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Captain Jack and the Pirates
Name: Sue Wilsher
18 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
A day out at the beach turns into the most amazing piratical adventure as Jack and his shipmates let their imaginations run wild. Told in rhyme, the story follows the boys as they create their galleon and set off across the ocean to face whatever lies ahead. The language is rich and stimulating;...
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The Sleeper and the Spindle
Name: Sue Wilsher
18 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
A mixture of elements of Sleeping Beauty and elements of Snow White, The Sleeper and the Spindle is a very Neil Gaiman twisting of these fairy tales. No reference is made to these tales for 'names are in short supply in this telling'. Princes are very much in the background - hanging in the rose...
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Footpath Flowers
Name: Sue Wilsher
16 June 2016;Genre: Real life
In this wordless book, a little girl collects flowers as she makes her way home with her father who pays no attention to her or to their surroundings. She gives the flowers as gifts to those she passes, touching their lives in a variety of ways. This is a beautiful book, both in sentiment and il...
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Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
Name: Sue Wilsher
16 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
Sam and Dave are on a mission to find something spectacular, so they start to dig. The reader shares the joke about how close they come to finding treasure without ever knowing it. My husband is not a huge fan of picture books, but this one had him laughing out loud! The pictures show Sam and Da...
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Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for all the Letters
Name: Sue Wilsher
15 June 2016;Genre: Humour
If words make up stories, and letters make up words, then stories are made of letters. In this menagerie, we have stories, made of words, made FOR all the letters. This big, bright book offers twenty-six short stories - one for each letter of the alphabet! Whether read in alphabetical order or as...
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Marge in Charge
Name: June Hughes
12 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
Jemima Button is seven and her brother Jake is four. Their parents, when they go out, leave them with a babysitter. So far, so normal. The new babysitter, however, is far from normal, though the children's parents never find out just how far from normal Marge really is. She arrives, short, seriou...
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Beaky Malone: World's Greatest Liar
Name: Emily Beale
11 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
Dylan Malone aka Beaky, could possibly be the world's greatest liar. Whether he's leading expeditions to the north pole, boasting of his psychic abilities, boxing swans in the park or dodging deadly deceases - Beaky will have a creative answer for everything. However, when extended family members...
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Night Wanderers
Name: Emma Age 15
07 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
The characters are really well developed and you can really feel for them. It's very dramatic and there's a sense of suspense building up throughout the whole story.
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Knitbone Pepper Ghost Dog and the Last Circus Tiger
Name: Kerra Dagley
05 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
The inhabitants of Starcross Hall are all really quite unusual. It's a place where normal house rules simply don't apply. It's where generations of beloved Pepper ghost pets, a goose, monkey, hamster, amongst others, play hide and seek. Winnie, the youngest Pepper is the only living person who...
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Storm Walker
Name: June Hughes
04 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
Twelve year old Owen and his Dad are coming to terms with life a year after the death of Owen's mother. Or rather, they are not - her ashes remain in an urn on the mantelpiece; Owen's Dad, a published author, has not written a word since she died; home life is a disorganised jumble of takeaway...
