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Don't Mess with Duck!
Name: Joanna Hewish
31 March 2020;Genre: Friends and family
A laugh out loud story with an important message - teaching young children how to share.The front cover of this picture book immediately engaged my children as they commented that Duck looks fierce and he was likely to have a battle with frog. We were all pleasantly surprised to fi...
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Wink
Name: Dan Katz
31 March 2020;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Ross Maloy wants nothing more than to be normal - to hang out with his friends and play computer games. But his world is rocked when he wakes one morning with a massively swollen eye, which turns out to be an incredibly rare form a cancer.Wink follows Ross's journe...
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Dragon Detective: Catnapped!
Name: Samantha Phillips
30 March 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
This first book in the Dragon Detective series by Gareth P Jones was originally published in 2006, since then it has been tweaked, updated and re-released for a new audience earlier this year (2020). This first book in the series, Dragon Detective: Catnapped!, introduce...
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Willow Wildthing and the Swamp Monster
Name: Carol Carter
30 March 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Willow Wildthing and the Swamp Monster is the first in a new series adventure stories for younger readers from renowned storyteller Gill Lewis.Willow is finding life tough - new house, new town, brother ill in hospital, and she keeps hearing a terrifying howling in...
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Wink
Name: Rhiannon Cook
29 March 2020;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
All Ross wants is to live a 'normal' life; hang out with his best friends Abby and Isaac; go to school; crush on popular girl Sarah Kennedy and avoid school bully Jimmy. However, a rare form of cancer puts an end to any kind of normal Ross had and, as his life begins to change, so do the perce...
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The Bat Book
Name: Jenny Caddick
29 March 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
An engaging and easy to navigate Non Fiction book that is beautifully illustrated throughout with detailed, eye-catching drawings of bats and their habitats. The Bat Book has a well-designed layout with bold captions and sub headings . The bat facts are chunked into ap...
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Poems Aloud
Name: Lizi Backhouse
28 March 2020;Genre: Poetry
This vibrant book aims to get children performing poems, alone, with friends and in large groups. It's a fantastic introduction to a wide range of different poems - free verse, riddles, rhyming poems to name but a few. There are poems that personify, poems to be read by more than one person, e...
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The Bad Day
Name: Lizi Backhouse
28 March 2020;Genre: Personal Growth
Squirrel and his friends - Woodpecker, Snake, Turtle and Fox - are all having a bad day with things not going to plan at all, although Mouse's day turns out to be worse than all of them. however, when the friends team up together, they manage to change each other's luck. This is a lovel...
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Little People, Big Dreams: Astrid Lindgren
Name: Lizi Backhouse
28 March 2020;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
The Little People Big Dreams series of books are great for introducing younger readers to outstanding people, from artists to scientists, throughout history and the modern day. All achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream.This one is...
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The Story of Inventions
Name: Bryony Davies
26 March 2020;Genre: Adventure
The Story of Inventions by Catherine Barr and Steve Williams, illustrated by Amy Husband, covers some of the most famous and used inventions throughout history. This highly visual book is organised chronologically from the invention of the wheel to the invention of the internet. Each invention...
