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|author=Cameron Bloom and Bradley Taylor Greive

|title=Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family

|rating=5

|genre=Biography

|summary=Cameron and his wife, Sam, had been leading a very active, adventurous life. Even after the birth of their three sons they wanted to continue their adventures, so they decided to travel to Thailand for a family holiday. They were having a brilliant time until, suddenly, Sam was involved in a dreadful, almost fatal, accident. The accident left her paralysed and, because of the sudden and extremely severe impact on her life she slid quickly into a very deep and dark depression. Cameron feared for his family's future, and his wife's life, until one day a small abandoned magpie chick came along, and managed to change everything.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119795</amazonuk>

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|author= Harlan Coben

|summary=There is nothing else for it but to declare my love for ''Danger Mouse'' (and no, I don't mean the musician/producer, or the remake, which I've not sampled). What I didn't know at the time to call 'breaking the fourth wall', the chutzpah and energy of the storytelling, and primarily the simple and simply brilliant character design made it one of my go-to sources for entertainment, and about the only thing that would get the TV switched to ITV, apart from ''Blockbusters''. The dates on the front of this volume prove we're referring to the genius original series, but these contents seem to me fully new. Taking it that they are, has the idea stood the test of time, and will people be on board for what is surely a much-belated tribute gift book?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753545225</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Alan MacDonald and David Roberts~~

~~|title=Monster! (Dirty Bertie)~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Emerging Readers~~

|summary=Two things in fiction for the under-sevens seem to be very, very unlikely, at this stage. One is that Dirty Bertie does something sensible, like what his parents tell him, or succeeds for the right reasons at school, or perhaps tidies up. The other unlikely thing seems to be that the Dirty Bertie franchise runs out of ideas. Here are three more stories, for a lively spot on the transition between being read to and reading by yourself, and the quality is pretty much as good as before. Yes, it's evident that in these pages, Bertie and his friends are just as ''bad'' as before.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157254</amazonuk>~~

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