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  • Coco Chanel

    Little People, Big Dreams: Coco Chanel

    Name: Lizi Coombs
    21 March 2016;

    Genre: Adventure

    The 'Little People, Big Dreams' series is a collection of beautifully bound books that tell the stories of many famous faces. The series says that, through them, children will 'Discover the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists. All of them achieved incredible thi...

  • Mabrook! A World of Muslim Weddings

    Mabrook! A World of Muslim Weddings

    Name: Emily Beale
    21 March 2016;

    Genre: Adventure

    Have you ever been to a Muslim wedding? Have you wondered if people from the same Muslim faith around the world celebrate differently? Mabrook! is a beautiful picture book reflection on the colours, sights and sounds witnessed during Muslim wedding celebrations throughout the world. Na'ima Robert...

  • Quick Quack Quentin

    Quick Quack Quentin

    Name: Marie Berry
    19 March 2016;

    Genre: Adventure

    I fell in love with this book immediately, both as a teacher and as a mother. From the same pairing that brought us 'Oi Frog', Quick Quack Quentin tells the humourous tale of Quentin the duck who has a quick 'quck' after he loses the A out of his quack. The story shows Quentin searching through...

  • William Shakespeare: Scenes from the life of the world's greatest writer

    William Shakespeare: Scenes from the life of the world's greatest writer

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    19 March 2016;

    Genre: Adventure

    The life of William Shakespeare, from birth to grave, is a brilliantly told in words and pictures. Simon Callow's quote on the cover says it all; this is 'a perfect introduction to the real Shakespeare'. Packed with information about Elizabethan life as well as the man himself, Mick Manning and B...

  • Witch Watch

    Witch Watch

    Name: Kerra Dagley
    18 March 2016;

    Genre: Fantasy

    The third book in the series, Witch Watch sees our witchy heroine Tiga Whicabim ready to set off in search for her missing mother in the Silver City. However, just as she's getting ready to leave, colour starts to return into the black and white world of Sinkville. First, in t...

  • Boy X

    Boy X

    Name: Kerra Dagley
    18 March 2016;

    Genre: Adventure

    Summed up in three words by the publishers as 'Action', Survival, Terror', I'd have to agree. I read this book in one sitting, I just had to find out what would happen to Ash before I put it down. The book opens with Ash McCarthy, returning home after his dad's funeral, before he wakes up in a s...

  • Unstoppable Max

    Unstoppable Max

    Name: Marie Berry
    15 March 2016;

    Genre: Adventure

    I really enjoyed Unstoppable Max. Is this really an insight into our children's thought patterns when we send them up to get ready for bed??? The story is about a little boy, Max, who has a huge amount of energy. But when he is given three tasks to do at bedtime - tidy his toys, put on clean pyj...

  • A Storey Street novel: Superhero Street

    Superhero Street

    Name: Kerra Dagley
    14 March 2016;

    Genre: Adventure

    Superhero Street is the second novel from author Phil Earle, his first was Demolition Dad. Illustrations by Sara Ogilvie really bring the action to life with hilarious accuracy. Fans of Roald Dahl, Liz Pichon and David Walliams will love this! In the story, Michael J Mouse is so desperate to be...

  • Beetle Boy

    Beetle Boy

    Name: Kerra Dagley
    14 March 2016;

    Genre: Adventure

    Beetleboy is the first of a trilogy of books written by debut author M G Leonard who says: 'Ever since I was little I've been frightened of creepy-crawlies. Then I found out that beetles can be pretty, brightly coloured, even gold. Others are as strong as the Incredible Hulk....

  • Dreaming the Bear

    Dreaming the Bear

    Name: Caroline Downie
    14 March 2016;

    Genre: Adventure

    Darcy has been taken from the shopping streets of London to live with her naturalist father in the wilderness that is Yellowstone Park. Surrounded by snow and with no mobile phone signal she feels totally isolated. And to make thing worse she has some mystery illness that means she is tired and u...