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Name: Julie Broadbent
27 August 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Challenge Everything - An Extinction Rebellion Youth Guide to saving the planet is written by the young activist Blue Sandford. She was named by The Times as a 'British Greta Thunberg' and one of the UK's most impressive youth activists. It is the only official youth handbook from Extinction R...
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The Girl Who Became a Tree: A Story Told in Poems
Name: Joanna Hewish
27 August 2020;Genre: Poetry
The Girl Who Became a Tree: A Story Told in Poems is tragically beautiful and a story that will stay with you for a long time to come. Told completely through a range of poetic devices, this story stands out as original and moving as it interweaves the story of the main chara...
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Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
Name: Lucy Georgeson
27 August 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
It is August in Paris and budding art historian Khayyam should be having the time of her life - but even in the City of Lights she can't stop worrying about the mess she left back home in Chicago. Only when she meets a cute young Parisian - who happens to have the same name and be a distant re...
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Name: Sam Phillips
20 August 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
Written by Professor Steve Peters, the author of The Chimp Paradox, this fab book is aimed at helping children to understand and manage their thoughts emotions and behaviours My Hidden Chimp is an easy to read book, complete with colourful illustrations, that encourages its reader to explore t...
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Name: Jo Clarke
20 August 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
I imagine the challenge to create a book about neuroscience which is aimed at children would not be an easy one and yet My Hidden Chimp does an excellent job of making a complex concept understandable and relatable. The concept behind My Hidden Chimp is that, if children were...
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Name: Alison Kelly
20 August 2020;Genre: Poetry
Shauna Darling Robinson's Saturday at the Imaginarium entices the readers to let their imaginations run wild. The collection opens with 'Open Wide' in which we are invited to 'Imagine if swallowing / were real - / if we truly / took things in / through our mouths / and...
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If I had a unicorn
Name: Joanna Hewish
20 August 2020;Genre: Picture Books
What pet does every little girl dream of owning? A Unicorn. My 5 year old believes that if she wishes hard enough, she might just wake up and have a unicorn lying at the foot of her bed. If I had a unicorn explores the imagination of every small child and what it might be like...
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Raybearer
Name: Julie Broadbent
18 August 2020;Genre: Fantasy
Raybearer, a debut novel by Jordan Ifueko, is a fast-paced, fantasy adventure tale. From the outset we are totally immersed into the world which our main character and heroine Tarisai inhabits.Tarisai has always longed to have a close relationship with her mysterio...
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Name: Louisa Farrow
15 August 2020;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
In Siri the Viking: Mimirs Well, Siri, the smart and feisty daughter of a Viking chieftain returns for another comic book adventure with her friend Zack who's nearly, but not quite, as smart and feisty as Siri herself. This time, they are on the trail of lost treasure. They ne...
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Name: Alison Kelly
12 August 2020;Genre: Poetry
Years ago I attended a poetry workshop led by Mandy Coe. She asked us to think of as many words as we could that associate with 'snow'. We did this with enthusiasm. Then she suggested we write a poem on the topic without using any of the words! A great idea that I have shared many times. And i...
