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A colourful picture book about kindness, resilience and friendship. Simmie is a spider with nine legs. He’s great at weaving things but the other spiders leave him out and all he wants is to make friends. Trying to be helpful and make friends with a family at a local park doesn’t initially go well, with the family yelling at him to go away. Upset but undeterred, Simmie continues to be his helpful self, creating things that will help the family until they realise what he was doing. This is an interesting story about not changing who ... View Full Review
Billed as a “critical and creative thinking book for every kind of mind”, Phil Weiss’ Think Like the D-Squad begins with an engaging “Not-so Typical Author’s Note” in which Weiss shares personal detail on how his premature sons, “two kids who weren’t supposed to survive”, grew up into “two young men who figured out how to think their way through a world that wasn’t designed for them”, and background on how he, diagnosed as autistic later in life, was written off in school despite playing ... View Full Review
Return to Crouch end, an unusual corner of London for a magical story about believing in yourself and standing up to bullies. Peter is a 10 year-old boy who has a talent for writing and loves to run tirelessly around the park. However he is quiet and bullied at school, with his headteacher saying he needs to “learn to deal with this on his own”. While meeting his unusual neighbour Merlin, Peter is given a curious stone with special powers that could help him with his problems. The Tale Of The Boy Who Could Stop Time is a contemporary ... View Full Review
Melding history, mystery and magic, Alfie’s Gift opens with a direct address that invites readers to try to recognise themselves in the novel’s principle characters, with its Prologue posing an engaging thematic question (“Are you safe?”), both of which showcase how Alistair Rainey works to draw readers into his multi-dimensional story of finding courage. Alfie’s journey to bravery comes in the context of him being born premature, which resulted in his parents shielding him from “any hint of a dangerous situation”. Happily, though, even though Alfie had been “suffocated ... View Full Review
A gentle story with calming illustrations that turns the game of making pictures in the clouds into an encouragement to see the magic in the world around you. Ida is a daydreamer and loves to think up ideas, when Mr Lightning Strikes tasks her to put her daydreaming to good use and suggest ideas for the New Year party, Ida doesn’t disappoint. She suggests stopping time just long enough to create magical pictures in the sky that will have everyone on earth look up and marvel. The ambitious plan pays off and through the soft and calmly colourful ... View Full Review
A battle between good and evil takes place over the city zoo. Can four siblings help to save it from certain doom? Every four years there is a magic battle between good and evil. An ancient contest that gives the winners power to control the naughty kids and mischievous animals, which could be used to cause trouble around the world. This year that contest takes place at the City Zoo and the good witches, lead by Luna, and Bobby the wise Orangutan, decide it’s time to bring siblings Ania, Eada, George, and Conall in to help. The siblings ... View Full Review
A swashbuckling and confidence building adventure that pulls us into a world of sky pirates and on a treasure hunt. Chris and the Sky Pirates introduces us to Chris, a boy with cerebral palsy who is bullied at school for the way he walks. While trying to evade his bullies on the way home, he stumbles through a door that, in a Narnia-like fashion, transports him to a tavern filled with pirates. Still trying to hide lands him on a ship that sets sail to take part in The Great Hunt, Given the option to keep hiding or integrate with ... View Full Review
Available from Waterstones.
Rose has a skill for getting into trouble, but when that skill leads her to a strange art forgery spotted on a school trip and a mystery tied to her grandmother, she’s compelled to keep investigating regardless of the danger. With her best friend Sally, they work to uncover theft and betrayals as they try to clear Rose’s grandmother’s name, but will the search for clues put their friendship at risk too?
This is a twisty, fast-paced mystery with short, easy to read chapters for independent readers. The writing ... View Full Review
Cruella De Vil, the wicked woman who steals a litter of Dalmations puppies so that she can make herself a very special fur coat is one of the most feared villains of children’s fiction. The One Hundred and One Dalmations is a thrilling adventure with a most important mission at its heart. Pongo and Missus’s frantic pursuit of Cruella De Vil and the crooks who help her is a matter of life and death. Excellently filmed, the original story as told here remains a brilliant read. View Full Review
Available from Waterstones
Aang and JJ used to be the closest of friends before a clash led to them falling out. JJ is a Polish-Nigerian cheerleader keen on embracing as much of the American life as possible in the hopes she’ll finally find a place she fits in. Aang was born in America but has parents from Hong Kong and is doing everything possible to feel more a part of the Cantonese community. A meeting with the overburdened guidance counsellor leads to JJ re-joining the Mathletes, and Aang starting cheerleading to diversify their college resumes. Both have championships ... View Full Review
Available from PaulBright.co.uk
This 132 page book has a wonderful variety of poems of different lengths, formats and themes. Topics the author presents us with include school and teachers, animals, science and nature, family and friends, games, space and spooks, history, holidays and eating. The poems are often humorous and entertaining, sometimes witty and clever. There are also a few pages containing interesting facts interspersed within the poems. The book is perfect for readers of up to about 13/ 14 years of age. It's ideal to pick up when one feels like just reading a few poems ... View Full Review
Available from Amazon
An imaginative adventure to save Wonderland, The Teapocket Fellowship celebrates friendship, teamwork and storytelling. The author of Wonderland is going rogue, rewriting stories and causing mayhem. Alice and The Cheshire Cat recruit friends Eliza and Hugo as new authors to help restore fun and mischief.
Fans of Alice in Wonderland will enjoy seeing familiar characters in a new light. It was fun to see how the changes had an impact on wonderland, The White Rabbit worrying about being early, not late or Teapocket smelling of coffee created playful signs of the rogue author’s impact. Throughout ... View Full Review
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