Little Tiger ISBN 9781788951937 £5.99 A pony story with a difference. Not only is Daisy struggling with her emotions because her best friend Mara is in hospital with cancer, but she is also being teased and bullied at school by Jack Wilson. The only thing that seems to be able to lighten her life is coming…
Templar Press ISBN 9781787415331 £14.99 This is such an exciting book. We meet current pets – guinea pig, budgerigar, corn snake, cat, goldfish, dog and horse. Dr Dean Lomax is a palaeontologist and Ichthyosaur expert who traces back each pet’s family tree using fossil clues so we see what the pet’s great, great, great, great, GREAT grandparents looked like. There is…
Hachette Books ISBN: 9781444952049 £9.99 Toto the Ninja Cat is the fourth title published by TV presenter turned author. Inspired by his real life cats, one of whom is named Toto, this lively and entertaining riotous romp will keep many young readers turning the pages. Nicely illustrated throughout by Nick East, with some double full spreads,…
Wren & Rook ISBN 9781526362117 £14.99 The author is a human spaceflight expert and a huge space enthusiast, and this enthusiasm comes through in all these short stories based on actual events. The stories are in chronological order and go from the Sputnik flight to future space trips to Mars. Each episode is just as…
OUP ISBN 9780192775078 £20 This fabulous edition is a suitable tribute to Pippi Longstocking in her 75th anniversary year. Lauren Child’s superb illustrations enhance the text. Astrid Lindgren published more than one hundred books in her lifetime and is still the most popular children’s author in Sweden. Her books have been translated into more than sixty…
Piccadilly Press ISBN 9781848128118 £14.99 Konnie Huq is already well known to older children and adults as a Blue Peter presenter, and more recently to younger fans as the author and illustrator of the Cookie books. She has now turned her hand to writing a reimagined set of fairy tales, with co-author James Kay. Here we have…
Tate Publishing ISBN 9781849767347 £11.99 A beautifully illustrated book about Katherine, after Katherine Johnson, the American mathematician who helped to send astronauts to the moon. Katherine’s family have passions of their own. Her father likes painting, her mother studies insects and her brother enjoys music. Katherine has tried a variety of activities, including acting, ballet,…
Hachette Books ISBN 9781444958799 £9.99 A welcome third instalment from Shane Hegarty and Boot the robot brings us “Boot: the Creaky Creatures”. The central premise of this series is the protagonist Boot – a plucky toy robot – in the futurescape city he lives in, (resembling at times, Bladerunner for children, with dark graffiti filled alleyways, flying…
Balestier Press ISBN 9781911221258 £12.99 This book came about as a result of the author’s work on an assisted reading programme in a London primary school. She found herself searching for stories that would sufficiently engage some of the children who lacked the intrinsic motivation to read, and in particular some of the Muslim children for…
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