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The Prehistoric Times
Name: Sam Phillips
21 May 2018;Genre: Adventure
The Prehistoric Times gives its reader an insight to the age of the dinosaur, providing a light-hearted overview of the species in its unique newspaper format. With easy access to smart phones, tablets and laptops, I no longer have the need to read a 'real newspaper'. The days when most families...
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Explorer: Bugs!
Name: Emily Marcuccilli
21 May 2018;Genre: Adventure
This book is part of a series published in association with the Natural History. Already familiar with the tremendous Wallbooks from What On Earth Publishing, I was eager to dive into this new series to find out more about this new offering. The style is delightfully retro; the reader is swiftly...
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The Truth of Different Skies
Name: Clair Bossons
21 May 2018;Genre: Adventure
I love, love, loved this book! It was devoured in one sitting. The Truth of Different Skies is a prequel to The Loneliness of Distant Beings and The Glow of Fallen Stars and somehow I had missed out on reading these books when they were released. I am longing to read the rest of the series now....
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The Oceanic Times
Name: Jacqueline Harris
18 May 2018;Genre: Adventure
As soon as you see the jazzy and humorous front cover, this is a book you want to pick up and look at. It is a cross between a non-fiction, newspaper and activity book, with the headline 'All the news from under the sea'. Using only one colour, blue of course, it covers a large assortment of int...
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Goodbye, Perfect
Name: Joanna Hewish
17 May 2018;Genre: Friends and family
Wow! Powerful, engaging and a hard-hitting. Sara Barnard (author) once again has created an incredible tale that feels so real, I thought I was reading the real account. Goodbye, Perfect tells the tale of Eden and her best friend Bonnie. Eden (narrator) has her life com...
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Joan Proctor, Dragon Doctor
Name: Linda Brown
17 May 2018;Genre: Adventure
What a delightful book about a pioneering young woman from the 1920's. This story is about Joan Proctor who, during the First World War, became the first woman reptile curator at the National History Museum in London. Fascinated by reptiles from an early age, Joan wasn't interested in the normal...
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Elizabeth and Zenobia
Name: Emily Age 10
16 May 2018;Genre: Adventure
I love this book because Elizabeth is timid and Zenobia is outgoing. When the girls arrive at Witheringe House something is in need of their help.
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The Chocolate Factory Ghost
Name: Emily Age 10
16 May 2018;Genre: Adventure
I liked this book because it's a mystery and mysteries are one of my favourite type of book. When Archie arrives at his new home, Honeystone Hall, things are not as they seem.
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The Children of Castle Rock
Name: Emily Age 10
16 May 2018;Genre: Adventure
When Alice, Jesse and Fergus go on the Great Orienteering Challenge, Alice sees her chance to venture onto the island of Nish.
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The Creature
Name: Louise Gahan
15 May 2018;Genre: Adventure
Fast-moving, exciting, visually stunning; The Creature is a book is storytelling at its simplest. Young children will be inspired by its simplicity and be motivated to recreate the story with their own ideas. A story about a a purple creature which found its way into a home and which grew and gr...