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Name: Ellen Green
29 January 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Penguins are perfectly polite creatures - until they aren't... This picture book follows a bunch of beautifully behaved penguins until they are inspired by naughty penguin Polly to misbehave and to be very naughty indeed - talking with their mouths full, not waiting their turn and interrupting pe...

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Name: Alice Bell
29 January 2019;

Genre: Animals

Kiss the Crocodile is a fun read for young children, introducing them to jeopardy and reminding me of the kinds of playground games - like What's the Time, Mr Wolf - where they love to be scared! Three friends, Monkey, Anteater and Tortoise have games they love to play,...

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Name: Ellen Green
29 January 2019;

Genre: Animals

Pampered cat Jimi-My-Jim is feeling - well - flat. Jimi has everything - the best food, plenty of toys and of course all the attention he could want from his owner, Sophie. But Jimi wants more - he yearns for adventure but is trapped indoors, inside their apartment. Jimi feels flat, and with each...

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Name: Ellen Green
29 January 2019;

'Nee nar nee nar nee nar....' Which three year old wouldn't love sharing the sounds across these pages as they explore the job of the ambulance crew. 'Beep, beep. Emergency! News just through: Crash, crash, there's been a crash. Let's go, crew!" and the team gathers to head for the latest emergen...

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Name: Lucy Georgeson
29 January 2019;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall, is cursed. Forced to repeat the autumn of his 18th year over and over, he can only be freed by love. But at the end of each autumn he is transformed into a beast hell-bent on destruction, and after so many failed attempts, his kingdom and its people are bare...

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Name: Linda Brown
29 January 2019;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Over the years there have been many retellings of the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast. This is what the author wanted to complete and she has managed it, but with a much darker theme woven into the love story. A Curse So Dark and Lonely is simply enchanting and well worth...

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Name: Alison Kelly
28 January 2019;

Genre: Poetry

The idea of words arranged to form a shape stretches back to ancient times. There are examples from Greek Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE, where words have been shaped to form an egg, wings and pan pipes. It's a very natural form to have been adopted by children's poets with its im...

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Name: Lola Age 11
28 January 2019;

Genre: Fantasy

I liked this book because of the mysteries - it shows that magic doesn't just solve problems. Many people believe Tilly is just seeing things when she says she has seen Alice from Alice in Wonderland and Anne from Anne of Green Gables - then she discovers the Book Wanderers...

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Name: Lucy Georgeson
28 January 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Charlie hopes that the school ski trip will be the escape from his unhappy home life he so desperately needs. But there is something wrong with the remote ski village of Kaldgellan. Something is out there, something ancient and evil, among the pines and the deep untracked drifts, watching and wai...

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Name: Catherine Age 10
27 January 2019;

Genre: Adventure

I like this book because tons of events happen and surprises pop up along the way. It was filled with secrets and it was soooo good - I found it hard to put the book down.

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