Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Marie Berry
26 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

A beautifully simple children's classic. Through the window is the story of little Jo, and her wait for mum to return from work one day when she is ill. This very sweet story is all about what Jo sees from her window while waiting for her mother to return. All the different visitors of the da...

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Name: Janet Sands
24 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

This beautifully-produced book is teeming with life, exploring the world of bugs and their habitats. Each spread is full of small creatures in their natural habitats, with small sections of break-out text that explains what distinguishes that species and interesting facts about them (eg Does a ce...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
24 March 2016;

Genre: Books set in the past

Young Toby is down on his luck. His parents have died and he has been trying to survive on the streets of Tudor London. A resourceful youth, he seeks out Moll Cut-Purse in a bid to become a member of her gang of nippers, dippers and cut-purses. It's a dangerous life, but better than being alone!...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
24 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Hiccup is a tiny, thoughtful and polite Viking. The other Vikings are 'enormous roaring burglars with bristling moustaches' so poor Hiccup really feels like he doesn't fit in. It doesn't help that his father, Stoick the Vast, is everything a Viking should be and doesn't understand how frightened...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
23 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Bear is awoken early from her hibernation and decides that if she can't sleep, she'll make her first-ever snowman. Rabbit has never made a snowman either - and is determined to make one better than Bear's. However, when faced with a hungry fox, Rabbit learns that a friend in need is a friend ind...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
22 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Who doesn't love Hugless Douglas? In this adventure, Douglas helps Flossie find her best friend, Little Sheep. In doing so, he realises that everyone has a best friend - except him. Fortunately, things are soon sorted out! There is something so charming and endearing about Hugless Douglas- he is...

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Name: Natalie Plimmer
22 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

This beautifully illustrated debut story - now available in paperback - is charmingly magical; it has also just won a Waterstones Book Prize award. In it, the reader is transported into an enchanting world from the moment Bear finds a "strange thing" in the woods and it makes an "awful sound". Th...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
21 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

This is a nice creation story (now available in paperback) that encourages its readers to value the natural world and themselves. The story begins in a cold world, with constant snow. The animals decide to ask the sun for help and the beautiful rainbow crow volunteers to go. The sun gifts the cr...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
21 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

This is an easy to read, clearly laid out non-fiction book that explains what weather is, how it varies around the world and then goes into great detail about the many different forms of weather that we see. & Although this book is jammed packed with facts, each page is well set out and the sec...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
21 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

The 'Little People, Big Dreams' series are a collection of beautifully bound books that tell the stories of many famous faces, showing their incredible achievements which began 'as a child with a dream'. This simple picture book tells children about the childhood and key life events of Frida Kah...

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