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  • Blocks

    Blocks - Let's Share

    Name: Helen Fox
    10 July 2017;

    Genre: Adventure

    It isn't always easy to encourage young children to share so this is a great story to read aloud when children are struggling with the idea of sharing and / or playing together. It's also beautifully illustrated with slightly retro-style, bright images that will catch children's attention. Rub...

  • Fairy Tale Pets

    Fairy Tale Pets

    Name: Alex Young
    10 July 2017;

    Genre: Adventure

    Imagine if the fairy tale characters - Goldilocks, the three little pigs, Jack from the beanstalk and the troll in the Three Billy Goats Gruff - needed to tend to the animals that have a role in each of their stories? How tricky might they be to look after? When Bob, who is broke, decides to set...

  • Alex, Approximately

    Alex, Approximately

    Name: Alice Short
    10 July 2017;

    Genre: Adventure

    When she moves across the States to live with her dad, Bailey has a plan - to seek out the boy she's been chatting with, and falling a bit in love with, online. The only problem? She doesn't know his real name, nor what he looks like. While she finds her feet and gets to grips with her summer job...

  • There Is No Dragon In This Story

    There is No Dragon in This Story

    Name: Jayne Gould
    07 July 2017;

    Genre: Adventure

    There is definitely no dragon in this story! He has gone off in a huff because he doesn't want to capture icky, frilly princesses today or fight brave, shiny knights. This dragon wants to find a story where he can be the hero for a change! But it proves a little difficult when everybody he app...

  • Caraval: the mesmerising Sunday Times bestseller

    Caraval

    Name: Linda brown
    05 July 2017;

    Genre: Adventure

    Wow, what a debut novel. This book is a rollercoaster of a story. It had me gripped right from the start. The story tells of a young girl called Scarlett who dreams of witnessing a week-long magical performance called Caraval. However, Scarlett has never left the tiny isle of Trisda where she suf...

  • Big Brown Bear's Cave

    Big Brown Bear's Cave

    Name: Marie Berry
    03 July 2017;

    Genre: Adventure

    Big Brown Bear's Cave is a lovely picture book. It tells the story of Brown bear who finds a new cave and can't make it feel like home. So he goes out to find 'stuff' to put in his cave. He stumbles across a human street and notices their caves (also known as sheds) are full of stuff so he dec...

  • The Bolds

    The Bolds

    Name: Tanjina Age 9
    03 July 2017;

    Genre: Humour

    I liked the bit when Bobby used his hyena hand and feet to jump the highest for the Sport's Day competition and the boy Kyle, who was a show-off, got embarrassed. Well done to Julian Clary for putting a lot of description in to paint a picture in the reader's head. My favourite character is Mrs...

  • Out of Heart

    Out of heart

    Name: Alison Ustun
    03 July 2017;

    Genre: Adventure

    This is a moving story about a boy and his family; each alone in their own world. Adam is a gifted artist who finds it hard to express his feelings and talk to others at school, so he keeps a diary full of sketches and poems and sprays graffiti under the protection of the local gang. Following...

  • The Thing

    The Thing

    Name: Kyle Matravers
    29 June 2017;

    Genre: Adventure

    The Thing is a book that constantly leaves you asking questions. Throughout the book, we never find out just what is The Thing that just suddenly appears one day. We are left to use our imaginations. My Y1 children decided that it was an alien spaceship, an egg, a cocoon, a butterfly and most i...

  • The Night Box

    The Night Box

    Name: Kyle Matravers
    29 June 2017;

    Genre: Adventure

    The Night Box is a truly wonderful tale of how day becomes night and night becomes day. Centred around the main character of Max, we see how day slowly begins to get ready to 'sleep' and how the environment around him begins to show these signs, too. What I really enjoyed was how the author mad...