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Name: Lucy Newton
28 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This story is filled with pictures of beautiful landscapes and lovely cartoon animals. It has relatively simple text while giving interesting information about a range of animals, climates and landscapes from different environments across the world. It is a lovely book for children to begin to ex...

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Name: Lucy Newton
28 August 2017;

Genre: Humour

A fantastically colourful book! Nibbles: The Dinosaur Guide follows Nibbles, a book eating 'monster', as he comes across a range of other similar creatures on his travels. Nibbles is responsible for lots of different holes that begin to appear throughout the book - he just can...

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Name: Joanna Hewish
28 August 2017;

Engaging, creative with a great moral for young children, this is a really well thought out narrative for toddlers and pre-schoolers. Clanton (author) has really hit the nail on the head with this lovely tale of someone who is new and how hard it can be to fit in sometimes. My son (3 years old...

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Name: Joanna Hewish
28 August 2017;

A pleasant surprise! When I first flicked through this picture book in order to assess its suitability for my 2 year old, I didn't think she would be very engaged with it, as the dialogue and narrative is very limited. However, my daughter was immediately taken with the beautiful pictures and s...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
26 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

'Change the Shape' is a book that certainly makes you think. I found myself lost within its instructions, determined to complete each challenge set for me. I could certainly see this book being enjoyed by individuals buy also by a whole class. In school, this book can be used for many reason...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
26 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

'Find the Wolf' is another great 'peek through' book by Agnese Baruzzi. Being a board book, it easily withstood the initial browsing by my one year son and I can see this book being revisited when he is slightly older as there are many levels to it. The book follows the pattern of looking for...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
26 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Hidden Animals is a lovely board book that would be perfect for any first book collection. The combination of colours, shapes and animals make this book both an enjoyable read but also an educational one. As the reader, it was easy to follow the pattern of 'Now you see / Then you see ...' and...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
25 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Crododali introduces himself as 'the greatest artist in the whole wide world' and requires your help to make a masterpiece! This picture book talks directly to the reader, asking you to interact with the pages by tilting, shaking and blowing the book. As you turn each page, you see what your...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
25 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

What an absolute joy to read! This fantastic picture book tells the tale of one little girls battle to try and not eat a cake....one that doesn't go too well... Philip's story is funny and has a simple rhyme scheme which makes it fun to read. Funny for both adults and children, the little gi...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
25 August 2017;

Genre: Adventure

The Little People, Big Dreams series is a selection of charming books that tell the stories of outstanding people, from artists to scientists. Each story begins with the person as a child with a dream (hence the title of the series!) and this one tells about the life of Emmeline Pankhurst. The...

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