This book is great for discovery and has the added excitement of a magic lens attached on the front cover for inquisitive minds to peer through and see the inner workings of the machines in the book. What a brilliant idea! It is full of colourful illustrations accompanied by manageable information in small chunks, making…
This book focuses on developing independence, fluency and comprehension, encouraging children to read, absorb factual text and ask simple questions. It encourages children to clarify the meaning of new vocabulary. As a Booklife reader with a geographical theme it is not only for developing reading but also for creating a learning experience. It covers What…
Written in the style of ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ this book is sure to be a big hit. If children have liked that, and 13 Storey Tree House Style books, this a great recommendation. It’s accessible through its written style (comic pictures etc.); it has easy to read short chapters; it’s genuinely funny: think…
Poor Lionel. He’s so big and strange-looking that no-one will be his friend. That is until a little dog appears and entices him to play. The two start to have great times together and Lionel is finally happy. But then he sees a poster with his new friend on it. The dog has been lost…
This is a handy volume to read aloud on the approach to Halloween, or to use as the basis of a larger topic: a collection of poems with magic as their theme. Most are contemporary, but not all: Shakespeare, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Lewis Carroll and Alfred Lord Tennyson sit alongside Benjamin Zephaniah, A.F Harrold and…
Inspired by the stories of Grace Darling and Ida Lewis, both courageous lighthouse keepers’ daughters, award winning author Peter Bunzl tells a magical story of Deryn, who is left to keep the lantern lit on remote Featherstone Island. Deryn’s mother is due to have her baby, but there have been complications so when she and…
This is an Accessible Readers publication published to create support for reading development for children and to allow the same learning and development opportunities for all young readers including those with learning differences such as dyslexia. It is also a useful geography source at KS1/ early KS2, (aged 5-8), with double page spreads about Antarctica.…
We hear more and more about children’s mental health, particularly so in this time of the pandemic. Children are bound to worry and they are not always good at expressing their concerns. The author produced a successful e-book dealing specifically with coronavirus, leading to Everybody Worries which encompasses all areas. It seeks to reassure young…
Stephen Tomecek is a real scientist who has been a geologist and has worked as Assistant Director of the Science Museum of Long Island, New York and as Science Supervisor for the New York Hall of Science. It is therefore not surprising that this book is a fascinating look at the world and how it…