Wayland ISBN 9781526311627 £12.99 This is one in the series of books ‘ A Question of Science’ and is an excellent addition. Fun illustration enhance each double spread are educational. The text is clear and very good specific illustrations are integrated well to make the book an inspirational learning volume for primary aged children. Older…
Macmillan Children’s Books ISBN: 978-1529003994 £6.99 Fans of the first book, The Umbrella Mouse, which won the 2019 Sainsbury’s Book Prize for Fiction and was chosen as a Waterstone’s Book of the Month, will not be disappointed with the sequel. This story picks up where the last book stopped. It is set during the final months…
Franklin Watts ISBN 9781445156170 £8.99 Life in Britain was transformed by the coming of the Romans in 43 BCE. This book tells us what happened from the point of view of those who lived it. The author uses a range of sources from archaeology, written records and other events to help the reader understand what…
Oxford University Press ISBN 9780192775092 £6.99 This is a story that will stretch the imagination of the reader. There are probably, in reality, a number of places in the world that are undiscovered even now, and Joe Wilson uses this theme for his novel. This story about a secret island that can only be located…
Frances Lincoln Children’s Books ISBN: 9780711241534 £12.99 This appealing book is part of a series I had not come across before. Mary Hoffman is more familiar to me as the author of the wonderful “Amazing Grace”, but how well she is suited to non-fiction! This is child-friendly information at its best, providing an introduction to how our…
Lion Fiction ISBN 9780745977874 £6.99 This is a 19th century science fantasy, murder-mystery set in an enchanting museum, inspired by the Natural History Museum, with some aspects of Hogwarts, and Sherlock’s mind palace. It tells the story of Ree, a girl who works as a stonemason disguised as a boy. Accompanied by Phil, a rather stubborn dodo,…
Big Picture Press ISBN 9781787415355 £20 This is an absolutely stunning book. The large pages of this robust hardback offer mesmerising detailed artwork together with information presented in an accessible way. Ester Gaya is a senior research leader at Kew and an expert on fungi. Katie Scott’s sumptuous illustrations draw you in to the mysterious…
Macmillan Children’s Books ISBN 9781529013061 £6.99 Hal is not pleased when his parents arrange for him to accompany his uncle Nat on the final trip of the steam train The Highland Falcon while his baby sister is born. However, he quickly discovers not only that members of the royal family will be fellow travelers but that there is…
Quercus Children’s Books ISBN: 9781786540577 £6.99 Experienced adult crime fiction writer Elly Griffiths has proved herself equally adept in this genre for children. This is the second book about the aptly named Justice, daughter of a barrister, now in her second term at Highbury House Boarding School. Despite her father’s parting admonition that she should…