Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

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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Name: Lizi Coombs
21 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

The 'Little People, Big Dreams' series is a collection of beautifully bound books that tell the stories of many famous faces. The series says that, through them, children will 'Discover the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists. All of them achieved incredible thi...

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Name: Emily Beale
21 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Have you ever been to a Muslim wedding? Have you wondered if people from the same Muslim faith around the world celebrate differently? Mabrook! is a beautiful picture book reflection on the colours, sights and sounds witnessed during Muslim wedding celebrations throughout the world. Na'ima Robert...

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Name: Marie Berry
19 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

I fell in love with this book immediately, both as a teacher and as a mother. From the same pairing that brought us 'Oi Frog', Quick Quack Quentin tells the humourous tale of Quentin the duck who has a quick 'quck' after he loses the A out of his quack. The story shows Quentin searching through...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
19 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

The life of William Shakespeare, from birth to grave, is a brilliantly told in words and pictures. Simon Callow's quote on the cover says it all; this is 'a perfect introduction to the real Shakespeare'. Packed with information about Elizabethan life as well as the man himself, Mick Manning and B...

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Name: Kerra Dagley
18 March 2016;

Genre: Fantasy

The third book in the series, Witch Watch sees our witchy heroine Tiga Whicabim ready to set off in search for her missing mother in the Silver City. However, just as she's getting ready to leave, colour starts to return into the black and white world of Sinkville. First, in t...

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Name: Kerra Dagley
18 March 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Summed up in three words by the publishers as 'Action', Survival, Terror', I'd have to agree. I read this book in one sitting, I just had to find out what would happen to Ash before I put it down. The book opens with Ash McCarthy, returning home after his dad's funeral, before he wakes up in a s...

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