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|author=L Frank Baum, Michel Laporte, Olivier Latyk and Vanessa Mieville (translator)

|title=The Wizard of Oz

|rating=4

|genre=Confident Readers

|summary=''Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Hollywood any more.'' And no, indeed we are not. We are in the realm of L Frank Baum, and not the cinema version of this fantasy quest story. So those slippers are silver and not ruby, the companions do not get given solid things that may imply they have achieved what they seek, and the flying monkeys played backwards do not work out to be singing Pink Floyd records, or whatever the urban myth was. Otherwise, we're pretty much on the same, assured, solid ground, with the greyness of Kansas (in a scene that seemed to foretell of the Dust Bowl decades later) being swapped for the quartet of queer, questing characters, the yellow bricked road and everything else you would want of a young reader adaptation of the novel.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191027738X</amazonuk>

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|author=Kate Jane Neal

|summary= Exodus is a book which, though fifteen years old, strikes some horrifying truths about the world we live in right at this moment. Set in a world ravaged by global warming and melting ice-caps, this is the story of the last inhabitants of an island called Wing, who set sail in search of a new life once Wing is sunk under the rising tide. It turns out to be a much wilder story than you'd thing, and one which dredges up so many interesting questions.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509854517</amazonuk>

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~~|author= Aaron Mahnke~~

~~|title= The World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures~~

~~|rating= 4.5~~

~~|genre= Reference~~

|summary= Every country, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on the dark and unexplained. No matter how the modern world moves on, there's a still a part of everyone that is vulnerable to a good tale. From ghosts to werewolves, by way of wendigos and elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the world, whilst examining how they've become part of our collective imaginations, still striking fear into the hearts of many of us today.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472251652</amazonuk>~~

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