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Cinders and Sparks: Magic at Midnight
Name: Mandy Abel
29 July 2019;Genre: Adventure
Cinders lives with her father, who works as a builder for King Picklebottom, and her stepmother, who is bossy and boring. She doesn't really get on well with her stepsisters - Cinders likes reading, arts and crafts, and playing outside in the forest. She doesn't mind getting messy at all; in fact...
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Vocabulary Ninja
Name: Kate Geraets
28 July 2019;Genre: Adventure
I love words. I love reading them, learning them, learning about them. I like playing with them and stringing them together to see how they sound. I like to share this love with my children and the children I work with. I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up Vocabulary Ninja but all I can...
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The Mole and the Hole
Name: James Hewish
27 July 2019;Genre: Adventure
This is the first picture book that I have read from Brayden Kowalczuk and I will endeavour to ensure that it will not be the last. It was brilliant. The author, who also produced the beautiful illustrations in this book, is also a Disney character artist, so it is no wonder the characters are s...
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The Wind in the Wall
Name: Lorraine Ansell
25 July 2019;Genre: Adventure
The Wind in the Wall is a strange book at first: you are unsure where the tale is going to take you, but this is what I enjoyed as there is intrigue and mystery throughout. With foundations in fairytales, folklore and myth, the story enchants the reader and I found myself hypnotised by the accomp...
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Cloud Forest
Name: Carol Carter
25 July 2019;Genre: Adventure
Cloud Forest is a powerful, moving and important picture book on the themes of love and loss and the potential of memories and stories to help us through. In a magical dream-like landscape, a nameless child listens to Umpa weave words into stories, and stories into adventures. Travelling on trai...
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Cinders and Sparks: Magic at Midnight
Name: Carol Carter
25 July 2019;Genre: Adventure
Cinders and Sparks: Magic at Midnight is a fantastic riff on the traditional Cinderella tale. While the first chapter starts off reasonably conventionally, with a bossy stepmother, annoying sisters and Cinders desperate to attend the palace ball, things quickly fly off on a hilarious tangent. T...
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Warrior Monkeys and the Volcano Adventure
Name: Carol Carter
24 July 2019;Genre: Adventure
Warrior Monkeys and the Volcano Adventure is the first in a new series of martial arts adventures aimed at 7-9 year-olds. Set at a monkey martial arts school in the Shanti Islands, we are immediately introduced to the large cast of characters including brave but reckless Suki and her more cautiou...
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Clem and Crab
Name: Mandy Abel
23 July 2019;Genre: Environment & Nature
Clem and her older sister live a bus ride away from the seaside, so they go to the beach every weekend. Clem's sister likes to sit on their beach hut verandah to read and dream, while Clem enjoys beachcombing, searching for shells, pretty stones, pieces of sea glass and other treasure. Clem al...
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Rabbit Races Ahead
Name: Katrina Smith
23 July 2019;Genre: Adventure
The children in my class wrote: "I liked this book and my favourite part was when Rabbit was really kind to all of the other animals in a race to help them win. I learnt that you don't have to win everything for people to like you"; "I like the book because at first Rabbit was mean but at the end...
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Space Race
Name: Megan Age 11
23 July 2019;Genre: Information books
This books is about how and why we first went into space. It is an immersive experience telling the awe-inspiring story of space exploration to date, it looks both back and forwards. This book is accompanied by an app allowing the reading to explore videos, diagrams and 3D models through augmente...
