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The Tale of the Whale
Name: Jemma Jeffrey
15 February 2022;Genre: Environment & Nature
This incredible book is both beautiful and harrowing. We begin by following a friendship between a child and a whale as they embark on a journey across the oceans, meeting a range of sea creatures on their way. The illustrations are soft, wonderfully detailed and dreamy. Written in first perso...
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Mike Falls Up
Name: Maria Faithorn
15 February 2022;Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction
It's the sunny season and it's just too hot for young Mike and his dog, Bowow. Unfortunately, as they try to stay cool in the shade of the house, Mama sends them out to play. They head off to the surrounding Chocolate Hills when all of a sudden an earthquake causes a rumble and the ground belo...
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Mike Falls Up
Name: Wendy Kelly
14 February 2022;Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction
Mike Falls Up is part of the new Little Tiger readers, designed to support children moving from picture books to their first chapter books. The book itself is sumptuous- a lovely, thick cardboard cover, small enough to fit comfortably in little hands with an engaging picture f...
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The Boy in the Post
Name: Jennifer Caddick
14 February 2022;Genre: Adventure
The Boy in the Post is an energetic, lively and charming, children- and animal-packed adventure story, with a warm, gentle and old fashioned feel to the characters, setting and tone. The story follows a summer holiday like no other for three siblings: Orinthia, Seafra a...
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Dread Wood
Name: Jennifer Caddick
14 February 2022;Genre: Horror
Dread Wood is the superb, super-scary and super-cool new horror-comedy story from the brilliant Jennifer Killick. After her last two books (the fantastically creepy Crater Lake and Crater Lake: Evolution), Jennifer has, yet again, upped the level of stylishly slick, sinister s...
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Solve Your Own Mystery The Time Thief
Name: Jennifer Caddick
14 February 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
This was a fabulous, funny, intriguing and puzzling interactive mystery story where you, the reader, becomes one of the main characters and detectives of the crime that has been committed. You find yourself in the town of Haventry. It may look normal but it also has a 'Shady Side', inhabited b...
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How to be a Hero: A Gathering of Giants
Name: Linda Canning
14 February 2022;Genre: Adventure
I have adored the How to be a Hero series from beginning to end, and A Gathering of Giants is no exception. The perfect ending to a fantastic series, it sees Lotta and Whetstone face their greatest challenges yet. Like its prequels, it is a quest story packed...
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Home is Where the Heart Is
Name: Samantha Hughes
14 February 2022;Genre: Friendship
In Home is Where the Heart Is, Bear moves into the Wild Old Woods and make a home for himself. Despite it being filled with beautiful things, however, there is something missing; Bear realises that he's lonely. So he goes out in search of a friend. He meets Hare, who is very d...
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The Boy who Stepped Through Time
Name: Emma Nelson
13 February 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Anna Ciddor's novel The Boy Who Stepped Through Time is a glorious tale of a boy who time travels back to the Roman era whilst on holiday with his family. The story begins with Perry and his family visiting a Roman grape harvest festival at a Roman villa in France. Perry inadv...
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Speedy Monkey
Name: Amanda Shipton
12 February 2022;Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction
Speedy Monkey is a beutifully written, colourful, hardback book; perfect for children who are developing fluency and moving away from phonetically decodable texts. The vocabulary used will allow for wonderful discussions and allow opportunities to ask questions about a child's...
