Frances Lincoln Children’s Books ISBN 9781847808141 £6.99 Laurence Anholt’s Artists series of eight celebrates famous artists through true stories about the real children who knew them. The little dancer is Marie van Goethen who dreams of becoming the most famous ballerina in the world. Degas visited her ballet school in Paris where he drew the…
Bloomsbury ISBN 9781408864838 £6.99 This wonderfully nostalgic title harks back to the years of Listen with Mother on the BBC and is so familiar, it features in the Oxford Book of Quotations. Here, Leigh Hodgkinson manages to give it a timeless feel. A small person is hunting for the perfect place to sit and read a book (hurrah!),…
Orion Children’s Books ISBN 9781444010749 £7.99 Not one but two terrific stories in the Spymaster series – in Deadly Storm the action takes place whilst Henry VIII is travelling and is cut off by a flooded river and a destroyed bridge. Taking cover in an isolated castle, with only a few retainers, the King is in deadly…
Wayland ISBN 978526300003 £13.99 This book is part of the important ‘And other big questions’ series that offers balanced considerations on big issues and hot topics. Readers are encouraged to think for themselves about the concept of gender and the impact it can have on their life. This book discusses topics including sex, intersex, gender…
Quarry (Quarto books) ISBN 9781631594250 £10.99 This is the first book that I have seen which is dedicated to the world of ‘Slime’ and I had not realized that it is such a world-wide phenomenon. The author is a young, (currently 16 years), social media star with a series of videos on Instagram and in…
Bloomsbury ISBN 9781408 884751 £7.99 The excerpt from a Guardian review on the front cover of this book states it is ‘Extraordinary… as moving, strange and profound as Skellig’. And, I couldn’t have put it better myself! This is a truly haunting and original story; it is exquisitely written. Both the dialogue in the text and the narrative…
Penguin Random House ISBN 9780141357058 £6.99 I found this book rather a trial to engage with initially. Its clipped prose and unconventional presentation of dialogue was, I felt, rather clunky and uninviting. However, for purposes of this review I ‘stuck with it’ and found myself ultimately drawn into the plight of Alex, his Golden Ipod…
Nosy Crow Published in conjunction with the National Trust ISBN 9780857639011 £6.99 John Drawbridge is a very young page in a large Medieval Castle, and is learning to become a knight. As often happened at the time, young boys were sent to rich and influential patrons to be trained for their future role in society.…
Wide Eyed Editions ISBN 9781847808608 £14.99 Music in some form or other pervades our lives, yet for many who neither sing nor play an instrument, it remains a subject they feel they know little about. How fortunate, therefore, that 7-12 year olds can now access this excitingly ambitious introduction to the subject in a creative…
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