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Hello Lighthouse
Name: Lauren Maidman
23 June 2019;Genre: Adventure
Hello Lighthouse is the new story written by Sophie Blackall, author of Hello Winnie. The beautifully written story is about a lighthouse keeper and his time living in a lighthouse. The story starts with a new lighthouse keeper moving in and him getting used to living in a lighthouse, with all th...
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Where Does The Sun Go?
Name: Lizi Backhouse
21 June 2019;Genre: Adventure
The TechTots stem science books make scientific processes accessible for young children and answer questions about science. In this book, the tech toys wonder where the sun goes? They conduct an experiment using a torch, a globe and a flag to illustrate how the earth rotates giving us night and...
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Why Do We Poo?
Name: Lizi Backhouse
21 June 2019;Genre: Adventure
The TechTots stem science books make scientific processes accessible for young children. In this book, the tech toys learn about how poo is made and why it's important. They do their own experiment using a pair of tights to explain the process - this is great for visually explaining how the bo...
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Mouse's Big Day
Name: Lizi Backhouse
21 June 2019;Genre: Adventure
From the illustrator of What the Ladybird Heard, Mouse's Big Day follows mouse as she starts at Twit Twoo school. Initially reluctant and convinced she doesn't like school, Mouse doesn't join in with the hunt to find something special outside. The other animals carry mouse back to school where t...
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Life: The First Four Billion Years
Name: Heather Bignold
20 June 2019;Genre: Adventure
As the title suggests, this book covers the myriad of life forms that have existed on earth since the very beginning. Written by conservation biologist Martin Jenkins and illustrated by Greenaway Medal-winning Grahame Baker-Smith, this is a beautiful, large-format book. The illustrations could...
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When We Became Humans
Name: Bryony Davies
19 June 2019;Genre: Adventure
When We Became Humans by Michael Bright is a large format illustrated non fiction text covering the development of the human species from prehistory to modern times. The text clearly introduces the species related to Homo Sapiens and shows how different groups have been classified. Bright's cle...
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Paper Planes
Name: Kyle Matravers
16 June 2019;Genre: Adventure
Mia and Ben are the very best of friends and have grown up doing everything together, but their particular favourite thing to do is making paper planes. Their whole year revolves around them folding paper to create their planes, each one designed with the ultimate goal of one day drifting across...
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The Snow Lion
Name: Kyle Matravers
16 June 2019;Genre: Adventure
The Snow Lion centers around a young girl called Caro who has relocated to a new home and new town with her mum. Understandably, Caro is feeling a mix of emotions as she tries to settle in a place where she doesn't know anyone. Then one day, whilst exploring the house further, Caro hears a de...
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The Usborne Book of the Moon
Name: Kyle Matravers
16 June 2019;Genre: Adventure
The Usborne book of the Moon has been published with the 50th anniversary of the moon landing in mind. Aimed at primary aged children, this text (written by Laura Cowan) helps children develop a better understand of the moon. The book starts in a more traditional fiction text way, but then mo...
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What is the Moon?
Name: Kyle Matravers
16 June 2019;Genre: Adventure
What is the Moon? has been published to coincide with and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Perfect for little minds with big questions, this book does very well in sharing scientific knowledge about the moon which is easy to understand and decipher. The lay out of the text i...
