutsy Wonder, could have imagined. Ember finds out that she is an apprent...
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I Am Wolf
Name: Beverley Somerset
17 May 2024;Genre: Science Fiction
Coll is a member of the Wolf crew. His home is a giant mechanical Construct of a wolf, which fights other animal shaped Constructs for territory. There is no friendship between crews, only fierce rivalry. Coll's life changes dramatically when, during a battle with another Construct, he is thro...
