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Dino Dinners
Name: Lizi Coombs
20 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
From The Natural History Museum, this book presents facts about Dinosaurs, hand in hand with playful rhyming verses that bring the animals to life. This book is more accessible than 'Wooly Mammoth' of the same series and has a more jokey approach to the description of the dinosaurs in the verses...
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Would you rather dine with a dung beetle or lunch with a maggot?
Name: Lizi Coombs
20 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
The second 'Would you Rather' book that I've encountered, I enjoyed this one so much more! This fantastic book is full of marvellous mini-beast facts all presented to young readers through thought provoking questions such as 'Would you rather have a queen bee for a mum, a water bug for a dad, a...
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Spot the Bird on the Building Site
Name: Lizi Coombs
20 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
An exciting book to look at, Spot the Bird on the Building Site shares facts about construction, using 'I-Spy' to keep children engaged and learning. The pages are brightly coloured and remind me of a simplified 'Where's Wally?' - there's a bird to spot on every page (as the title suggests!) and...
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Would You Rather have a shark for a sister or a ray for a brother?
Name: Lizi Coombs
20 August 2015;Genre: Information books
This is a good book that attacks fact sharing from an informal direction.... 'Would you rather...?', a game I'm sure many of us have played at one stage or another! Great for sparking discussion with children, this book poses many dilemmas for them to ponder over - what are the benefits of shari...
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Grandad's Island
Name: Ellie Williams
20 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
Syd could let himself into his much loved Grandad's house any time he wanted, but one day - he wasn't in any of the usual places. After searching an empty house, Syd hears Grandad calling to him from up in the attic, a space that Syd had never seen before, containing all the things that Grandad h...
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The Sea Tiger
Name: Ellie Williams
20 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
Themes of friendship and adventure run through this beautifully illustrated book. The Sea Tiger introduces us to a magical underwater world which he shares with his friend Oscar. He tells us 'Where I lead, Oscar follows'. Every day is a different adventure under the sea. Both myself and the chil...
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Finding Audrey
Name: Mrs Armstrong-Harris
19 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
If you like John Green's The Fault in Ours Stars (TFIOS) you will probably like this similar themed story. Audrey cannot leave the house, she can't even look at people's faces when she talks to them. This is debilitating her life; she doesn't go to school, she doesn't hang out with friends, she d...
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Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity
Name: June Hughes
18 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is another in a series of books featuring the exploits of Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face, the brother and sister mystery-solving duo from the isle of Great Kerfluffle. The mystery this time involves a group of missing evil and wicked badgers, stolen clothing, a swarm of bees (or maybe not) and...
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Puppy Academy: Scout and the Sausage Thief
Name: Kerra Dagley
16 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
Scout is a German Shepherd puppy at the Sausage Dreams Puppy Academy for working dogs in Little Barking. Her parents are both well-known working police dogs and Scout hopes to follow in their paw prints when she grows up. The story is set on an important day for Scout, as she gets ready to take...
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Creature teacher Goes Wild
Name: June Hughes
12 August 2015;Genre: Young fiction
Mr Hyde is a teacher with a difference. When he gets excited, he turns into a wild uncontrollable creature that leaps about and causes all manner of mayhem. He cannot stop himself from becoming Creature Teacher so Jake, Nora and their classmates have taken it upon themselves to protect him from t...
