Latest Reviews
Filter:
-
New Kid On Deck: Pirate Academy #1
Name: Elen Green
12 March 2024;Genre: Adventure
What a great start to what promises to be a fun, adventure-filled series, Pirate Academy. In New Kid on Deck we're introduced to a strongly bonded group of children who are training to be - pirates! I love the concept and know many young readers will be hooke...
-
Goddess Crown
Name: Julie Broadbent
11 March 2024;Genre: Fantasy
This YA fantasy debut novel by Shade Lapite has it all; it is a beautiful love story, it has murder, intrigue, plot twists and despicable villains. Set in the imaged country of Galla, we are introduced to our heroine and the main protagonist of the story, Kalothia. She...
-
The Tree and the River
Name: Wendy Kelly
11 March 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
What an extraordinary book. Entirely wordless, The Tree and the River looks at a particular place in space and time. A verdant landscape, with a winding river and an elegant mature tree. Turn the page, and there is the same scene except a house is now being constructed next to...
-
The Wilderness
Name: Wendy Kelly
11 March 2024;Genre: Adventure
Remember Lemoney Snicket and his Series of Unfortunate Events? The Wilderness has the same sort of tone and approach, as an unseen narrator tells the story and explains key vocabulary relating to the rather splendid Vasylenko family. Mum and Dad and 11 of their 12 child...
-
Footprint
Name: Jacqueline Harris
11 March 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Footprint is all about appreciating the beauty and wonder of nature. Children walk across the pages and look at the changing scenery and just stop to take it all in. The places that they go range from the snow-covered Arctic to a jungle, but in each place they stop and 'just b...
-
The Cloud Thief
Name: Sue Wilsher
09 March 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Withering-on-the-Sand-Sea, like many other villages, is dependent on cloud deliveries from the Cloud Factory for its survival. With rising prices and smaller clouds, Mara and the other villagers are finding life harder. Worried about Old Bern, who is suffering from the Thwart, Mara overhears a...
-
The Magician Next Door
Name: Sue Wilsher
09 March 2024;Genre: Magical Realism
Callie and her father have moved away from London, away from her friends, away from her memories. Struggling to settle into her new life in Northern Ireland, she is staring out of her window one night, unable to sleep, when a loud BOOM announces the arrival of an upside-down house in her back...
-
Where the Heart Should Be
Name: Clare Wilkins
08 March 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
All of Crossan's books are deeply affecting, totally immersive and utterly unforgettable and Where the Heart Should Be is no exception. Where the Heart Should Be is the story of lowly scullery maid Nell and Johnny, English heir to his Uncle's estate in...
-
The Cloud Thief
Name: Rachel Bolton
08 March 2024;Genre: Fantasy
The Cloud Thief is a gentle fantasy adventure with a big heart. The story begins in Withering-on-the-Sand-Sea, where rain is in such short supply that the town must pay for clouds to be delivered. When Mara discovers that a cloud might also help cure Old Bern, she sets out to...
-
Secrets of the Snakestone
Name: Louisa Farrow
08 March 2024;Genre: Adventure
Zélie Dutta may be able to crush the head of a cobra with a bare heel, lick her elbow and peel a banana with her toes, but for all that she is stuck working as a maid in Paris where all the other servants think she is a witch. She has never fully understood why she has been shipped there from...
