Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Joanna Hewish
08 April 2018;

Genre: Adventure

A delightful tale that encourages children to be kind and to do good deeds. A Home Full of Friends jumps off the shelf with its carefully, detailed hand drawn illustrations and embossed writing. The creatures that feature throughout the tale are softly drawn with big eyes and faces full of expr...

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Name: Lucy Newton
08 April 2018;

Genre: Adventure

This picture book has an interesting twist on the classic nursery rhyme - Humpty Dumpty, telling the story from Humpty's perspective. Humpty describes how he feels about his accident and how it effected him afterwards. It's an interesting, thought-provoking book which would appeal to children of...

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Name: Lucy Newton
08 April 2018;

Genre: Adventure

This picture book is all about how wonderful books are - not just for reading but for so many other reasons! These reasons include using it as a hat, shooing away bears, keeping wasps out of your drink, building something with books as blocks and swatting flies! It's a clever, thought-provoking...

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Name: Josie Age 11
08 April 2018;

Genre: Adventure

This book is full of mystery and adventure, leaving you endlessly on a cliffhanger unable to stop reading! I couldn't put this book down... I highly recommend it for ages 10-13, and hope that everyone will love this book as much as I do!

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Name: Joanna Hewish
08 April 2018;

Genre: Adventure

A lesson all children must learn - the importance of sharing. This simple story is perfect for young children as they become possessive of their toys and need to learn how to share. Swapsies tells a story of Fang, a young wolf who loves his favourite toy - his sock. But as his friends arrive...

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Name: Joanna Hewish
08 April 2018;

Genre: Adventure

A story that every parent can relate to - a toddler who refuses to eat! As parents we all tell those little white lies to our children, in vain attempts to try and get them to do something - eat vegetables or fruit, not to sit so close to the television, to go to bed on time.... Jarman and Blunt...

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Name: Emily Beale
06 April 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Do you have a favourite colour? Did you know that Eric Carle's favourite colour is yellow? Yellow like the sun. In his new book 'What's Your Favourite Colour' Eric explains why he loves yellow and invites 15 favourite children's book illustrators to share their favourite colours with us. This is...

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Name: Emily Beale
06 April 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Albie, the farmer's dog, wakes one morning to find that his companion Nellie has disappeared. Always together, Albie sets off in search of her. First he investigates the kitchen; The fire place, smell of food and cold stone floor are all the same but Nellie isn't there and her food bowl hasn't be...

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Name: Emily Beale
06 April 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Mr World is not feeling well. The children have decided to act as doctors today to try and diagnose the problem and help him to feel better. The world's symptoms appear to be that he is hot and sweaty and finding it hard to breath. The children's advice is for the world to get straight to bed, fo...

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Name: Emily Beale
06 April 2018;

Genre: Adventure

The animal residents of Pickle Rye have new neighbours. Mr Pigeon delivered the good news to the children of Mr and Mrs Rabbit, whilst they played up on the roof of the apartment building. They squealed with glee to hear that their new neighbours would be rats! The bunnies rush off to tell the re...

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