Wayland ISBN 9781526311139 £13.99 An excellent title in the “And Other Big Questions” series. Mental health is an important area and this book explains what mental health is. Dr Lucy Maddox is a consultant clinical psychologist and writer and her experience with young people makes her the ideal author for this book. The approach is…
Firefly Press ISBN 9781912102029 £6.99 Author Catherine O’Flynn, winner of the Costa First Novel Award for “What was Lost”, has bought us her first children’s book with “Lori and Max”. An entertaining, witty novel which introduces us to school girls Lori – a budding detective, and Max – a troubled newcomer with a complicated but…
Orchard Books ISBN 9781408355480 £6.99 Alice MacAlister is a ‘pre transformation’ werewolf who has been nominated for The Bravest Monster award despite only recently receiving her welcome pack from the Ministry of Monsters. When celebrity monster vlogger Kiki grabs hold of her hands at a press conference Alice experiences a strange draining sensation. Soon after…
Wayland ISBN 9781526311627 £12.99 This is one in the series of books ‘ A Question of Science’ and is an excellent addition. Fun illustration enhance each double spread are educational. The text is clear and very good specific illustrations are integrated well to make the book an inspirational learning volume for primary aged children. Older…
Macmillan Children’s Books ISBN: 978-1529003994 £6.99 Fans of the first book, The Umbrella Mouse, which won the 2019 Sainsbury’s Book Prize for Fiction and was chosen as a Waterstone’s Book of the Month, will not be disappointed with the sequel. This story picks up where the last book stopped. It is set during the final months…
Franklin Watts ISBN 9781445156170 £8.99 Life in Britain was transformed by the coming of the Romans in 43 BCE. This book tells us what happened from the point of view of those who lived it. The author uses a range of sources from archaeology, written records and other events to help the reader understand what…
Oxford University Press ISBN 9780192775092 £6.99 This is a story that will stretch the imagination of the reader. There are probably, in reality, a number of places in the world that are undiscovered even now, and Joe Wilson uses this theme for his novel. This story about a secret island that can only be located…
Frances Lincoln Children’s Books ISBN: 9780711241534 £12.99 This appealing book is part of a series I had not come across before. Mary Hoffman is more familiar to me as the author of the wonderful “Amazing Grace”, but how well she is suited to non-fiction! This is child-friendly information at its best, providing an introduction to how our…
Lion Fiction ISBN 9780745977874 £6.99 This is a 19th century science fantasy, murder-mystery set in an enchanting museum, inspired by the Natural History Museum, with some aspects of Hogwarts, and Sherlock’s mind palace. It tells the story of Ree, a girl who works as a stonemason disguised as a boy. Accompanied by Phil, a rather stubborn dodo,…