Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Torie Walton
01 June 2016;

Genre: Real life

Footpath Flowers (now available in paperback) is delicate, beautiful and carries a poignant message. Through its exquisite ink and watercolour illustrations, Footpath Flowers tells the story of a young girl and her distracted father. As they walk home, through the bustling city, she finds beaut...

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Name: Alison Chase
24 May 2016;

Genre: Adventure

This is a really useful book for topics about people who help and support us, and it gives a really useful glimpse into the kinds of things that grown-ups get up to. Given that children often wonder what they'll be doing as adults, this book is also a useful tool for showing them just how many...

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Name: Clare Childs
24 May 2016;

Genre: Adventure

With the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London just around the corner (September), this is a timely and beautifully produced picture book that helps to explain to young children in KS1 what happened during those terrifying three days when so much of London was in flame. The text is kept s...

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Name: Marie Berry
23 May 2016;

Genre: Adventure

In the past with year 5 and 6 pupils I have made maths fact books with flaps and pull outs etc... I've always had to make the model myself - well never again! Magical maths is a fantastic maths fact book which gives a whole wealth of information from across the maths curriculum. The interactive...

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Name: Victoria Dilly
21 May 2016;

Genre: Friends and family

Charlie Law lives with his Mum and Dad in Little Town, a place run by the Regime, through gangs of Rascals who patrol the town making the residents' lives a misery. There's no freedom of speech and pretty much no 'normal' life, the result being it's a boring but scary existence. Charlie lives...

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Name: Emily Beale
18 May 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Let's explore space - what is it? What is a star? And what is the solar system? The new Fact Finders SPACE book answers all these questions and more - and all through the wonder of pop ups! Meet the scientists who have changed our view of the universe and discover a map of the cosmos where the pl...

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Name: Alice Childs
16 May 2016;

Genre: Adventure

This story has a vile villain, some terrible teachers, a dead hamster and a dare-devil rat so expect lots of danger, some near disasters and many thrills! Zoe isnt having a great time. She lives on the 37th floor of a council flat, she is bullied, her dad is always in the pub and she has the w...

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Name: Emily Beale
16 May 2016;

Genre: Adventure

In 1862, New Mexico, a lone pack of wolves roams a dramatically changing landscape. The notorious mob of grey american wolves have terrorised the region's livestock, desperate for food due to the loss of their natural habitat and food sources. They are led by Old Lobo the king of the Currumpaw va...

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Name: Torie Walton
15 May 2016;

Genre: Adventure

'This is the story of ALISON HUBBLE who went to bed single and woke up double.' Alison Hubble goes to bed one night as a normal little girl. Imagine her surprise - and that of her parents - when she wakes the next morning to find she has doubled and there is another identical Alison Hubble in h...

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Name: Torie Walton
15 May 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Vincent is under strict instructions to rush to the shops and hurry home in time for tea. After all, the cupboards are looking rather bare! Shopping list in hand, he sets off. But, things don't go quite as planned. A gust of wind blows the shopping list right out of Vincent's hand and off int...

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