This is a series of story books for primary children from EYFS to Year6, ideal for teaching a generation of children to make a difference through educating children about the devastating global issues and how important it is to inspire them through education to change attitudes to global environmental problems. Duffy’s Lucky Escape by…
Barrington Stoke ISBN 9781781129548 £6.99 When Dylan hits another boy at school, his best friend Asim, it is the final straw for the school and he finds himself expelled. His mother has been finding it increasingly difficult to cope with him and decides to move them back to Wales and her father’s home by the…
Illustrated by Steve Lenton Macmillan Books ISBN 9781529048261 £12.99 When Noah accidentally ended up on his older sister Eve’s geography field trip, it should have just been inconvenient, but that was before the teacher’s Satnav sent them in the wrong direction and they end up on a deserted island off the west coast of…
Abrams Books For Young Readers New York ISBN 9781419749452 £12.99 This book shows us how, for much of human history, horses powered the world. Thermes tracks the first horses and shows how they came to live on all six continents. She traces the relationship between humans and horses over the years and shows us their…
Illustrated by Alex Paterson Wren and Rook ISBN:9781562363152 £6.99 Self-help books abound, but their hectoring or ‘know-it-all’ tone can make many of them unappealing and even off-putting. This one, written by a clinical psychologist, avoids those pitfalls and succeeds in producing a very palatable and portable introduction to cognitive behaviour theory for young people. It…
Illustrated by Stefano Tambellini Barrington Stoke ISBN 9781781129661 £6.99 I am a fan of David Long’s “Survival In Space” which tells the story of the Apollo 13 Space Mission, and this book about The Titanic does not disappoint. Long tells the story of the so-called Ship of Dreams. His explanations are very clear and I…
Illustrated by Nick East Hodder Children’s Books ISBN £6.99 Another in The Toto the Nina Cat series which is based on Dermot’s actual cats. Toto and her brother Silva, live in a town house in London. Toto is nearly blind, and a ninja cat master taught her to trust her senses. Toto and her gang…
Illustrated by Kim Ryung-eon What on Earth Books ISBN 9781913750152 £12.99 This humorous book looks at the way our bodies cope with bacteria and in particular how our digestive system works. The story is narrated by a friendly gut bacterium as it travels through the body, (which it considers to be a 5-star hotel), explaining…
Illustrated by Anneli Bray Barrington Stoke ISBN 9781781129456 £6.99 People have been fascinated by the idea of flying for hundreds of years, but with the development of Balloons at the end of the 18th century it became a possibility for some. At the beginning of the 20th century a young girl called Dolly Shepherd found…