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|author=Jon Scieszka and Mary Blair
|title=Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=I'll take is as read you have some knowledge of the story of Alice in Wonderland – certainly when she got to be 150 years old a couple of years back there were no end of editions of her story. And as you know, 150 years is a heck of a lot of unbirthdays. But her story got to be slightly different, and if anything only more loved, courtesy of the Disney cartoon, and the fact that this book features artwork that was generated during the production of that film is the unique selling point.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405287004</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Moonrise
|summary= At the start of a new school year parents often ask for recommendations for books that would help make things a little easier for those about to start school for the first time or for slightly older children making the transition to Junior School. This vibrant and cheerful picture book contains much in both text and images that would be useful and encouraging for anxious children and equally anxious parents.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808980</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay and Jeremy Melloul (translator)
|title=Water Memory
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Despite the title, it seems at first the memories here are much more earthy, for Caroline has brought her young daughter to the place she herself left as a toddler. The move has been caused by a break-up, and it's just the two of them in the family unit, making a fresh start (with the help of a kindly old neighbour) in an old house on a promontory of the Brittany coast. Young Marion soon discovers the clifftops are peppered with strange standing stones, with even stranger figures, initials and dates carved on to them. She also soon works out there is a way to get across a causeway at low tide to the local lighthouse, manned as it is by a gruff, surly old man. But while Caroline's beginning anew starts with a nice local job, things are slowly getting more creepy. Large sea creatures are beaching themselves, the stones' imagery is found in even stranger places - and the lighthousekeeper seems to hold darker secrets. What memory could possibly be in this storm-drenched land?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1941302432</amazonuk>
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