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|title=This Close by Jessica Francis Kane
|author=Jessica Francis Kane
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=
'This Close' is a sensitively written collection of short stories exploring the fragile nature of the bonds connecting friends, neighbours and family. As the title suggests, most of the stories contain pivotal moments where a missed opportunity, fleeting as it may be, can propel a person along a path culminating in regret or loss. Each story is poignantly written and perceptively observed. As a reader, I was drawn in and became so emotionally involved with the characters that it was often impossible to close the book until I knew how each story ended.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1555976360</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Taking four families, from different social positions, Edward Rutherfurd weaves these family histories into the history of Paris and France. We encounter the noble de Cygnes, the bourgeois Blanchards, the lower class Gascons and the revolutionary Le Sourds. Their lives cross paths through the years in often unexpected ways and while ''Paris'' is an historical fiction novel, this is as much an epic story of families as it is about the history.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736795</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pranas T Naujokaitis
|title=The Radically Awesome Adventures of the Animal Princess: Balloon Toons
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=I know so many parents who are completely fed up with the stereotyped role of little girls and especially princesses in stories. If you are looking for stories with a totally different type of princess, then this book is for you. The little princess, or Animal Princess as she is known, is most certainly not a damsel in distress. She is an active heroine boldly seeking adventure, and the messier the better. Rather than looking like a beauty pageant winner in a formal gown, the little Animal Princess looks refreshingly child like in the illustrations. I am delighted to see a princess drawn with the proportions of an ordinary child rather than a Barbie doll. She also prefers nice comfortable animal pyjamas to ball gowns.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>160905296X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Cleary and Kanako Usui
|title=My Friend Fred (the Plant)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=I loved comic books as a child. As an adult. I love them even more as wonderful way to encourage literacy in young children. Unfortunately comic books for children are hard to come by now, and there are very few books in this format for children under age 8. Ballooon Toons seems poised to change this with a delightful new series of children's books printed in comic book style format, but with a sturdy hardback binding.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052951</amazonuk>
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