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  • Medusa Gorgon's Bad Hair Day

    Medusa Gorgon's Bad Hair Day

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    15 August 2025;

    Genre: Myths & Legends

    Medusa Gorgon works for the goddess, Athena, as a guardian in her temple. To help with her fiery temper, Medusa's best friend, Arachne, has suggested she keeps a diary as an outlet to process her feelings. But when Medusa angers Athena and is banished to the 21st century to retrieve Athena's s...

  • How to Tame a Mummy Monster

    How to Tame a Mummy Monster

    Name: Maria
    15 August 2025;

    Genre: Family & Home

    How to tame a Mummy Monster is a funny story with an important message about family life and siblings. The front cover depicts two angry children and a huge, blue monster and definitely makes the reader inquisitive about what is going on and why there is a blue monster. <p...

  • Max and Chaffy: What a Delicious Discovery!

    Max & Chaffy: What a Delicious Discovery!

    Name: Lauren Maidman
    15 August 2025;

    Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

    Max &amp; Chaffy is the new series from Jamie Smart, creator of Bunny vs. Monkey. What a Delicious Discovery follows Max and Chaffy on a new adventure to Food Island to help their baker friend, Crumbles. However, when they reach the island chaos ensues, as today is the...

  • University of Cambridge: Think Big: The Speed of Light

    University of Cambridge: Think Big: The Speed of Light

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    15 August 2025;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Following Secrets of Bees, this is the second book in this series which explores big ideas, inspiring curiosity and encouraging enquiring minds. Written...

  • A Totally Big Umbrella: A reassuring story about conquering anxiety

    A Totally Big Umbrella

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    15 August 2025;

    Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

    When the rain spoils Talulah's dress and makes her favourite biscuits go all soggy, it ruins everything. So she decides to protect herself against it. Armed with an umbrella, she feels better for a little while, even though she is not able to join in with some of the things her friends are doi...

  • Keisha Jones is a Force of Nature!

    Keisha Jones is a Force of Nature!

    Name: Dylan Age 8
    15 August 2025;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    Amazing book, it's so inspiring you should read it. It is a message to stop climate change.

  • Bad United: Fast as Lightning

    Bad United: Fast as Lightning

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    15 August 2025;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    Fast as Lightening is the latest instalment in the Bad United Series. Louise Forshaw continues the series with this brilliantly written graphic novel. The page designs with different layouts and illustration sizes add interest and the limited language and well...

  • Gloam: A Times Children's Book of the Week

    Gloam

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    14 August 2025;

    Genre: Horror

    Since the death of their mother, Gwen and her younger brother and twin sisters have been left with their step-father, Henry. Instead of thinking about how things have changed, she focuses on looking after her family until they move to The House, the former home of their late grandmother. When...

  • Brave Bears Don't Get Scared

    Brave Bears Don't Get Scared

    Name: Lizi Backhouse
    14 August 2025;

    Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

    What a gorgeous book! This beautifully illustrated book features lots of scary creatures - bears, porcupines, dragons and scorpions included - who surely aren't scared of anything...are they? Brave Bears Don't Get Scared provides a gentle introduction for talking to chi...

  • Dungeon Runners: Ocean Chase

    Dungeon Runners: Ocean Chase

    Name: Jane Rew
    14 August 2025;

    Genre: Fantasy

    For those unfamiliar with Dungeon Runners, there are some initial, helpful introductions at the start of the third book in the series, Dungeon Runners Level 3: Ocean Chase; to the commentators, to our regular heroes Kit, Thorn and Sandy,...