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A Walk Through Nature
Name: Nikki Stiles
12 May 2019;Genre: Adventure
Celebrate the wonders of the natural world with this fascinating book, jam packed with facts about natures habitats, creatures and seasonal changes. This beautiful book encourages an enthusiasm about the natural world. Each double page spread with interactive gatefolds focuses on a different to...
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The Sea: Exploring Our Blue Planet
Name: Rhiannon Cook
11 May 2019;Genre: Adventure
For fans of Nicola Davies, Yuval Zommer, Laura Knowles and Vicky Woodgate, The Sea: Exploring Our Blue Planet is a vibrant investigation of underwater habitats across the world. Packed with information about environments - from marshes and shipwrecks to the deep ocean - Miranda Krestovnikoff's pa...
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The Suitcase
Name: Lucy Newton
10 May 2019;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
The Suitcase is all about making new friends, particularly with those that seem different from you, and deciding whether to believe tales that people tell you. As a strange animal approaches a group of friends, he tells them all about the magical things he has in his su...
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The Slightly Annoying Elephant
Name: Max
09 May 2019;Genre: Adventure
Absolutely fantastic loved it when I read it at school - I bet other schools would like it
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Fierce Fragile Hearts
Name: Sharon Bolton
08 May 2019;Genre: Friends and family
Another fantastic title from Sara Barnard, Fierce Fragile Hearts is the follow-up to Beautiful Broken Things. It picks up the story two years after Suzanne leaves Brighton and this time is told from her perspective. After re...
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In Focus... Forests
Name: Lucy Newton
07 May 2019;Genre: Adventure
What an informative book! This would be a great resource for children learning about forests in a topic at school or just for children who are keen to learn about the natural environment. Topics include the Black Forest, the Anatomy of Trees, Rainforests, National Parks, Kelp Forests, Forest Myt...
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Wilfred and Olbert's Epic Prehistoric Adventure
Name: Lucy Newton
07 May 2019;Genre: Adventure
Another brilliant adventure, puzzle book with Wilfred and Olbert! This book is set out in a very similar way to Wilfred and Olbert's Totally Wild Chase, however, instead of visiting different environments around the world, this time the characters venture back through thousands of years of histor...
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The Great Big Book of Life
Name: Lucy Newton
07 May 2019;Genre: Adventure
What a fantastic book! The Great Big Book of Life includes different sections of information on each stage of life from being a baby to dying. Each section has incredible detail include covering how babies clap their hands, blow bubbles and chuckle with pleasure before turning into children who a...
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Poetry Zone: A Celebration of 20 years of Children's Poetry
Name: Alison Kelly
06 May 2019;Genre: Adventure
This lovely volume of poetry celebrates the Poetry Zone's 20th birthday. Established by Roger Stevens, the website offers a safe forum for children and teenagers to publish their poems. Over its 20 years it has been visited more than a million times and has published around 30,000 poems. This w...
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I am a Jigsaw
Name: Alison Kelly
06 May 2019;Genre: Adventure
In his introduction to I am a Jigsaw, Roger Stevens welcomes the reader to 'a book full of puzzling poems and words that would rather play hide-and-seek than be sensible and sit in a chair to be read quietly'. What a lovely, apt welcome this is! Stevens goes on to tell us that riddle and puzzle p...
