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Gina Kaminski Rescues the Giant
Name: Wendy Kelly
20 August 2024;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Gosh, what a find this book is! A first glance at the cover art shows a very determined little girl with a backpack who is clutching an emotions chart. A very interesting detail.... It transpires that Gina Kaminski is quite probably neurodivergent (on the ASD Spectrum?) which is very refreshin...
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Be Normal!
Name: Elen Green
20 August 2024;Genre: Friends and family
What a lovely story about friendship and valuing our friends for their differences. Be Normal! begins when Theo gets a new dog. He's really excited and has prepared well, but what he's not prepared for is the fact that the dog, Geoff, just isn't like other dog...
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Raz Beri
Name: Sue Wilsher
19 August 2024;Genre: Personal Growth
Billy Turpin has cerebral palsy and is finding life at secondary school challenging. Dealing with bullies, thoughtless teachers and an over-helpful helper, he just wishes everyone would stop treating him differently. Mia, also a wheelchair user, has recently started his school and constantly c...
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Mabel and the Big Wide World
Name: Sue Wilsher
19 August 2024;Genre: Adventure
Mabel lives in a barn with her siblings and is very happy to stay safely inside whilst her older brothers and sisters explore the world beyond the barn doors. Occasionally she watches them playing, but is never tempted to go and join in the fun. However, when a rainbow appears in the sky, she...
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One Button and the Sea
Name: Wendy Kelly
19 August 2024;Genre: Family & Home
On the face of it, this is s simple tale of a community ripped apart by a disaster, their flight from danger and eventual homecoming. It could certainly be used this way with a younger audience as a simple way to start a conversation about why community is important. However, the themes it dea...
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You're a Poet: Ways to Start Writing Poems
Name: Wendy Kelly
19 August 2024;Genre: Poetry
Walker Books has done it again! I was delighted to receive this treasure, You're a Poet: Ways to Start Writing Poems, which every primary teacher (or at least every English Leader) needs a copy of. On the face of it, it's a picture book that tells the everyday life of P...
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Godfrey is a Frog
Name: Wendy Kelly
19 August 2024;Genre: Funny Stories
At first I thought that Godfrey is a Frog was a beautifully illustrated science book, but was bemused by the life-cycle process of Godfrey growing from an egg to a frog being completed by page four. What it actually is, is so much better (although reminding children that the p...
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I Love Books
Name: Maria Faithorn
19 August 2024;Genre: Picture Books
A great, laugh-out-loud book, perfect for all children, and particularly those reluctant readers! It's the end of the school term and, as the children leave the class, the teacher tells them to read a book over the holidays. Horror! This child HATES books! And a trip to the library - the most...
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A Walk Through the Rainforest
Name: Maria Faithorn
19 August 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
A Walk Through the Rainforest is a fascinating book exploring rainforests. The author has cleverly written this so the reader feels that they are there, in the rainforest, with the sounds around them. The illustrations further support this by providing detailed, often close up...
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The Fights That Make Us
Name: Louisa Farrow
19 August 2024;Genre: LBGTQ+
Jesse has recently come out as non-binary and is finding it hard to feel they belong and are accepted in school, despite staunch support from their best friend, Simran, and their parents. They also need to find a good subject for a history project to impress their inspiring new teacher, Mrs Gr...
