Hodder Children’s books ISBN 9781444952056 £9.99 Toto the ninja crime busting cat is off on a well-earned holiday to a music festival. Far from restful however, she soon finds herself embroiled in a quest to prevent her nemesis Archduke Ferdicat hypnotising the crowd for his own wicked ends. Luckily Toto’s skills and her trusty helpers…
Hodder ISBN 9781444932102 £6.99 This is the second story about the adventurous Mr Penguin, who together with his sidekick Colin, (a spider and kung fu expert), is always solving mysteries and actually getting into trouble. In this book he is sent to retrieve a fabulously expensive jewel that needs to be returned to a museum,…
Frances Lincoln Children’s Books ISBN 9781786035561 £11.99 The sky is full of kites in Fivehills, to where David and his parents have just moved. David does not have one and the things he does have – books and toys – just don’t look quite right in the new house. Deciding to build his own kite,…
Stripes ISBN 9781788951562 £6.99 This year sees the 50th anniversary of man landing on the Moon. There has been a plethora of books about this event, but this one looks particularly at the life of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the lunar surface. It covers the whole of his young life and…
Hachette ISBN: 9781408351727 £6.99 I cannot help but feel that another rewriting of A Christmas Carol is a rather ambitious project both in terms of committing absolute heresy towards what most would see as an undisputed ‘classic’ but also in that it has been done so many times before. It was hence with some reservations…
Tiny Owl ISBN:9781910328378. £12.99 Retellings of traditional tales are becoming increasingly popular. Here Grimm’s Twelve Dancing Princesses has been given a new title, (perhaps not to give the game away), and a modified ending. The tale itself, in the hands of the acclaimed author Jackie Morris, retains all of its magic and appeal. The text is…
Tiny Owl ISBN: 9781910328408 £12.99 This is the third of Tiny Owl’s ‘One Story, Many Voices’ series, which sets out to tell different versions of well-known stories, pairing writers and illustrators from different cultural backgrounds to great effect. Quill Soup is the African version of the perhaps better-known Stone Soup. In this version, Noko the porcupine…
Walker Books Ltd ISBN: 9781406390650 £7.99 This is a very timely book written by Martin Dorey, (Founder of the ‘Global Beach Cleaning Movement’), as plastic has become a very big issue and children need to be fully empowered to make a difference to the 21st Century World. The book is full of two minute missions…
Franklin Watts ISBN: 9781445163659 £13.99 This delightful book for KS1 children has double page spreads on water and is very well illustrated. It could be read to the children by the teacher as an introduction to a topic on water and the water cycle or it could be used by children to research ideas about…