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• Toby and Sox: The Heartwarming Tale of a Little Boy With Autism and a Dog in a Million by Vikki Turner
  ...by and Sox: The Heartwarming Tale of a Little Boy With Autism and a Dog in a Million |summary= A very special dog called Sox arrives to help an autistic boy called Toby and his family, who are desperate for help.
  4 KB (651 words) - 11:44, 26 February 2018
• Choosing Crumble by Michael Rosen and Tony Ross (Illustrator)
  |summary=A funny and appealing story for newly independent readers telling you all you ...to be sure that his prospective owner is the perfect match for him and has a few questions of his own. Will Terri- Lee be able to convince Crumble that
  3 KB (484 words) - 11:11, 5 September 2020
• Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty by Alain Mabanckou
  ..., very touching and full of the child-like logic that would make the world a much better place if we were all that age again. ...as he meets her conditions: she requires children, a red 5-seater car and a white dog.
  4 KB (649 words) - 12:28, 8 September 2020
• Kinsey and Me: Stories by Sue Grafton
  ...er novels who would like to read a little bit more about Kinsey, and learn a little about the author's life too. ...tobiography for Grafton herself, with stories supposedly about a character called Kit Blue but, really, being stories of Grafton's own childhood and young ad
  4 KB (714 words) - 17:03, 6 August 2020
• Frida and Bear by Anthony Browne and Hanne Bartholin
  |summary=A story and rules in one, this is a book that's fun to read and a game that's fun to play. ...d it stems from their mutual love of drawing. If you didn’t think that was a two-player activity think again.
  3 KB (477 words) - 11:31, 7 August 2020
• Naughty Toes by Ann Bonwill and Teresa Murfin
  ...). She's dancing off the beat to her own jazzy rhythm...just what kind of a dancer is she? ...rightly on her face she ends up waving hers around so they'll sparkle like a disco ball!
  3 KB (570 words) - 17:03, 4 April 2018
• Flotsam and Jetsam and the Stormy Surprise by Tanya Landman
  ...ing with a pre-reader too, with a warm story and some potential for use as a source of language work material. ...ab called Sainsbury, explore the treasures that the sea brings and talk in a strange but perfectly understandable dialect reminiscent of the BFG.
  5 KB (887 words) - 17:15, 18 April 2018
• A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry's Bodies by Francesca Simon and Tony Ross
  |title=A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry's Bodies |summary=Chock-full of interesting facts and figures. A fun read for little fact lovers.
  3 KB (520 words) - 10:11, 8 August 2020
• Trash by Andy Mulligan
  .... Moving and thought-provoking and ever-so-slightly whimsical, it combines a mystery story and social comment to wonderful effect. ...nd he has good things in his life - a close extended family, a best friend called Gardo - and an exciting secret.
  4 KB (636 words) - 22:59, 17 March 2018
• The Toucan Brothers by Tor Freeman
  ...of visual cues when reading, this book is definitely one you want to take a closer look at. The expressions on the characters faces are perfect and eac ...ent of the book. I am not all surprised to learn that she has been awarded a very prestigious prize for illustration (The Sendak Fellowship).
  4 KB (814 words) - 11:17, 24 August 2020
• The Peculiars by Maureen Doyle McQuerry
  ...d to be home to people with unnatural physical features. Was Lena's Father a Peculiar? And what does that make her? ...wants to know more about herself, why has she got these hands and feet? Is it because she has 'goblin blood' like her bitter Grandmother tells her?
  3 KB (542 words) - 14:13, 14 March 2018
• Charlie is My Darling by Malachy Doyle and Stephen Lambert
  ...ss Ellen Adams. He takes Charlie to the park where he soon discovers that a little dog can cause big trouble. ...either. This is a shame because as we learn later in the story he is just a dog ''who likes to run, who likes to play, who likes to paddle, likes to br
  4 KB (811 words) - 10:29, 29 March 2018
• The Astonishing Return of Norah Wells by Virginia Macgregor
  |summary=What happens to a family that's moved on from the departure of a wife and mother when she suddenly pops up again? Warm, poignant, funny and ...a and little 6 year old Willa seem a happy family. They are on the whole, it's just Ella who isn't. Fay, named by the ladies across the road 'The Mothe
  4 KB (708 words) - 09:36, 15 March 2018
• The Art of Roughhousing: Good Old Fashioned Horseplay and Why Every Kid Needs It by Anthony T DeBenedet and Lawrence Cohen
  ...Art of Roughhousing: Good Old Fashioned Horseplay and Why Every Kid Needs It ...=Art of Roughhousing: Good Old Fashioned Horseplay and Why Every Kid Needs it
  6 KB (972 words) - 11:11, 4 February 2023
• The Death of Her by Debbie Howells
  ...a child ever lived there. Does Angel really exist, or is she a figment of a tortured mind? ...s, but on closer examination of Evie's cottage, they find no evidence of a child ever having lived there...
  4 KB (596 words) - 11:38, 16 March 2018
• Chickens Can't See in the Dark by Kristyna Litten
  ...s to find the answer to. Having been told that they can't, she sets off on a mission to disprove this fact even though all of the other chicks are laugh When a little chick called Pippa hears her teacher, Mr Benedict, say:
  4 KB (622 words) - 08:58, 17 September 2020
• Super Happy Magic Forest by Matty Long
  ...funky fantasy. Join a gnome, a unicorn, a fawn, a fairy and a mushroom on a fantastical adventure. ...spark this enthusiasm in your kids? Matty Long may just have come up with a cunning plan.
  3 KB (597 words) - 12:25, 10 April 2018
• Dora's Christmas Parade by Leslie Valdes
  |summary=Dora the Explorer goes on a Christmas musical walk to her Grandma's. Clunky, cumbersome and an offence ..., designed as a way of either familiarising English-speaking children with a smattering of Spanish or (and?) brining the Latin (Mexican?) community clos
  3 KB (558 words) - 13:31, 8 March 2018
• Sticky Ends by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
  |summary=A book of disgusting and gruesome rhymes. I didn't think it was fantastic, but there are one or two gems in there and some great illust ...nvolved, with each one getting their comeuppance. Tony Ross obviously had a wonderful time illustrating the book with everything from noses, dripping w
  3 KB (595 words) - 14:11, 11 October 2020
• Thud by Nick Butterworth
  ...ly illustrated story full of suspense, action, humour and humanity (though it concerns jungle animals and monsters), highly recommended for all preschool ...ut not monsters, Piers the warthog is too beautiful and Ralph the lion has a sore throat. Even the Ugly Beast doesn't feel able to help.
  3 KB (584 words) - 13:25, 12 April 2018

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