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• Dragon Danger and Grasshopper Glue (Wizzbang Wizard) by Scoular Anderson
  ...ocabulary selection and two stories in one give the child a chance to feel a sense of achievement. ..., when inevitably opened, contains a girl wizard called Jakaranda, sent on a mission to fight the evil wizard Beetleboot.
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• While We Sleep... the Dream Snatchers Cometh! by Wolfren Riverstick
  |summary=A story of great originality about the battle between the Dremlocks and Inkyb ...on and the Dutch Hamster Sjaak. Guess what their house was called? Yup – it was Jacksonville.
  3 KB (520 words) - 12:54, 21 April 2018
• My Name is not Refugee by Kate Milner
  |summary=A gentle explanation of the current refugee crisis. Younger children will un ...adventure, but sometimes they're going to be on their own and it will get a bit boring, but sometimes they'll be with other people and he must remember
  3 KB (511 words) - 22:48, 2 March 2018
• A Dog Called Bear by Diane Fox and Christyan Fox
  |title=A Dog Called Bear |sort=Dog Called Bear
  4 KB (668 words) - 15:27, 26 February 2018
• Emily's Numbers by Joss Langford
  |summary= A book to enchant the child who is confident with numbers and who is open to discovering some of the ma ...f the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)
  4 KB (674 words) - 11:29, 13 October 2020
• Parenting through the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza
  |title=Parenting through the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood |summary=Engaging memoir and a twist on the usual parenting book as Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza recalls her chi
  4 KB (707 words) - 12:13, 2 September 2020
• Billy Monster's Daymare by Alan Durant and Ross Collins
  |summary=Billy Monster has daymares - he keeps dreaming that he's seen a child and terrified that one might be lurking under the bad. Highly recommended b ...h his Daddy ''In a darkish, creepy wood... In a darkish spooky house... In a darkish, gloomy bedroom... ''
  4 KB (675 words) - 07:57, 19 August 2020
• A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw
  |title=A Child Called Happiness |sort=Child Called Happiness
  5 KB (840 words) - 15:39, 25 May 2018
• A Cat Called Ian by Wolfren Riverstick
  |title=A Cat Called Ian |sort= Cat Called Ian
  3 KB (582 words) - 14:35, 16 August 2020
• Emily Brown and the Thing by Cressida Cowell
  ...y with him so that he isn't alone in the dark. A marvellous book to help a child talk about its fears. Highly recommended. ...eping them awake.'' SPLISH! ''went the noise.'' SPLOSH! '' went the noise. It seemed to be coming from the window.''
  4 KB (710 words) - 09:28, 19 August 2020
• Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons
  |title=Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) ...ck to Kim Stone's past ''quite'' as much as earlier books have done. It's a good, engaging story which had me gripped from neginning to end and I didn'
  3 KB (622 words) - 17:48, 3 July 2019
• Moo! Said Morris by Jon Lycett-Smith
  ...cture book you don't mind reading for the twentieth time this weekend with a lovely twist to enjoy. Definitely recommended There was a little mouse called Morris and he was a very unusual mouse. Whilst all the other mice said ''Squeak'', Morris said
  2 KB (413 words) - 11:45, 7 October 2020
• Wednesday's Child by Peter Robinson
  |title=Wednesday's Child ...hief Inspector Alan Banks was investigating a particularly nasty murder at a derelict mill and the team had their hands full.
  3 KB (425 words) - 11:46, 8 March 2018
• Lots by Marc Martin
  ...erence, with lots and lots of random facts well illustrated, but is it all a little too random to be useful? ...do with giant tomes filled with information and perhaps, if you are lucky, a small black and white picture every now and again; the kids get full colour
  3 KB (592 words) - 09:11, 7 September 2020
• My School Day by Ellen Crimi-Trent
  |summary=A lovely, bold, interactive book for parents and children to share. ...the senses of sight and touch can be an effective method of teaching. The child is learning through play and having lots of fun at the same time.
  3 KB (492 words) - 16:27, 4 April 2018
• Sprinkles! Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts by Jackie Alpers
  ...s broadly described as sprinkles. It's not exactly a healthy option - but it is colourful fun. ...cnic and he'd gone to town on the food. The pudding was decorated but the child seemed distracted:
  3 KB (568 words) - 13:42, 10 April 2018
• Busy Alice in Wonderland
  |summary=A well-made and thoroughly enjoyable board book which will serve as an excell ...o accept that I'm the exception rather than the rule. A friend who ''is'' a fan was chatting to me recently and lamented the fact that her grandchild w
  3 KB (514 words) - 11:54, 27 November 2015
• Ripley's Believe It or Not 2013 by Robert Leroy Ripley
  |title=Ripley's Believe It or Not 2013 ...llous, the freakish and the gut-turning. It's all here and kids will love it.
  3 KB (555 words) - 19:59, 23 March 2018
• The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum) by Tom Toner
  |summary= This is the second book in a hugely ambitious science fiction series, and, like the first book, the acti ...s, I feel like I have just had a brief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in the plot, but even more is happening, and has happene
  4 KB (718 words) - 08:12, 8 May 2018
• The King Who Didn't Like Snow by Jocelyn Porter and Michael S Kane (Illustrator)
  ...n engaging story which will encourage children to talk about their fears. It's well-written with great illustrations ...ld'' not to read them, he did - and turned bright green and grew as big as a cuddly pillow. He'd zapped himself. Obviously, he couldn't now live in th
  4 KB (660 words) - 10:42, 18 September 2021
• Vengeance by Lee Child (Editor)
  |author=Lee Child (Editor) ...ies: some are really well written, others less so, but being short stories it's very easy to skip ahead if you're not enjoying one and try out another.
  4 KB (603 words) - 13:46, 26 September 2020
• Fangs 'n' Fire by Chris Mould
  |summary= A beautifully illustrated book, but the content isn't really up to scratch. ...or at least interested in dragons. It also shows a lack of imagination as it's not mandatory for every dragon to be Smaug.
  3 KB (517 words) - 11:08, 11 August 2020
• My Cat Called Red by Jane Lightbourne
  |title=My Cat Called Red ...th a magic purr. A boy lost in grief. Can grandfather bring them together? A sweet, engaging story.
  3 KB (554 words) - 12:43, 21 May 2022
• Belle and Boo and the Very Merry Christmas by Mandy Sutcliffe
  ...eds someone to help him out. Thankfully, his best friend is a little girl called Belle and she knows what to do. Join them in this sweet and nostalgia fuel ...o stand out in the crowd. Before you can release a Christmas book though, it would help if all the characters knew what Christmas was. Thankfully, Boo
  3 KB (602 words) - 16:48, 28 March 2018
• Baggy Brown and the Royal Baby by Mick Inkpen
  |summary=A heart-warming story about a boy's love for his bear and his quest to return the bear to its rightful ow We reviewed this book when it was first published as [[Baggy Brown by Mick Inkpen|Baggy Brown]]. Here's
  4 KB (652 words) - 15:17, 26 August 2020
• Never Coming Home by Evonne Wareham
  ...man, Devlin, to help her find her daughter but in order to do so there is a shocking truth that needs to be uncovered. ...ne but when he spots photographs of Jamie, he realises that she is not the child who died in his arms.
  3 KB (560 words) - 07:26, 7 October 2020
• A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
  |title=A Place Called Winter |sort=Place Called Winter, A
  4 KB (752 words) - 14:02, 29 September 2020
• Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
  ...terature. It's highly recommended by The Bookbag. Every child should have a copy. ...g the number of times that the grandfather clock strikes becomes a habit. It's an unnerving thirteen which persuades Tom to go down to the communal hall
  4 KB (628 words) - 11:22, 6 March 2018
• The Lost Child by Suzanne McCourt
  |title=The Lost Child |sort=Lost Child
  5 KB (812 words) - 16:11, 17 March 2018
• Baggy Brown by Mick Inkpen
  |summary=A heart-warming story about a boy's love for his bear and his quest to return the bear to its rightful ow ...A NOT FOR SALE notice was stuck on his nose and a NO 1 tag in his ear, but it was the NOT FOR SALE notice which proved his undoing. He didn't line himsel
  4 KB (644 words) - 11:13, 13 August 2020
• My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
  ...a little girl learning about life, the world and her grandmother's part in it. ...son behind Gran the superhero. Will it enforce her hero status or destroy it?
  5 KB (771 words) - 16:14, 29 August 2020
• Snatch by Gregory Mcdonald
  ...of an author and compiling a larger book consisting of similar stories is a great way of reusing stock that you already have. Hard Case Crime have don ...res and kidnapping of a young Duke during the Second World War, originally called ''Safekeeping''. Both have victims who are young precocious boys who have
  4 KB (624 words) - 11:50, 11 March 2018
• Home by Toni Morrison
  ...al experimentation. It sounds grim stuff, but while life is hard, it's not a traumatically difficult read. ...Wars tended to ignore the Korean war because no one knew what the point of it was.
  4 KB (628 words) - 11:17, 31 August 2020
• Charlie's Monsters (Nightmare Academy) by Dean Lorey
  ...e simplistic. The emotional landscape is rather uncomplicated, making this a fun read for thrill seekers of late primary age. ...s to sleep is a mystery to them. For Charlie is a particularly imaginative child. His dreams attract Class 5 Nether creatures, and anyone with the imaginati
  4 KB (591 words) - 10:57, 19 April 2018
• Crunch! by Carolina Rabei
  |summary=A gorgeous picture book with a couple of morals delivered in a non-preachy manner. Highly recommended. |publisher=Child's Play (International)
  2 KB (420 words) - 11:42, 29 March 2018
• Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail) by DK
  ...ards if they got the chance. Better play safe than sorry and just get them a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariously. ...ce to have something like ''Baby Dinosaurs'' at hand when your child is in a particularly hands on mood.
  4 KB (633 words) - 18:22, 19 March 2018
• Keras by Simon Rae
  ...young boy discovers a unicorn in the woods near his home and tries to keep it secret. Ever since reading ''The Enchanted Wood'' as I child, I always enjoyed stories about children who had the freedom to explore the
  3 KB (491 words) - 10:44, 23 April 2018
• Granny Grabber's Whizz Bang World by Charlotte Haptie
  ...mmon sense than several parents, a firm called The Happy Home Robotics and a King. ...fter all, a robot can be programmed to do exactly what you want it to, and it never has Ideas or Feelings or Imagination. As the instructions in the box
  3 KB (589 words) - 16:05, 22 April 2018
• Mr Pusskins and Little Whiskers by Sam Lloyd
  ...e great humour, this is recommended for children aged 3-5, especially with a sibling. ...imal fable. That does sound rather serious, doesn't it? But we are talking a picture book for children here, and the story in ''Mr Pusskins and Little W
  4 KB (676 words) - 13:46, 14 May 2018
• The Classic Adventures of Paddington by Michael Bond and Peggy Fortnum (Illustrator)
  |summary=A collection of the eleven original books of stories published between 1959 a [[A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond|A Bear Called Paddington]] was first published in 1958.
  3 KB (411 words) - 08:20, 24 April 2018
• The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett
  ...cept duck - until he finds the biggest one of them all. ''The Odd Egg'' is a beautifully-illustrated visual joke which will entertain adults and childre ...t incubating the egg and Flamingo is perched rather precariously on top of a very big egg.
  3 KB (515 words) - 13:20, 4 March 2018
• Tuesday by David Wiesner
  |summary=A book to delight the imagination and which is completely free of any moralis ...and to adults in equal measure? Well, he's called David Wiesner and he's a genius.
  3 KB (492 words) - 16:38, 7 March 2018
• Little Nothing by Marisa Silver
  ...d. A tale that stands with those famous fairy tales written years ago, yet a book immensely relevant for our modern day society. ...h their children as they pass on narrow market lanes. Pavla is no ordinary child, but then this is no ordinary tale.
  4 KB (732 words) - 11:47, 19 February 2018
• The Weight of Water by Penelope Evans
  ...uggle to come to terms with the changes in her life – perfect to devour on a slightly chilly, spooky evening. ...irl in a white summer dress and red shoes who stands poised on the edge of a riverbank, ready to step in and be swept away.
  3 KB (577 words) - 11:47, 18 September 2020
• My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres by Amelie Julien
  ...mother can be - delivered in English and French. What better way to learn a language? ...there's doing yoga in front of the television, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funny. We won't go into too much detail about what goes on in the
  4 KB (658 words) - 10:56, 28 August 2020
• I Love You, Little Monster by Giles Andreae and Jess Mikhail
  ...with some heartfelt sentiments that will surely leave a warm feeling once it has been read. ...to say all of the things that he should say, but it is easy to do so when it is dark.
  3 KB (529 words) - 12:37, 2 March 2018
• Convertible Spaceship by Claire Philip and Belinda Gallagher
  ...a book that not only contains a story, but also changes into a playmat and a spaceship. ...Spaceship’ you get all three; a book that folds out into a playmat or into a spaceship. Can I hear the excitement from here?
  4 KB (734 words) - 11:29, 29 March 2018
• Tim the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill
  ...ve a warm glow in a reader. Probably more appreciated by a grown up than a child, though. ...it's "typical Harry Hill" and will make an attempt at reviewing ''Tim'' as a stand-alone.
  4 KB (648 words) - 12:18, 23 March 2018
• Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts
  ...is book work so well together to show how valuable imagination can be to a child. Recommended. ...a girl could ask for in the way of toys, books, games and dollies. She's a very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination and everything in h
  3 KB (554 words) - 08:06, 17 August 2021
• The House on the Lake by Nuala Ellwood
  |summary=A deeply unnerving look at the relationships between parents and their childr ...o was alone in the house is taken away by the police, but it's going to be a while before we learn exactly what has happened.
  3 KB (522 words) - 16:43, 11 August 2020

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