Oxford University Press ISBN 9780192744975 £5.99 I was, I will admit, a little unsure at first about a unicorn trying to be part of a performing arts school in New York. However, this is a very straight forward story that actually will really engage younger readers in Year 3 and some Year 4 readers who…
Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0192743992 £6.99 I was never a fan of rats. They conjure up the idea of fear in the hearts of many. For most people, they wouldn’t be the first choice for a children’s tale. However, Tom Moorhouse has crafted a story with a rat at the centre. Indeed the author has…
Orion ISBN 9781444013887 £6.99 This is a very exciting and really quite busy and complicated story set in Storey Street (great for fans of Demolition Dad) and the moral is really very heart-warming: Sometimes, Mouse thought with a smile, you don’t need a cape to make you super… Mouse’s home is loving but chaotic and…
Orchard Books ISBN 9781408337776 £6.99 This is part of a series of ‘Badly Drawn Beth’ books which follow the adventures of heroine Beth as she copes with the everyday delights and disasters of childhood! The Show Must Go On depicts Beth’s trials and tribulations as she faces the impending embarrassment of a singing Dad, a…
Otter-Barry books ISBN 9781910959473 £12.99 What a joy to discover the republication of this glorious book in a beautiful cloth-bound hardback edition. Talented author and water-colourist, Jackie Morris, has relocated the Selkie myth about the seal wife from its more usual Scottish location to her Pembrokeshire coastal home. Instead of the Selkie’s skin being hidden…
Wayland Books ISBN 9780750295833 £12.99 What an interesting and attractive book. From the simple yet effective way of differentiating Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age to the interesting selection of prehistoric monuments, this is an appealing and very readable look at one aspect of the Stone Age. The main focus is, as you would…
Orchard Books ISBN 9781408337370 £6.99 Did you ever think you could feel sorry for a rat? Well, Lauren Child will tug at your heartstrings with her story of That Pesky Rat. He lives in a dustbin but all he longs for is to be loved as someone’s pet. He envies his friends and their seemingly…
Conkers (Barrington Stoke) ISBN 9781781125526 £5.99 One of Barrington-Stokes’ Conkers list of titles, this raucous tale from Jeremy Strong had me engaged from page one. The story is not complex: an ostrich appears in the grounds of Pudding Lane Primary School and causes mayhem; it becomes the school mascot; it is kidnapped…and rescued; it causes…
Oxford University Press ISBN 9780192739384 £6.99 Set back in the days when housemaids ran the show, Nancy Parker’s Diary of Detection is certainly not lacking in humour. Alternate chapters depict the thoughts of two delightful, yet contrasting, characters, with whom a young audience can relate. Nancy; a 16-year-old; newly appointed; and rather clumsy housemaid presents…