Schools & Libraries Book Reviews
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Knowing the Score
Name: Chloe Age 10
23 May 2024;Genre: Family & Home
Knowing the Score has a wonderful story line and touched my heart but I think it would've been even better if there was more suspense or action. Also, there was very little difficult vocabulary and other than the story, I didn't learn any new words. But in general the book w...
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Nature is an Artist
Name: Sharon Porter
23 May 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Nature is an Artist is a kaleidoscope of colour, with a green creature representing nature who creates all sorts of landscapes. It is aimed at young children, however, my Year Five children (ages 9+) enjoyed thinking about the landscape vocabulary, making links to their geogra...
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Adventuremice: Mermouse Mystery
Name: Amanda Shipton
23 May 2024;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Reeve and McIntyre have done it again! Adventuremice: Mermouse Mystery is another thrilling adventure with plenty of peril, excitement and wonder, pitched perfectly for young readers. Every early chapter book reader likes nothing more than drama and the idea of the rescue miss...
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Mad About Monkeys
Name: Pat
23 May 2024;Genre: Animals
Mad About Monkeys is a glorious celebration of these intriguing primates accompanied by wonderful illustrations. The book contains a contents page which leads logically through the chapters, which deal with what monkeys are, food and habitats, evolution, social life and identi...
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The HOYS
Name: Samantha Hughes
23 May 2024;Genre: Funny Stories
Kes Gray is a popular author with the children at school and this book did not disappoint. The vibrant illustrations bring the book to life, with the parrot and its expressions being a firm favourite with the children. They were pleased that he became a 'proper pirate's parrot' by the end of t...
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Wherever You Go: From the creators of All Are Welcome
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 May 2024;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Wherever You Go revisits the same class of children readers were introduced to in All Are Welcome, but is written as if from the eyes of an adult as they watch their child grow from baby through to a school graduation. This is somew...
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On Poetry Street
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 May 2024;Genre: Poetry
In this collection, Brian Moses offers not only 52 poems (one for any week of the year), but oodles of inspiration and possibility. On Poetry Street shows just how accessible and enjoyable creating poems can be and is sure to leave readers itching to get started. This...
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All the Hidden Monsters
Name: Clare Wilkins
22 May 2024;Genre: Mystery & Detective
All the Hidden Monsters is a perfect, twisty, supernatural thriller that you simply won't be able to put down. Oren works for the Arcanum, a warlock institution that upholds law and order in the supernatural world. Werewolf Sage is an aspiring detective, perpetually rejected b...
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I Really, Really Don't Like Parties
Name: Wendy Kelly
22 May 2024;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Dora finds a party invitation in her school book bag. It's for her friend, Rashid's, birthday party. Dora has been to a party before and hated it; too loud and too busy. Mum keeps telling her it will be fun but Dora thinks up more and more outlandish excuses as to why she isn't able to attend....
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Mad about Monkeys
Name: Sharon Porter
22 May 2024;Genre: Animals
Mad about Monkeys by Owen Davey is a brilliant non fiction text, covering our primate cousins, monkeys. It can be used as a source of information to show children how to set out non chronological reports in English or as a source book for science research. The stylised...
