Little Gestalten ISBN9783899558425 £12.95 This book is perfect for lockdown! It is full of inspiring and thought-provoking messages in a child-friendly format, incorporating vibrant pictures and simple instructions. I really enjoy the way the activities are interspersed with key messages about watching out for our destructive footprints and always taking care to put wildlife’s welfare before our…
Little Tiger Press Ltd. ISBN: 978-1-912756-44-5 £9.99 As it states on the back cover ” With Giant Action Flaps and Mind Blowing Facts ” this board book is packed with the most incredible creatures in the sea. This is a really good educational book for children as an introduction to a vast array of sea…
Little Tiger ISBN 9781788951111 £7.99 In this satisfyingly chunky book for newly independent readers we meet Midge, unhappy after his parents split up and having to move to a new school. Sunny Mo is given the job of befriending him but no matter how she tries nothing works. Then Mo’s teacher reminds her that she too…
Hodder ISBN:9781444952971 £6.99 At the start of the summer holidays, Jack feels depressed and lonely. An only child, he often has to prepare food for his Dad who works long hours at the animal home. Luckily new neighbours recently moved in and the tearaway brothers Bruno and Rocco are more than happy to invite Jack…
Hodder Children’s Books ISBN 9781444938906 £5.99 This is the hard-pressed teacher’s answer to prayer, especially but not essentially if they are still including a study of WW2 in their history curriculum: a play about the evacuation, the Manchester blitz and its effects on the lives of all those caught up in any or all of…
Chicken House Books (www.doublecluck.com) ISBN 9781912626069 £6.99 This is an exciting read with plenty of action and humour. Milton continues his #notscaredofspiders campaign started in his previous book. Struggling with the pressures of his new found fame, Milton decides to take a break in Hawaii and find his father. En route he and his…
Hachette Books ISBN 9781408357859 £5.99 For those children who are familiar with the juggernaut that is the ‘Beast Quest’ set of series, this book will need no introduction, except to say that this is the new series: ‘New Blood’. However, for those of you who are less familiar with the idea, (even though there are…
Dragonfly – Firefly Press. ISBN 9781913102104 £5.99 An easy to read, fast paced story for 6-9s.This is the third in a series of books about a boy called Jams and his mischievous monkey called Thimble. It stands alone in its own right but I’m sure once read children will want to read the other two…
Otter-Barry ISBN 9781910959640 £6.99 Not all mums are the same and not all mums are humans. This collection of poems has an A to Z of a wide variety of them from Action Mum to Zzzz Mum. You will find mums you recognise (I’m afraid I’m the ‘Anxious Mum’! – ‘Don’t forget your toothbrush, darling,…