This attractively produced book, the latest in a growing series, has a worthy aim: to encourage young readers to ‘make friends with books’. To this end it explains that literature is to teach us important things, it goes on to summarise the history of writing from early marks on clay through the invention of paper…
Taking tests can be a very stressful thing and particularly when it is maths, and you really don’t like the subject. Arun is really scared and is trying to find a way to miss the test, but nothing seems to be working. He eventually gets some advice from Mr Patel, his neighbour, who says that…
Day and night, the town of Starspill lies cloaked in fog, bound in its grey, shadowy swathes. No one alive can recall a time before the fog, a time before the wolf swallowed the sun and cast the world into shadow. When a black kitten named Jinx arrives in his bedroom and tells Zac that…
Windrose Island is a wild and wonderful place filled with the calls of thousands of seabirds and the ever-changing songs of the sea. Remote though it is, Anna loves her island home which she shares with her stepfather Caleb. Anna does not know it, but everything is about to change, and the ominous arrival of…
This intriguing tale begins in the dark, seldom-trodden depths of a Parisian sewer beneath Rue Morgue. Here, a young sewer sweeper discovers a glittering gold object, a locket engraved with a strange spidery script. It appears to have a life of its own, twitching in his palm, throbbing with a strange energy . . .…
Are we alone in the universe? Is anyone out there? These iconic questions have been asked for generations and now eleven-year-old Roswell Johson from South Carolina finally has a definitive answer: we are not alone. For as long as he can remember, Roswell has been obsessed with space. After a disastrous school science fair presentation…
This book is a riveting adventure from the author who is a master storyteller., She has won a series of children’s book awards since 2019. This is a book for children aged from 7 to 11 years old. It is a story of England, India, and the Empire. The story of a young Indian girl,…
As it states on the back cover this is a book about climate change. I would add that this is one of the most useful books on climate change I have read over the last few years for primary school children. It defines the problems affecting the planet. Following an introduction there are four distinct…
As it says on the back cover “Embark on a breath taking journey to conquer the world’s most iconic peaks.” This book not only pays tribute to some of the world’s greatest mountains but it also provides information about the history and the risks faced by climbers, the legendary stories of the conquests of the…