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|author= Kate BeaufoyMiles Russell|title= Arthur and the Kings of Britain: The Gingerbread HouseHistorical Truth Behind the Myths|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionHistory|summary=''The Gingerbread House'' As the author of the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), written in 1136, Geoffrey of Monmouth is not a cottage from a fairytale where a wicked old witch lives but it commonly recognized as one of the first British historians. His book told – or is in a wonderful rural settingsupposed to have told - the story of the British monarchy during the Dark Ages, perfect for getting away from it all. Or it would be, if it weren't for the lady who lives there whoarrival of the Trojan Brutus, while far from a witchgrandson of Aeneas, can be a bit up to the seventh century AD when the Anglo-Saxons had taken control of a b*tchBritain. It's not entirely her fault. Eleanor has dementia Being virtually the only work of its kind at the time, it proved very influential, and her fading mind makes her confusedbecame well-known throughout western Europe as one of the great works of medieval literature as the first retelling of the story of King Arthur, angry Lear and quite hard work to care forCymbeline. With her current carer off to attend her daughter's wedding, Eleanor's daughter Shakespeare was forever in law Tess steps up his debt with regard to assume this role in the interim, bringing her precocious daughter Katia with hertwo latter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17853008651445662744</amazonuk>

|author=Dinah JefferiesDenzil Meyrick|title=Before Well of the RainsWinds (DCI Daley)|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories of India that have feed her desire to returnIt's not a happy time for DCI Jim Daley. The woman he loved is dead - there are those who blame him for what happened - and his relationship with Liz, his ex wife, and his young son is deteriorating by the day. Therefore He's finding solace in 1930, following the death bottom of her husbanda glass, when whilst the British government commission her man who used to photograph scenes of Indian lifedo that all too often, she jumps at the chancehis friend DS Brian Scott is off alcohol completely and has found exercise. What There's a new officer in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - and whilst she doesnmight look young, it't realise is s unlikely that not everyone she comes across is delighted with the idea. Living within the Sultana's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for her, as is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza the real India. However, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadlygot to that position without having a core of steel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412870811846973724</amazonuk>

|author=Pam JenoffNicole Dennis-Benn |title=The Orphan's TaleHere Comes the Sun |rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Herr NeuroffYou have to assume the team behind the cover sleeve for Nicole Dennis-Benn's debut novel Here Come's circus has the Sun have a secret: as well as a much needed wartime source keen sense of irony. Either that or none of entertainment, them read beyond the first page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607124X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 5/4 -->|author=W S Markendale|title=Owen Pendragon|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere to kidnap children in Cornwall and the army seems powerless to do anything about it's also refuge to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fates. One such person, Astrid, a trapeze 12-year-olds Owen and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and high wire artistneighbours disappear. Imagine their surprise when they realise that thanks to an ancient relative, lives a precarious life in which her possible discovery would be they have more dangerous influence on what happens than her nightly act. She's an expert who has perfected her art over time they think and therefore resents Neuroff demanding she teach Noa, a non-circus family new comer, quicklynot just on what happens on Earth. There's a reason behind the circus owner's demand though. And their distant relative? Noa arrives at the circus endangered by an act of kindness: a Jewish baby she stole from a Nazi train before leaving the Netherlands. It was a spur The former monarch and head of the moment decision that will bind her to Astrid and their futureround table, no matter how long… or short… a time that may beless: King Arthur.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18484553641524667579</amazonuk>

|author=Brian McClellanJon Morris|title=Sins The Legion of EmpireRegrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History

|genre=FantasyGraphic Novels |summary=The fantasy genre is home to some of the best books that As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have ever readto admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a bit pants. What is The Penguin but also some of the world's worst. Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? The very nature Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of epic stories that span generations means that few fantasy books rock up under 400 pages random chemicals and changed colour, and many are part got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the embodiment of long running series or trilogies. cold? When done badlyAnd that's just some of the better-known enemies of ''Batman'', fantasy books are bloated and boring affairs that rattle one of every cliché the genre has had better goodies. You can imagine how awful the baddies related to offer since Bilbo exited Bag End, but done well they the bad goodies can be brilliant. They And if you can be ''Sins of Empire'' by Brian McClellant, this is the perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650929X1594749329</amazonuk>

|author=Yuval ZommerStefan Mohamed|title=The Big Stanly's Ghost: Book of Beasts 3 (Big BooksThe Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=One of Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the many issues people have with superpowers. And the TV nature programme, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is super powered allies. And the obvious one of all mysterious enemies. And the blood and guts it features – yes, in amongst all terrifying monsters. And the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally stunning revelations. And the cutesy, comical ones, whatapocalypse. Now he's worse)not sure what he is. You'll be pleased to know, however, that this book Or where he is very light on death and destruction. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while the females that caught and killed it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plenty, but there Or how exactly one is so little supposed to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for proceed after saving the home shelf or world. All he knows is that in a primary schoolhis story isn't finished.Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X1784630764</amazonuk>

|author=Ulf Nilsson Michelle Robinson and Gitte SpeeEmily Fox|title=A Case in Any CaseMonkey's Sandwich|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The [[Detective Gordon: The First Case by Ulf Nilsson and Gitte Spee|last time]] we saw the toad called Detective Gordon at work he had a mouse colleague in the forest police with him, and in fact the two were so close they often shared a bed in the old prison cells together. But now Gordon has practically retired, and the mouse, Police Chief Buffy, is doing all the work herself. It's quite scary work, too, when something horrid, nasty and slightly smelling of toad is rootling around the police station at night. But when the two are together there's no stopping them, and any crime can be solved – which is probably a very good thing when not one but two of the forest babies go missing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571096</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kenneth Oppel and Jon Klassen|title=The Nest|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Steven can narrate this book to us, but he can hardly ever mention the name of his newborn baby brother. That's not down to a fault with Steven, although there are many of those – obsessive hand-washing, nightmares, anxiety attacks. It's because there's something wrong with the new addition to the family. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying for a new child so late in life, but whatever the reason there is something demanding a lot of medical care and attention, even if the child can more or less live in the family home. But hope seems to be shining a light into Steven from the most unlikely source – angels that come to visit him in his dreams, from within a pleasant, light-filled haven, with full knowledge of the family's troubles and an offer of a way out. Obviously, worried for the happiness of his family, and knowing this is just a dream, Steven will only say yes to the offer of help…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200875</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Aino-Maija Metsola|title=My First Animals |rating=4

|summary=Get used to two simple words if Monkeys have been given the reputation of being cheeky, but do you have a childalso see them as petty thieves? How can these cheerful chimps be seen as anything other than cute, ''What's Thatbut mischievous little monkeys?'' You will hear it over and over and over againAnyone who has driven through Knowsley Safari Park knows the truth. If you are lucky they are pointing A perfectly good car drives in the monkey enclosure only to be bereft of wing mirrors, hubcaps and windscreen wipers at something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of regretthe end. Sometimes they will point at something Rumour has it that is not too familiar. Here the parental practise of making something up comes into play – it's monkeys sell these parts wholesale at a bird type thinglockup in South Kirby. Books that show images of itemsThe monkey in this tale may not be stealing car parts, colours or animals may seem but he is a little dull light fingered when it comes to an adult, but to a toddler learning about making the world they are a who's who of what's thatultimate lunch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478096770007580010</amazonuk>

|author= Quentin BlakeYrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title= The Story of the Dancing FrogLegacy: Children's House Book 1|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly Thrillers|summary= When JoWhat do you wish for in your murder mysteries? An inventive death? Well you couldn's Great Aunt Gertrudet go much further than the unusual murder by household device that Elisa suffers here. She's sea captain a mother to a young family, whose husband is drowned was abroad at sea she is grief-stricken a conference. Do you seek awkward, unusual and/or conflicted investigators? Well, in despairhere we have a detective from the lower ranks, she goes for but the only one clean enough after post-financial crash investigations tainted all his superiors; and a walk alone. During this walk she notices woman who runs a small frog on a lily-padhome that investigates and recuperates child victims of sex abuse. But he is no ordinary frog - heShe's here because the only witness to the murder was Elisa's a dancing frog very young daughter. And lo and behold, the two quickly become good friendsadults have history. Do you require taunting clues as to why this crime will be repeated? You can't do much better than the messages in numerals received by other characters and their untold threat. Soon So it's tick, tick, tick – but what of the duo are touring question marks left by the world with their routineprologue, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out where another young family of children was separated as a best case scenario by the adoption agencies after a different nasty event in the occasional rescue - wherever they go.past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811259101473621526</amazonuk>

|author=Otto de Kat Charlotte Guillain and Laura Watkinson (translator)Yuval Zommer|title=The Longest NightStreet Beneath My Feet|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Emma has It's one thing for a philosophy non-fiction book for the young to show them something they themselves can explore – ''let the dead restpattern of the stars, perhaps, and love or the living''life in their back yard. The problem with But when it gets to things thatare equally important to know about but are impossible to see in real life, as a 96-year-oldwhy, then the game is that there are too few living leftchanged. The artistic imagination has to be key, and so while in portraying the love remains she will go through her memoriesinvisible, taking a woozy, diaphanous path through all and presenting what can only come from the major events pages of her lifea book. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, who gets snatched from her And this example does it at workits best, fleeing to another place to wait for peace, and wait for him in vainas it delves into the layers of the soil below said back yard, moving to Holland down and finding new lovedown, and so on – this wispy journey will show through all the impacts different kinds of warrock, from rationing right up to exile, death and survivaluntil we reach the unattainable centre of the planet. The memories are coming strongly here and nowAnd there's only one way to go from there – back out the other side, as Emma is waiting with yet more for at least one of her two sons us to visitbe shown. It's a fantastic journey, then – and then she will die…a quite fantastic volume.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560851784937312</amazonuk>

|author=Andrea Beaty and David RobertsAlice Feeney|title=Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersSometimes I Lie|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=For a long time now, people Christmas is barely over but Amber doesn't have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the sciences, engineering and suchlikemuch to celebrate. But I know of at least two sources of role models in that regard. One, most obviously, is ''Star Wars'' – letShe's face itin a coma, the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts trapped with an active mind but could fly the ''Millennium Falcon'' with easean inactive body, able to hear and the likes of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] understand but not respond to what is adept at mending some sort of flying farming machinesgoing on around her. If you donAnd her mind't wish to go s a little fuzzy on a few things too fantastical, or are seeking role models for the younger audiencelike how she ended up there, who else was involved, there is the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]]what it all means.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14197191060008225354</amazonuk>

|author= Irvine WelshPolly Clark|title= The Blade ArtistLarchfield

|genre= Crime Literary Fiction |summary=So. In the interest of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine WelshIt's work and I must confess to early summer when a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbieyoung poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the notoriously violentwest coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, terrifying protector/tormentor she's excited by the prospect of the Trainspotting ganga life that combines family and creativity. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased reviewShe thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, it does mean you will get a passionate onemother, means. It She is fair to say soon shown that I loved ''The Blade Artist'' and my only critique would be that it was over too quicklyshe is wrong. For those As the battle begins for her very sense of you who may not be familiar with Welsh's earlier manifestations have no fearself, Dora comes to find the realities of small town life suffocating, you can pick up ''The Blade Artist'' and be transfixed by Jim Francis, artisteventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, fatherlived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, husband brilliant and elegant thug. For those of you awkward at 24, with previous knowledge his first book of Francis Begbie you'll poetry published, should be instantly drawn back into the world of embarking on success and society in London. Instead, in 1930, fleeing a man previously defined by petty vengeancebroken engagement, violence he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and bloodsuspected - rightly - of homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X1786481928</amazonuk>

|author=Jonny LambertPippa Mattinson|title=Tiger Tiger Choosing the Perfect Puppy

|genre=For SharingPets|summary=Until If you spend have ever, for even a day hanging out with fleeting moment, thought about getting a child puppy, you will never know how exhausting it can bereally ought to read this book. As an adult you Too many people are used to peppering your day with little downtime treats; a cup carried away in the heat of tea perhaps, the moment and ''must'' have a biscuits, or maybe even a cheeky nap? particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. The kids I know have no end of energy and at best you will get a sip of cold coffee, They then have to give them most of live with the biscuit and problems which ''might'' have been avoided for a nap would consist of them jumping on your headdecade or more. However, although their enthusiasm The puppy and zest may the adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be tiring, it is also infectious, just ask any old tiger you meetable to accommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869444X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-- remove 18/3 -->|to author= Michael R Lane|title= UFOs and GODon matters dog related: A Collection she talks sense. She doesn't try to talk you out of Short Stories|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=From stories of young people caught up in getting a Robin Hood style operation gone wrong, to a believer in God having her faith shaken by particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the arrival of aliens, author Michael R Lane has compiled a collection of fascinating facts and clever short stories here. From farm allows you to urban, from World War II to the Digital Age, the places and times, people and events in ''UFOs and God'' spotlight the tender underbelly of the human condition in all its glory and despair on these varied stages of fictionmake your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>163491712X1785034375</amazonuk>

|author=DKMatilda Woods|title=What's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It BeforeBoy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker

|genre=ReferenceConfident Readers|summary=I dread to think how old the atlas we used when I was Alberto is a child wascarpenter, but at least we had onethe very best in the town of Allora. But after the plague sweeps through the town, taking many of the citizens and I didnAlberto't need s wife and children, he turns his skills away from furniture and toys to making coffins. Wrapped in sadness, and waiting only for the plague to go come and claim his life too, Alberto lives alone, keeping company with the dead who are delivered to school or a library his house to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seekingawait their coffin. I'm so old One day, however, he realises that he must have a lot living visitor, as food starts to go missing. He begins to leave scraps of things about it now would be most redundantfood, but if you choose to risk your arm try and buy an atlas for discover who his mystery thief is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 30/3 -->|author= Mark Aylwin Thomas|title= Blades of Grass|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Any book that has me in tears at the end has been worth my time. Any book that has me hoping it will end differently to the way I know it must is worth the reading. Any book that convinces me that maybe there is still hope in the family shelves world – that for all generations will benefit fromthe mistakes made thus far, still being made right now, there is a common humanity which ultimately, eventually, as opposed to relying on electronic must do some good – that is worth the writing and the reading and updateable sources the time. Blades of informationGrass is one such book. It's a forgotten story, then this an unknown story to most people. It is the one to havethat should be told – and reflected upon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412283791524676969</amazonuk>

|author= Sarah BakewellLucy Jones|title= At The Existentialist CaféFoxes Unearthed: Freedom, Being A Story of Love and Apricot CocktailsLoathing in Modern Britain|rating=4|genre= Politics Animals and SocietyWildlife |summary= You know that old saying about judging books by their cover? Ignore it! I have found that by judging As one of the largest predators left in Britain, the fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns. Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, perceived variously as a beautiful animal, a cunning rogue, a book by its cover vicious pest and getting a worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, it completely wrong is a great way to find yourself committed to reading a book that you'd never have picked in a million years also the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and yether own history with the creatures. Discussing the debate on foxes, somehowJones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, being amazingly glad you didand our relationship with the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995548871783963042</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 1629/3 -->|author=Amanda RobertsSteven Anthony|title=The Roots Isaac Montgomery for the Love of the TreeBeth|rating=43

|summary=The strength of a tree comes not from what you can see, not from There are words to describe the trunk, Isaac Montgomery we meet at the branches and beginning of the leaves, but from what you can't see - the rootsstory. Disturbance to the roots can be devastating. ItUnfortunately they's similar re not words you usually use in human beingspolite company. Annie had lived He'd worked for 63 many yearsin stockbroking and had made a substantial fortune, secure but his life was devoid of much in the love way of her parentspersonal relationships. When he required a woman as an escort, Elsie and Frankhe paid. She'd looked after them in her home in their final years and it was quite by chance He assumed that she came across their wedding certificate when she if he was sorting out their effects. They had not been married until ''after'' her birthhaving a good time, but her birth certificate showed Frank as her father and that her mother then she was married too - if he even bothered to himthink about it. Something He had a friend whom he didn't add up see all that often and there it was one inescapable conclusion: the man shewhen he thought about Phil that a little 'd loved as her father all those years 'jealousy'wasn'tcrept into Isaac'' her father after alls heart. You see, Phil was engaged to Penelope and they were obviously happy. Isaac began to wonder what love was - and how you went about finding someone to share your life with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909716863152466815X</amazonuk>

|author=Ian Graham and Stephen BiestyMartin Edwards (editor)|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsMiraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|rating=5|genre=ArtCrime|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old Consider the following scenario: a policeman hears someone screaming and upwards) want runs to know what lies beneath the skin which you can see. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips with one in real life is quite a big askhouse on a particular street, but number 13, from where the next best thing noise is ''Stephen Biesty's Trains'' which features trains from all over emanating. When he peeps through the world and spanning letterbox he discovers a dead man in the early steam train (complete hallway with cow catcher) right through a knife in his throat. He goes to fetch help, but upon returning, finds that the trains of the future which can reach street does not have a speed of 430 kph number 13 and don't even run on rails. Once the train reaches a speed of 150 kph that the wheels are raised body and the train is held up by magnetic forces aloneroom he saw have both mysteriously vanished...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17837042410712356738</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldBrian Moses|authortitle=Rachel IgnotofskyLost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionRhymes and Verse|summary=For a poet with the very memorable name of [[:Category:Brian Moses|Moses]], I have to admit never having come across it before, nor having knowingly read any of his works. This collection was the perfect place for me to come late to the party, as it takes the author''Women in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields s own favourites from several previous anthologies of his, and celebrates their achievementsadds new verses. There are women from I read them with very little clue as to which was which – and certainly couldn't tell having finished the ancient world and women working todaybook. Each of them There is given a double page spread including lot here that will grab the young schoolchild, but the topics cover so much there really will be a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids on one side and universal appeal, meaning that a page lot of text with people will have a brief biography and outline of her achievements. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work and their discoveries but also for the barriers they overcame - barred definite favourite from classes or employment because they were women or these pages, even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated America.if the author himself cannot decide…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15263605191509838767</amazonuk>

|author=RedressNina Laden|title=Dress (with) sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious ClosetNight I Followed the Dog

|genre=LifestyleFor Sharing|summary=Not too long ago I didnThere's a Boy (who doesn't have any problems a name) and a Dog (likewise) and in the beginning you get the feeling that the Boy would prefer to have next door's Dog who wins prizes in obedience classes and does clever things with clothesthe television remote control. They were just about all black and I wore them That is until they dropped off my back - one morning when Boy opens the door a little earlier than usual and then I used what I could spots Dog getting out of the material for other purposesa limousine. I had this lovely little clothes shop in Ilkley (it says 'Oxfam' over the door) when I needed to restockIn a tuxedo. Clothes were simpleThe he disappears into the back garden. Then I encountered Boy's shocked but a few minutes later he goes to the lovely [[:Category:Numba Pinkerton|Numba Pinkerton]] back door and suddenly I had colour whistles for Dog, who comes dashing in my life: not all of it could be had from Oxfam, anxious to eat. Sometimes I might even be buying At first Boy can't ''quite'' believe what he ''newthinks'' clothes. I needed help and more advicehe saw, because it really isn't as simple as just walking into so he determines to follow Dog the nearest department storenext night.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05002927791452161348</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 16/3 -->|author=Marilyn BennettPhil Earle|title=Granny with BenefitsSuperDad's Day Off|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Thirty nine Stanley's dad is tired. It can be exhausting work being a difficult age for a woman, particularly if she's not marriedSuperhero. Has she given up on For six days of the week he saves the world from disasters and defeats the idea of having baddies as Dynamo Dan. Stanley decides his poor dad needs a day off and is determined to make sure that he gets a family? Does her career mean everything proper rest. So they head off to her? On the other hand is she desperately looking park for a man? Grace found herself in a difficult situation when she first met Dale (or Heaven on Legs - HoL - as she thought of him)some much needed Dad and Son bonding time. SheHowever people don'd volunteered t seem to sort out her late grandmother's home, but she couldn't resist the opportunity understand that even Superheroes need time to do a little dressing uprecuperate. So, wearing her grandmother's clothes, wig resting just above her eyebrows and heavy-rimmed glasses perched The requests for help keep on the end of her nose she met the man of her dreams. Only, rather coming so what can poor Stanley do other than laughing and explaining what she'd been doing, Grace carried on step in to save the pantomime - and called herself Louiseday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858987361781126844</amazonuk>

|author=DKAndrew Cook|title=Forest Life and Woodland CreaturesThe Murder of the Romanovs|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction History|summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life The fate of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra and the animalschildren, fuelled no end of rumour, plants misinformation and trees in itconspiracy theories for many years, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore even though the truth was known not long after the woods for yourselfevent. It's for a very young audienceIn the last few years, the advance of forensic science, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick DNA testing and easy tasks, the precise location of the bodies have allowed for confirmation of the exact truth and a few lessonsdismissal of claims by a noted so-called surviving Grand Duchess. The balance between carrot and stickEven so, or duty and rewardas Andrew Cook notes, is great – but what exactly is straight after the deaths of the edutainment going to provide, imperial family 'there would begin a ninety-year battle between science and what will it demand of us?superstition which is not over yet'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412731101445666278</amazonuk>

|author=DKS L Grey|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesThe Apartment|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-FictionHorror|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out the sort of lower-case, almost-Steph and Mark are in trouble. Mark is running from a grief he can't escape and Steph is anxiously juggling her joy at being a-subtitle wording on the front of mother with her guilt at being a book'kept woman'. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if Add a brutal home invasion to the mix and you have a youngster intending recipe for disaster. Desperate to come here and learn all save their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointed. If you once happy marriage the couple decide to take it on board a romantic trip to Paris only to discover that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, then all well some terror is inescapable and goodevil has a vice like grip. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412743891447266560</amazonuk>

|author=Theo GuignardZachary Leader|title=LabyrinthThe Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964 |rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionBiography|summary=Of all the books published for peopleAt over eight hundred pages, 'The Life of Saul Bellow's paper-based hobbies when I was is not a youngsterlight book, but it's remarkable that all is the most complete account of them have been revisited the life and revamped. I say this because they certainly werenwork of America't exactly brilliant fun back thens most honoured literary figure. NoDuring the course of his life, we didn't have quite a number of notable attempts were made to capture the modern style essence of colouring-the man in books, but they were available, if you'd gone beyond 'join biographical form. Zachary Leader benefits from this groundwork; he also has the dotsadvantage that his work has been compiled since Bellow's death in 2005. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – and I remember how every church book sale for years As a result, he has had ''Origami''access to sources, manuscripts and letters denied to previous biographers. Leader''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pences research is exemplary and incredibly detailed. But He not only looks at the ultimate in paper-based fun back then was life of the use-once format of man but at the maze book. This is creative process that made him the modern equivalent – but boycolossus that he became and it's all written with a genuine passion, hasn't the idea grown up since then…love and respect for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478099870099520931</amazonuk>

|author=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoLily Kunin|title=Life on EarthGood Clean Food: Farm: With 100 Questions Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and 70 Lift-flaps!Feel Your Best

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCookery|summary=I'm sure I was full of questions when I was Lily Kunin is a nipper – which means I was too full health coach and creator of questions[http://www.cleanfooddirtycity.com/ clean food dirty city site] and [https://www.instagram.com/cleanfooddirtycity/?hl=en instagram account]. Parents just donShe't need d always been a food lover but her attitude to be deflecting questions all the food she was eating changed when she began to suffer from migraines. A long (and bad) time, do they? later she tried avoiding gluten and her symptoms were alleviated within 48 hours. Living on the edge From this she developed her food philosophy of seeing an intolerance to gluten as a village in the middle of nowhere as creative opportunity. I did, liked that she has ''a constant dialogue'' with her body rather than sticking to a restrictive regime. That I can empathise with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419723901</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ted Dewan|title=Something for Mummy (Bing)|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Having a child gives you a glimpse into a world that you never knew quite even existed. Unfortunately, this not a lot about farms and farming – that different animals gave different resultswinter wonderland hidden in a wardrobe, that different vehicles meant different things and that the crops behind our house changedbut a world of children's TV characters. But for The mainstays of the inner city childgenre have still survived; Sooty, Noddy and Postman Pat, there but who is RaRa or Mr Tumble? One popular show that takes some getting used to is Bing, a chance they series all about a rabbit that seems to have never met a cow or seen stuffed animal as a silocarer. This colourful book, bright There are seemingly no parents in both senses of the wordshow as if the town is one giant crèche, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countryside.so how come Bing and his helper Flop are making a gift for Mummy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478089990008212015</amazonuk>

|author=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoJohn Preston|title=Life on Earth: Human BodyA Very English Scandal: With 100 Questions Sex, Lies and 70 Lift-flaps!a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction True Crime|summary=I wonder how much time I've saved in not being a parent – Jeremy Thorpe was the sort of person who was generally liked by others. He was flamboyant and therefore not having gregarious but could give the impression that meeting someone had made his day. He never seemed to answer such pesky questions as why is the sky blueforget a name and he was witty, where did I come fromcharismatic and very charming. He appeared to be a decent man, where does my wee come from, what is earwax, and why do with views with which I would have a spleen? Stillagreed on race, apart from capital punishment and membership of the first twoCommon Market, those questions as the European Union was then known. For this was the nineteen sixties and Thorpe had entered Parliament at the answers to them age of thirty and more are in this book, which is by 1967 he would be party leader. On the surface he was a lovely primer for biology, and a great source of quick facts man who had everything going for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478090060241973740</amazonuk>

|author= Victoria AveyardBill Nye and Gregory Mone|title= King's CageJack and the Geniuses 1: At the Bottom of the World

|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=It's tough being a genius. There are few, if any, people you can talk about your interests to, and words like 'He caught me in a prince's trap. And now Inerd''m in a King, 's cage. But I'm not leaving this place unless I leave behind his corpse – or mine.geek'' The third instalment in the Red Queen series, picks up right after the final events of Glass Sword. Mare has been taken prisoner; shackled in Silent Stone and powerless without her lightning''boffin'' get bandied around by folk who somehow think it's your fault your cleverness makes them feel a bit dim. At But how does it feel to be the mercy of the boy who wears the crownone surrounded by such geniuses all day every day? Fortunately, Mare Jack is haunted by the consequences of her past decisions. Tortured a resilient sort, and weakhis common sense approach to life is going to be essential if he, Mare has a front seat Ava and Matt are going to survive their trip to watch Maven's clever tactics unfold and destroy all that she believes inAntarctica. Being broken and beaten, Mare will never be the same again after her captivity but can she escape the Palace with her life to fight another day? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14091511901419723030</amazonuk>

|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma ShoardSherri Smith|title= The Pavee and the Buffer GirlFollow Me Down|rating= 54|genre= Graphic NovelsThrillers|summary=When Jim's family halt at Dundray, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy to attend. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And you know, you couldn't really blame him because the distrust and suspicion Mia is mutual. Prejudice against done with the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn small town she grew up on their first dayin, but it's only takes one phone call to stares bring her back. Her twin brother Lucas is missing and muttered insults from , worse still, has been implicated in the pupils and condescension from the teachersdeath of one of his students. Within days, Moss Cunningham and Without him there to speak for himself it becomes her job to defend his gang have accused Jim reputation while trying to get to the bottom of stealing a CD - he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threats, bullying and worseeverything that has gone on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19113700491785654047</amazonuk>