Kate Poels has cruised through Jenny Moore’s second adventure middle grade, Audrey Orr and the Robot Rage; What’s to be done when your family have won a cruise to Norway but your headteacher won’t give you time off school? For Audrey there is only one solution. Commission a robot double to stand in for you in …
Kristin Guay, former youth services librarian has headed into outer space with the first book of Lou Treleaven’s Penpals on Pluto series, Letter to Pluto; What did you like about the book? This book is a series of letters between two penpals– Jon on Earth and Straxi on Pluto. In an attempt to preserve the …
Kristin Guay, former youth services has reviewed Book One in the Class X series; Arlo, Mrs Ogg and the Dinosaur Zoo, by Alice Hemming; There is another side story to this book besides the children going on a dinosaur field trip. Arlo documents in his journal some of the problems that this class has had …
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Kate Poels has taken a trip back to Roman Britain in Jenny Moore’s SPI-tacular, Agent Starling: Operation Baked Beans; Oliver thought his day was going to be pretty normal when it started. But a stranger in a long coat and fake beard has other ideas for him. With top marks in a recent school project about …
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Kristin Guay, reviewer and former Youth Services Librarian, has left a wondrous review for John Condon’s, The Wondrous Dinosaurium; What did you like about the book? Many children love dinosaurs and what child would not want a dinosaur for a pet? In this story, Danny has finally convinced his mom to let him get a new pet. However, …
Karen Argent from The Letterpress Project has reviewed our new batch of Red Readers; As ever, each one is beautifully illustrated with minimal repetitive text, the overall layout of which form interesting little plots to enthuse young readers. All of these titles are from the Red Book band which is the second band designed for ‘guided reading …
Bec, also known as The Ish Mother, has recently reviewed our upcoming narrative non-fiction picture book, Mister T.V. by Julie Fulton with endearing and retrograde illustrations by Patrick Corigan; For those of you who, like me, get their inventors mixed up, John Logie Baird was the inventor of the television – and let’s face it, right …