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Name: Jane Rew
04 February 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Rosa is one little bird, one feisty little robin, in fact. If the man can take away her home at the chop of his axe, then, she decides, she can take away his hat at the beat of a wing. And what's more, she can muster other creatures to join her cause: to defend their homes from tree-fellers an...
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Everybody Worries
Name: Maria Faithorn
04 February 2021;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Everybody Worries is engaging from the offset. With a bright, busy front cover you are hooked! Because it's true... everybody worries! It's ok to have worries. Even the bravest, coolest, toughest and smartest people worry. The worry of one person others may find fun, but that'...
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The Tindims and the Turtle Tangle
Name: Sam Phillips
04 February 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
The first Tindims book was lovely, the second one, The Tindims and the Turtle Tangle, is just as lovely! Written by children's author Sally Gardner and made even more appealing with a collection of detailed, fun illustrations by Lydia Corry.When Bottle Mountain bre...
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Name: Kyron Age 10
04 February 2021;Genre: Funny Stories
I rate Mort the Meek 5 stars because Mort liked peace but he had to be a brute and chop his friend's head off! That was quite gruesome to me but I loved it! I would recommend it to adventurous people.
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Name: Beverley Somerset
04 February 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
The Widdershins sisters go from strength to strength in this wonderful book by Michelle Harrison!In A Tangle of Spells, Fliss, Betty and Charlie Widdershins move from Crowstone with their Granny and their father Barney. They are hoping for a new start in the pretty...
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Magpie
Name: Janet Fisher
04 February 2021;Genre: Family & Home
This deceptively slight book tells a story I sincerely hope that most children will never encounter. Alice and her family are on the run from an abusive man whom her mother became involved with, and returned to several times, until he hit Alice which was the wake- up call for her mother. They...
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44 Tiny Acrobats
Name: Lauren Maidman
04 February 2021;Genre: Friends and family
44 Tiny Acrobats is the next instalment from Betsy Bow-Linnet and her 44 tiny African pygmy mice! Betsy has to take her mice to the vets and told to come straight back home, but she gets distracted by the circus in town and cannot resist going inside to see the special guest a...
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The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh
Name: Janet Fisher
04 February 2021;Genre: Funny Stories
Telling a story about someone who has a problem does not always work, often making the reader feel sorry for him/her, which does not always make for a good read. Helen Rutter has overcome this in The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh by making Billy Plimpton into a real hero, who ov...
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Here Be Dragons
Name: Judith Greenall
03 February 2021;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Maybe you have heard stories before featuring a knight, a damsel in distress and a dragon. If so, elements of Here Be Dragons will be familiar, but be prepared for some unexpected and humorous twists. I particularly enjoyed the first double page illustration of the knig...
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Name: Emma Nelson
03 February 2021;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
The Little People, Big Dreams books discuss and explore the lives of outstanding people from across the world. This book concentrates on a young female called Malala, born in Pakistan where she grew up with a passion for education. Witnessing the Taliban destroy schools and the enforcement o...
