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Cookie and the Most Mysterious Mystery in the World
Name: Hayley Summerfield
02 September 2021;Genre: Humour
Cookie and the Most Mysterious Mystery in the World is the third instalment of the hilarious series by Konnie Huq. This book is full of mysteries waiting to be solved by Cookie and her friends, who seem to be connected to all of them. Through the character of Cookie, Konnie Hu...
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Feast Your Eyes on Food
Name: Hayley Summerfield
02 September 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
Feast Your Eyes on Food by Laura Gladwin, is a food encyclopaedia of more than 1000 delicious things to eat. This beautiful book stipulates that eating is more than just tasting the food we eat; it explains how food feeds the soul and allows us to experience new cultures and t...
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Time to Move South for Winter
Name: Sharon Porter
02 September 2021;Genre: Picture Books
This stunning book is fabulous for a migration topic in school. Time to Move South for Winter tells the tale of a tiny black-capped tern making her journey south and mentions the things she sees along the way. The geography or map studies that could be developed for key stage...
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The Puffin Portal
Name: Beverley Somerset
02 September 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Grace Griffin is a warder of the Griffin Map. Using its teleport technology, Grace helps to fight crime across Moreland. Her mother, Ann and brother, Bren are also wardens, and all three Griffins are very busy as they are experiencing more than the usual number of calls for help and the three...
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Name: Carol Carter
02 September 2021;Genre: Picture Books
Poor Bear. He was quite happy sat in his chair. But now Mouse has turned up, unasked for and unannounced. All bear wants is for Mouse to go, so he can be left in peace.With minimal words and expressive pictures, we can see from page 1 that Bear is a rather curmudgeonly creature whi...
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Ergo
Name: Catherine Kus
02 September 2021;Genre: Picture Books
Ergo is a very simple story with simple illustrations and would be suitable for any child in EYFS or Year 1. It would also be nice to use if the class were learning about chicks or had eggs waiting to be hatched in the classroom. The story idea is very straightforward – a chic...
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Polly Bee Makes Honey
Name: Samantha Hughes
02 September 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Polly Bee Makes Honey is the second title of a new non-fiction series aiming to help children understand and appreciate where their food comes from, and to be more environmentally aware. A girl follows Polly the worker bee collecting pollen and nectar from various flowe...
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Green Rising
Name: Linda Brown
02 September 2021;Genre: Dystopian
Hester is the daughter of the owner of Dalex, a huge company with huge earth damaging emissions, but she is also a 'Greenfinger', a person who can grow plants from within their body. When her dad asks her to head up a project using 'Greenfinger' teenagers, she meets, for the first time, with...
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Sky
Name: Maria
02 September 2021;Genre: Friends and family
This new book written by the talented Holly Webb was a Christmas reading treat. Sky is set in Scotland and follows a special Christmas visit by Lara and her parents to her grandparents. While on this special visit, Lara meets a family of snowy owls who take her on magical adve...
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A Thing Called Snow
Name: Sharon Porter
02 September 2021;Genre: Animals
A Thing Called Snow unfolds as the hare and the fox grow up and await their first winter with this thing called snow. Charmingly illustrated by the author, the pictures really capture the joy of the first realisation of what snow is. My children actually aww-ed at the end when...
