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  • The B on Your Thumb: 60 Poems to Boost Reading and Spelling

    Name: James Hewish
    01 September 2020;

    Genre: Poetry

    The B on your thumb is an absolute masterpiece. It is an assortment of superbly written, humorous poems that address spelling patterns, phonics, homophones, silent letters and more. It is aimed at children between 3 and 7 years old and will almost certainly be conducive in boosting a child's r...

  • Sticky Pines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy

    Stickypines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy

    Name: Dawn Woods
    01 September 2020;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Lucy lives with her parents in Sticky Pines - a remote town away from big cities and phone signals, surrounded by woods and wildlife and the factory which provides work for nearby residents. Lucy is convinced UFOs are real and would like to prove it to those who disbelieve and humour her. So o...

  • Challenge Everything: An Extinction Rebellion Youth guide to saving the planet

    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...

  • The Girl Who Became a Tree: A Story Told in Poems

    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...

  • Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

    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...

  • My Hidden Chimp: The new book from the author of The Chimp Paradox

    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...

  • My Hidden Chimp: The new book from the author of The Chimp Paradox

    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...

  • Saturdays at the Imaginarium

    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...

  • If I had a unicorn

    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...

  • Raybearer: The epic and phenomenal New York Times bestselling YA fantasy

    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...