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• Time Atlas: An Interactive Timeline of History by Robert Hegarty and Marcelo Badari
  |date=August 2017 ...ture. It is, after all, vital we know not only where we are, but where we may be going…
  3 KB (556 words) - 10:48, 27 March 2018
• The Ghost in the Bath by Jeremy Strong and Scoular Anderson
  |date=June 2017 ...years old, but an 'interest' set for anyone from seven to twelve. Now you may think a book that took me twenty minutes to read will struggle to totally a
  3 KB (529 words) - 08:50, 8 May 2018
• Parallel Lines by Steven Savile
  |date=March 2017 ...a bank, but in doing so interweaves his life with a group of hostages that may be more on his side than you would think.
  4 KB (648 words) - 14:22, 10 March 2018
• SuperDad's Day Off by Phil Earle
  |date=April 2017 ...insisting her superhero husband took a day off. The illustrations by Steve May are great and complement the text perfectly.
  3 KB (487 words) - 12:17, 17 April 2018
• A Bientot... by Roger Moore
  |date=September 2017 The news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one of those people you knew would go on for
  3 KB (548 words) - 15:49, 29 August 2020
• The Giant's Necklace by Michael Morpurgo and Briony May Smith
  |author=Michael Morpurgo and Briony May Smith |date=July 2017
  3 KB (544 words) - 08:32, 25 April 2018
• Can You Keep a Secret? by Karen Perry
  |date= November 2017 Cleverly written, the chapters alternate between 2017 and 1991, with the friends' teenage years brilliantly setting the scene for
  3 KB (579 words) - 14:52, 4 August 2021
• The Book of Mirrors by E O Chirovici
  |date=January 2017 ...wanted to write and then lost his way and meandered to a conclusion which may have some screaming ''is that it?''. The key questions raised in this book
  4 KB (667 words) - 14:52, 6 March 2018
• Fighting Fantasy: The Port of Peril by Ian Livingstone
  |date=August 2017 ...by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]], I took to the brand-new-for-2017 volume with my pen, mapping paper, and most importantly, dice. For the fir
  7 KB (1,226 words) - 16:11, 16 February 2018
• Amazing Animal Babies by Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft
  |date=February 2017 ...ther random journey spying on animals and their children. A double spread may have two of three different creatures and tell us some facts about them –
  3 KB (564 words) - 13:24, 25 August 2020
• Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
  |date=January 2017 ...provement. Readers looking for quick answers, bullet points or sound bites may be disappointed as Duhigg's approach is to focus on case studies, told with
  3 KB (548 words) - 19:39, 3 August 2020
• 1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over by John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller
  |date=October 2017 You may think me lazy, but there is an inherent satisfaction for book reviewers in
  3 KB (571 words) - 17:57, 17 February 2018
• The Grumpface by B C R Fegan and Daniela Frongia
  |date=May 2017 ...r seller, Bella, Dan's love interest, to have had a more active role. It's 2017 and girls aren't objects that boys ''win'' through feats of valour. But tha
  4 KB (701 words) - 09:50, 19 September 2020
• Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
  |date=January 2017 ...breathtaking journey. The book conveys his emotions perfectly and readers may need a pack of tissues on hand as it reaches its conclusion.
  3 KB (534 words) - 10:51, 26 February 2018
• The Invisible Crowd by Ellen Wiles
  |date=November 2017 ...n’t think. So much of this novel is about ignorance; though the characters may not be immediately appealing, we do understand them. This way of thinking,
  5 KB (780 words) - 13:41, 1 March 2018
• Alison Jay's ABC by Alison Jay
  |date=July 2017 ...n – finding some of them will require a very sharp eye, and older siblings may have to be drafted in to help. And that's not all! There is even a very loo
  3 KB (434 words) - 14:05, 28 March 2018
• The Glump and the Peeble by Wendy Meddour and Rebecca Ashdown
  |date=January 2017 ...out in your thirties and know who you are and what you want to do. Things may have happened a little quicker if you had read more books as a child all ab
  4 KB (721 words) - 15:45, 10 April 2018
• Dr Seuss's ABC by Dr Seuss
  |date=March 2017 ...If a picture of a Ball bores you, a bunch of bubbles, barbers and babies may be more exciting. Seuss' patented illustrations and colour scheme also hel
  3 KB (605 words) - 14:34, 16 August 2020
• Under the Same Sky by Britta Teckentrup
  |date=May 2017 If you enjoyed this you may wish to try another charming picture book that portrays us as one united wo
  3 KB (492 words) - 09:38, 19 July 2018
• The End of the Day by Claire North
  |date=April 2017 ...he North Pole - he gets everywhere. From jungles to deserts to tundra, you may come across Charlie. Would you shake him by the hand, take the gift he offe
  4 KB (650 words) - 14:13, 19 February 2018

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