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  • Look to the Skies

    Look to the Skies

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    11 June 2022;

    Genre: Environment

    Look to the Skies is a beautiful book following the migration, across North America, of the Monarch butterflies. You follow the butterflies on their journey, through the pages through the well thought-out cut-outs.   The children that I shared Look to the Sk...

  • The Knight With the Blazing Bottom

    The Knight with the Blazing Bottom

    Name: Elen Green
    10 June 2022;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    Like The Dragon with the Blazing Bottom - Beach's original picture book - his follow-up The Knight with the Blazing Bottom is packed with rib-tickling antics and a bouncy rhyming text that will have children giggling alo...

  • Escape to the River Sea

    Escape to the River Sea

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    09 June 2022;

    Genre: Environment

    Inspired by Eva Ibbotson’s classic, Escape to the River Sea opens with the story of Rosa Sweetman, a young girl who arrived in England as part of the Kinderstransport and who finds herself in the care of Sir Clovis and living at Westwood Estate, initially in the company of oth...

  • Vehicles

    Vehicles

    Name: Jessica Bunney
    09 June 2022;

    Genre: Baby & Toddler Books

    Vehicles is one of two in a series written by Okidokid – the other being People. Vehicles is an interactive, sturdy, lift-the-flap board book brought to us by Little Tiger. Little Tiger have yet again provided us with a chunky board book per...

  • Just Like Grandpa Jazz

    Just Like Grandpa Jazz

    Name: Sharon Porter
    07 June 2022;

    Genre: Representation & Inclusion

    Grandpa Jazz tells his Grandson, Frank, stories all the time. Some of the stories are true, some are embellished a little with Grandpa's vivid imagination - just like a true grandpa! Grandpa tells Frank all about how he came to live in Britain and the sorts of things he experienced as a...

  • Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu

    Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu

    Name: Lisa Watkins
    07 June 2022;

    Genre: Friends and family

    This is the second book I have read by Maisie Chan and it is just as brilliant as the first, Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths!  Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu is a heart-warming story of 12-year-old Lizzie-Chu who lives with he...

  • Tag, You're Dead

    Tag, You're Dead

    Name: Clare Wilkins
    07 June 2022;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    Tag, You're Dead is Kathryn Foxfield's latest book is another high-energy - and decidedly creepy - thriller. Reality star Anton Frazer has been lying low since a newsworthy death at his home, but desperate for a return to the limelight he launches an audacious city-wide game o...

  • How to Be True

    How to be True

    Name: Jo Clarke
    06 June 2022;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    How To Be True is the second adventure set amongst the School of the Good Sisters and it reunites the reader with familiar characters, Edie, Hanna and Calla. Just like its predecessor, How to Be Brave, it is narrated by Good Sister June, a...

  • One Little Seed

    One Little Seed

    Name: Lynnette Voisey
    03 June 2022;

    Genre: Environment

    One Little Seed looks like a simple, colourful lift-the-flap board book - until you open up the brilliantly designed book cover to find an engaging, informative text, following the story of seeds into plants. The photo illustrations combine with the detailed drawings to introd...

  • I Am Nefertiti

    I Am Nefertiti

    Name: Sharon Porter
    02 June 2022;

    Genre: Personal Growth

    When someone can't use your name it makes you feel worthless and this happened to Nefertiti when a new music teacher instructs the school band. Once the teacher can say her name, however, her confidence and playing improve. Eventually, the band is rocking with Nefertiti holding the rhythm toge...