Latest Book Reviews
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National Trust: When Spring Comes is a perfect book for explaining to pre-schooler the seasonal changes that happen throughout the year....
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RUUMBLE! is our first Usborne Slider Sound Book in this house and the other books in this series are now firm favourites...
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Brightly coloured illustrations show a family spreading festive cheer as they perform twelve simple acts of kindness in the days before Christmas. Each sp...
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My First Story Orchestra brings us Four Seasons in One Day. My toddler and I have REALLY enjoyed such a different and musical tak...
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Flagged as 'a perfect book for Easter', Bouncing Bunnies is a lovely engaging picture book, and perfect to share with young children at a...
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Friends Forever is a pitch-perfect story about friendship for very young children, bursting with vibrancy and energy. A young monkey wan...
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National Trust: When Spring Comes is a perfect book for explaining to pre-schooler the seasonal changes that happen throughout the year....
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RUUMBLE! is our first Usborne Slider Sound Book in this house and the other books in this series are now firm favourites...
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Brightly coloured illustrations show a family spreading festive cheer as they perform twelve simple acts of kindness in the days before Christmas. Each sp...
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My First Story Orchestra brings us Four Seasons in One Day. My toddler and I have REALLY enjoyed such a different and musical tak...
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Flagged as 'a perfect book for Easter', Bouncing Bunnies is a lovely engaging picture book, and perfect to share with young children at a...
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Friends Forever is a pitch-perfect story about friendship for very young children, bursting with vibrancy and energy. A young monkey wan...
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If you are looking for a fun tongue twister, look no further that The Bear and the Hare and the Fair. This rhyming story is full of <stro...
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The Rabbit, The Cloud and the Rainy Day is brought to us by the creator of the VERY well-known <a href="/books/the-rabbit-the-dark-and-th...
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Basil the bat doesn't believe that he can fly. Encouraged by his friend, Moth, and the rest of the fruit bats, he tries and tries, but with no luck. Howev...
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Gerda and Orlo share a wonderful friendship. Kind and wise, Orlo always has time to listen to, and spend time with, young Gerda, but then things change. G...
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Teeny Tiny Science: I See a Cloud is the answer to every child's question of 'Why does it rain?'. Cleverly written using simple sentences...
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A child moves to a new house and is worried about making new friends. How long will it take? What games will they want to play? Will they have their own i...
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If you are looking for a fun tongue twister, look no further that The Bear and the Hare and the Fair. This rhyming story is full of <stro...
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The Rabbit, The Cloud and the Rainy Day is brought to us by the creator of the VERY well-known <a href="/books/the-rabbit-the-dark-and-th...
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Basil the bat doesn't believe that he can fly. Encouraged by his friend, Moth, and the rest of the fruit bats, he tries and tries, but with no luck. Howev...
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Gerda and Orlo share a wonderful friendship. Kind and wise, Orlo always has time to listen to, and spend time with, young Gerda, but then things change. G...
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Teeny Tiny Science: I See a Cloud is the answer to every child's question of 'Why does it rain?'. Cleverly written using simple sentences...
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A child moves to a new house and is worried about making new friends. How long will it take? What games will they want to play? Will they have their own i...
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Part of the Let’s Talk… series, It's OK to Say No is a well considered, reassuring book which introduces children to the idea of consent and perso...
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Tissues at the ready because The Bear-Shaped Hole will make you go all misty-eyed at the end. Gerda is a small bear who has a great frien...
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A nice little book that can be used to start a conversation around lots of different issues related to children's friendships. On the face of it, ...
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I Am Strong Just Being Me was just the book that I was looking for to read to Y3 and Y4 in our weekly story assembly. I was looking for a...
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Ajay and the Red-Wing Prince is the latest book in the brilliant Woodland Explorers Club series by the hugely talented E...
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This is a very big concept for such a slim book. It starts with a little girl musing about what the word 'strong' means. She thinks hard but can't come up...
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Part of the Let’s Talk… series, It's OK to Say No is a well considered, reassuring book which introduces children to the idea of consent and perso...
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Tissues at the ready because The Bear-Shaped Hole will make you go all misty-eyed at the end. Gerda is a small bear who has a great frien...
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A nice little book that can be used to start a conversation around lots of different issues related to children's friendships. On the face of it, ...
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I Am Strong Just Being Me was just the book that I was looking for to read to Y3 and Y4 in our weekly story assembly. I was looking for a...
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Ajay and the Red-Wing Prince is the latest book in the brilliant Woodland Explorers Club series by the hugely talented E...
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This is a very big concept for such a slim book. It starts with a little girl musing about what the word 'strong' means. She thinks hard but can't come up...
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Ember Spark and her best friend, Arno Whisper, are apprentice vets to magical beasts. When Ember's pet nibblesqueak, Forty Winks, begins to behave oddly,...
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This fast-paced mystery set in post-WWII London, which centres around the theft of a diamond called The Fool's Canary by Jimmy Fatale's S...
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University of Cambridge: Secrets of Bees (Think Big) is a fantastic book. It is on trend both visually and topically at a time when polli...
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It's OK to Say No is the sort of book that works best on a one to one basis, shared between a child/young person and a trusted adult, rat...
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The Super Questers are back! I absolutely love these books and the children in my infants school firmly agree. In true scientific fashion...
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Max is determined to find the old time capsule, buried years ago by his grandmother, before she moves out of Pickwick Cottage and goes to live with Max an...
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Ember Spark and her best friend, Arno Whisper, are apprentice vets to magical beasts. When Ember's pet nibblesqueak, Forty Winks, begins to behave oddly,...
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This fast-paced mystery set in post-WWII London, which centres around the theft of a diamond called The Fool's Canary by Jimmy Fatale's S...
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University of Cambridge: Secrets of Bees (Think Big) is a fantastic book. It is on trend both visually and topically at a time when polli...
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It's OK to Say No is the sort of book that works best on a one to one basis, shared between a child/young person and a trusted adult, rat...
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The Super Questers are back! I absolutely love these books and the children in my infants school firmly agree. In true scientific fashion...
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Max is determined to find the old time capsule, buried years ago by his grandmother, before she moves out of Pickwick Cottage and goes to live with Max an...
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Imagine an animal that is around twice the size of a domestic cat with shimmering orange fur, silvery whiskers and iridescent green eyes. Imagine that sam...
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Sharing the 'best bits of the bard', Michael Rosen's Pocket Shakespeare offers a very accessible introduction to some of Shakespeare’s writing</st...
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Historical fiction is one of my favourite genres and Becoming Grace by Hilary McKay does not disappoint. McKay fictionalises the story of...
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Alex, still mourning the death of her father, finds out that she is in fact a dragon in human form. As if this was not shocking enough, she has to leave h...
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Two days before Britain's Declaration of War, Ronnie, his younger brother, Micky, and best friend, Lugs, watch children from their school set off as they...
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Puffin's mum is a research scientist and is often away from home. She and Puffin have a strained relationship; Puffin feels that her mum does not have eno...
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Imagine an animal that is around twice the size of a domestic cat with shimmering orange fur, silvery whiskers and iridescent green eyes. Imagine that sam...
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Sharing the 'best bits of the bard', Michael Rosen's Pocket Shakespeare offers a very accessible introduction to some of Shakespeare’s writing</st...
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Historical fiction is one of my favourite genres and Becoming Grace by Hilary McKay does not disappoint. McKay fictionalises the story of...
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Alex, still mourning the death of her father, finds out that she is in fact a dragon in human form. As if this was not shocking enough, she has to leave h...
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Two days before Britain's Declaration of War, Ronnie, his younger brother, Micky, and best friend, Lugs, watch children from their school set off as they...
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Puffin's mum is a research scientist and is often away from home. She and Puffin have a strained relationship; Puffin feels that her mum does not have eno...
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The third and equally brilliant new book from Nathanael Lessore - What Happens Online - follows our main character Fred through his journ...
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Eden Victoria's debut novel Close Protection promises suspense, romance, and a hint of danger, but unfortunately, it doesn't fully delive...
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Although Henry, Frances and Lukas are no longer best friends, they meet up for the funeral of their pet gerbil. Whilst digging the grave, they make an ama...
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Coming of age stories have always explored feelings of not fitting in - but how might those feelings be complicated if you didn't really know who one of y...
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Captain of Fates is a spin-off adventure from the wonderful Twin Crowns series and i...
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A seriously sinister, spooky, spine-chilling and spectacular comedy-horror, delivered expertly by Jennifer Killick who is an absolute master at MG...
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The third and equally brilliant new book from Nathanael Lessore - What Happens Online - follows our main character Fred through his journ...
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Eden Victoria's debut novel Close Protection promises suspense, romance, and a hint of danger, but unfortunately, it doesn't fully delive...
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Although Henry, Frances and Lukas are no longer best friends, they meet up for the funeral of their pet gerbil. Whilst digging the grave, they make an ama...
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Coming of age stories have always explored feelings of not fitting in - but how might those feelings be complicated if you didn't really know who one of y...
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Captain of Fates is a spin-off adventure from the wonderful Twin Crowns series and i...
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A seriously sinister, spooky, spine-chilling and spectacular comedy-horror, delivered expertly by Jennifer Killick who is an absolute master at MG...
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15-year-old Maaryah is a fish out of water, plucked from a life of wealth and luxury in Dubai and thrown into a state secondary in Essex. Already reeling...
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If you know a young YA romantic, then this is the book for them this summer. Not That Kind of Hero by Alexia Casale is a...
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Feldspar awaits execution. As shield to an ascendant, a member of the Hive's royal family, she should have died when her charge, Euphemie, was murdered, b...
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Set in modern day Glasgow, this powerful novel follows the lives of Finlay (18) and Banjo (17) as they both try to negotiate their ways through li...
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Some 20 years on from the Twilight phenomenon, a resurgence of the vampire narrative seems timely. The Sunday Times bestseller, Where Shadows Meet...
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Ty Forrester's involvement in a high profile armed robbery results in an 18 month sentence in a Young Offenders' institution. Falling in with a crowd his...
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15-year-old Maaryah is a fish out of water, plucked from a life of wealth and luxury in Dubai and thrown into a state secondary in Essex. Already reeling...
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If you know a young YA romantic, then this is the book for them this summer. Not That Kind of Hero by Alexia Casale is a...
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Feldspar awaits execution. As shield to an ascendant, a member of the Hive's royal family, she should have died when her charge, Euphemie, was murdered, b...
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Set in modern day Glasgow, this powerful novel follows the lives of Finlay (18) and Banjo (17) as they both try to negotiate their ways through li...
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Some 20 years on from the Twilight phenomenon, a resurgence of the vampire narrative seems timely. The Sunday Times bestseller, Where Shadows Meet...
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Ty Forrester's involvement in a high profile armed robbery results in an 18 month sentence in a Young Offenders' institution. Falling in with a crowd his...
Not That Kind Of Hero: A heart-stopping teen romance 
I Am Raven 
Clem Fatale Has Been Betrayed 
This Song Is About Us 
The Bear-Shaped Hole 
The Dark That Hides Us (Volume 2) 
The Bear and the Hare and the Fair 
Oh, Carrots! 
Cafe Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake 
School of Doom 
What's That Noise? 
Party Animal 
Ghostlines 
Anne of Green Gables 
The Falling Boy 
The Colour of the Sky 
Come What May 
When the World Tips Over 
Ajay and the Red-winged Prince 
Land of the Last Wildcat 
Wild: An uplifting celebration of wildness 
National Trust: Wonder World: Earth: The Natural Science of Soil 
Once I Was a Tree 
University of Cambridge: Teeny Tiny Science: I See a Cloud: A book about the water cycle 