Latest Book Reviews
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Baby Faces: Little Lion, Where Are You? is a really lovely board book for babies and toddlers! Bright and colourful pages with large pull...
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Peekaboo Dinosaur is a really lovely, durable and well made board book. The colours and pictures are bright and engaging with pull out ta...
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My eight-month-old baby loved this! Each double page is filled with brightly coloured pictures and has different textures to feel and explore. There are...
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Bhorta Bhorta Baby is a great book for exploring cuisines from different countries and introducing culture through food. Our nursery chil...
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Cat Nap is a wonderful, humorous first book of Steve Antony’s character-led stories for young children. The limited language, focusing on...
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I received this book this morning and have had to read it at least 10 times already. My two-year-old keeps asking for it again and again. He particularly...
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Is it a Seed? depicts a colourful and creative journey through the imagination of two children when they discover a mysterious seed and b...
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Have you ever struggled falling asleep? Meet Bill, his head is so full of ideas it stops him sleeping. This would be fine but Bill is keeping his friends...
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Measuring Me is a fantastic book to share with children who are fascinated by numbers! The book uses beautifully draw illustrations to il...
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A Midsummer Night's Drama is a beautiful bedtime story for little bards which tackles the tricky problem of getting to sleep! The book is...
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How Many Dinosaurs is too Many? asks the child (gender unspecific) in this vivid and vibrant picture book. When the child gets a real ora...
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Where is the Cat? is a fun book which involves finding cat! At the beginning we meet cat who has a good life enjoying all the things cats...
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The Girl and the Mermaid is the beautiful new book by winning duo Hollie Hughes and Sarah Massini. The front cover is shiny and sparkly,...
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If you haven't already fallen in love with little Pedro and the Adventure Mice, then you are in for an absolute treat. True to form this newest adventure...
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I am a 'Meet the…' collector as I really love the way Caryl Hart makes informative texts so full of personality, passion and character. A frequent reader...
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The tag-line for this book is 'the story of how a plant grows...up!' so you know exactly what you're getting if you pick up this charming book, Bu...
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Tree is the story of a 300-year-old mountain ash in Australia and all the creatures that live on or around that tree. Written by the team...
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Catherine Barr and Christiane Engel have brilliantly taken the latest research and created this wonderful children's book. The detailed information and ca...
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Totally Chaotic History: Ancient Egypt Gets Unruly! is an accessible and hugely informative fact book written entertainingly by historian...
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A Hugh Dunnit Mystery: Taking Shelter is a hilarious new detective story by Guy Bass. This book is funny to its core and incorporates com...
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Kayla is a cadet Sky Rider, training at the Sky Academy in Sophiatown. Her only friend is her pangron, Faro, and when he is stolen from her, she will stop...
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Finn doesn't want to be in the Alps on a school residential. He wants to be on his sofa, gaming and eating pizza. Instead, he is walking! And to top it al...
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Totally Chaotic History: Ancient Egypt Gets Unruly! is the start of a fresh, fun, new series and a lively, laugh-out-loud way to explore...
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A second theatrical, exhilarating and magical adventure at the Wondria - a secret, travelling boarding school within the land of the Hidden Peaks. ...
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The City Beyond the Stars is a phenomenal sequel to <a href="/books/the-kingdom-over-the-sea-the-perfect-spellbinding-fantasy-adventure-f...
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Juniper and Bear are now living in Ennerdale with their father, his new partner, Willow, and their baby, Fern. The life they escaped in the city should be...
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Peregrine Quinn has always loved hearing her godfather, Daedalus's stories about being an immortal, but when they visit the Bodleian Library and the porta...
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The voice of Shadow, a wild and lonely fox, tells this latest poignant story from Carlie Sorosiak, Shadow Fox. At the heart of the book (...
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I love Dragon Force: Infinity's Secret because it has a lot of commotion. I loved it when the swan tries to trick Arthur to make the Drag...
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The Creatures of Killburn Mine is the fifth installment in the spooky Crooked Oak serie...
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13-year-old Kamaria Kessy lives in Philadelphia with her Momma and Baba (father), who are originally from Tanzania. Kamaria loves running and rhythm; she...
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12-year-old Yara Sulimayah lives in Bournemouth. When she loses her mother in a tragic accident, she is left alone and is about to go into care. Things ch...
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Bringing Back Kay-Kay is gripping from the start. The protagonist is 12-year-old Lena whose older brother, Kay-Kay, has gone missing afte...
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What a wonderful idea to set a time travelling story with a cinema screen as the portal. Translated from Dutch, this award-winning novel (The Golden Penci...
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Benjamin Creek does not believe in magic, preferring science, logic and reasoning until he is led into the impossibly magical world of Wreathenwold. With...
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Spin is a new anthology featuring ten new poets from diverse backgrounds, selected by Jospeh Coelho who has also contributed three poems...
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Written by Nigerian-German author Efua Traore, Sister Spirit is her first novel for older readers. This supernatural mystery/thriller wil...
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"It is hard to tell a love story and also the story of a people being torn apart" but Crossan achieves this magnificently in her latest and best verse nov...
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Lie or Die is such a page turner, it kept me on the edge of my seat as I read every word! This is an exhilarating read full of high stakes, tensio...
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Despite the clue in the title, the reappearance of the focus of this brilliant new YA novel from Holly Jackson still surprised me! I was so deeply immerse...
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From the author of The Loop series comes a shocking yet compulsive novel of survival, determination, social media and reali...
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Great book, compelling and jaw-dropping! Some swearing so I would say anyone over 13 should read it.