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• Vengeance by Lee Child (Editor)
  |author=Lee Child (Editor) ...ies: some are really well written, others less so, but being short stories it's very easy to skip ahead if you're not enjoying one and try out another.
  4 KB (603 words) - 13:46, 26 September 2020
• Fangs 'n' Fire by Chris Mould
  |summary= A beautifully illustrated book, but the content isn't really up to scratch. ...or at least interested in dragons. It also shows a lack of imagination as it's not mandatory for every dragon to be Smaug.
  3 KB (517 words) - 11:08, 11 August 2020
• My Cat Called Red by Jane Lightbourne
  |title=My Cat Called Red ...th a magic purr. A boy lost in grief. Can grandfather bring them together? A sweet, engaging story.
  3 KB (554 words) - 12:43, 21 May 2022
• Belle and Boo and the Very Merry Christmas by Mandy Sutcliffe
  ...eds someone to help him out. Thankfully, his best friend is a little girl called Belle and she knows what to do. Join them in this sweet and nostalgia fuel ...o stand out in the crowd. Before you can release a Christmas book though, it would help if all the characters knew what Christmas was. Thankfully, Boo
  3 KB (602 words) - 16:48, 28 March 2018
• Baggy Brown and the Royal Baby by Mick Inkpen
  |summary=A heart-warming story about a boy's love for his bear and his quest to return the bear to its rightful ow We reviewed this book when it was first published as [[Baggy Brown by Mick Inkpen|Baggy Brown]]. Here's
  4 KB (652 words) - 15:17, 26 August 2020
• Never Coming Home by Evonne Wareham
  ...man, Devlin, to help her find her daughter but in order to do so there is a shocking truth that needs to be uncovered. ...ne but when he spots photographs of Jamie, he realises that she is not the child who died in his arms.
  3 KB (560 words) - 07:26, 7 October 2020
• A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
  |title=A Place Called Winter |sort=Place Called Winter, A
  4 KB (752 words) - 14:02, 29 September 2020
• Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
  ...terature. It's highly recommended by The Bookbag. Every child should have a copy. ...g the number of times that the grandfather clock strikes becomes a habit. It's an unnerving thirteen which persuades Tom to go down to the communal hall
  4 KB (628 words) - 11:22, 6 March 2018
• The Lost Child by Suzanne McCourt
  |title=The Lost Child |sort=Lost Child
  5 KB (812 words) - 16:11, 17 March 2018
• Baggy Brown by Mick Inkpen
  |summary=A heart-warming story about a boy's love for his bear and his quest to return the bear to its rightful ow ...A NOT FOR SALE notice was stuck on his nose and a NO 1 tag in his ear, but it was the NOT FOR SALE notice which proved his undoing. He didn't line himsel
  4 KB (644 words) - 11:13, 13 August 2020
• My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
  ...a little girl learning about life, the world and her grandmother's part in it. ...son behind Gran the superhero. Will it enforce her hero status or destroy it?
  5 KB (771 words) - 16:14, 29 August 2020
• Snatch by Gregory Mcdonald
  ...of an author and compiling a larger book consisting of similar stories is a great way of reusing stock that you already have. Hard Case Crime have don ...res and kidnapping of a young Duke during the Second World War, originally called ''Safekeeping''. Both have victims who are young precocious boys who have
  4 KB (624 words) - 11:50, 11 March 2018
• Home by Toni Morrison
  ...al experimentation. It sounds grim stuff, but while life is hard, it's not a traumatically difficult read. ...Wars tended to ignore the Korean war because no one knew what the point of it was.
  4 KB (628 words) - 11:17, 31 August 2020
• Charlie's Monsters (Nightmare Academy) by Dean Lorey
  ...e simplistic. The emotional landscape is rather uncomplicated, making this a fun read for thrill seekers of late primary age. ...s to sleep is a mystery to them. For Charlie is a particularly imaginative child. His dreams attract Class 5 Nether creatures, and anyone with the imaginati
  4 KB (591 words) - 10:57, 19 April 2018
• Crunch! by Carolina Rabei
  |summary=A gorgeous picture book with a couple of morals delivered in a non-preachy manner. Highly recommended. |publisher=Child's Play (International)
  2 KB (420 words) - 11:42, 29 March 2018
• Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail) by DK
  ...ards if they got the chance. Better play safe than sorry and just get them a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariously. ...ce to have something like ''Baby Dinosaurs'' at hand when your child is in a particularly hands on mood.
  4 KB (633 words) - 18:22, 19 March 2018
• Keras by Simon Rae
  ...young boy discovers a unicorn in the woods near his home and tries to keep it secret. Ever since reading ''The Enchanted Wood'' as I child, I always enjoyed stories about children who had the freedom to explore the
  3 KB (491 words) - 10:44, 23 April 2018
• Granny Grabber's Whizz Bang World by Charlotte Haptie
  ...mmon sense than several parents, a firm called The Happy Home Robotics and a King. ...fter all, a robot can be programmed to do exactly what you want it to, and it never has Ideas or Feelings or Imagination. As the instructions in the box
  3 KB (589 words) - 16:05, 22 April 2018
• Mr Pusskins and Little Whiskers by Sam Lloyd
  ...e great humour, this is recommended for children aged 3-5, especially with a sibling. ...imal fable. That does sound rather serious, doesn't it? But we are talking a picture book for children here, and the story in ''Mr Pusskins and Little W
  4 KB (676 words) - 13:46, 14 May 2018
• The Classic Adventures of Paddington by Michael Bond and Peggy Fortnum (Illustrator)
  |summary=A collection of the eleven original books of stories published between 1959 a [[A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond|A Bear Called Paddington]] was first published in 1958.
  3 KB (411 words) - 08:20, 24 April 2018

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