Middle Grade readers are in for a treat with this hilarious fantasy adventure – The House At The Edge of Magic by Amy Sparkes. And while we all know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, Ben Mantle has done a wonderful job of illustrating the extraordinary house which is just bursting at the…
Come and sink your imaginations into Nirana Farook’s latest adventure, The Boy Who Met a Whale… Wow! What an opening chapter – a storm, a shipwreck, two escaping villans and a boy with a thirst for adventure. When Zheng washes up on the island of Serendib (a fictional island in Sri Lanka), Razi and his…
Yes! 4B are back! From the fabulous duo Joanna Nadin and Rikin Parekh the next instalment in The Worst Class in the World series is here. Surely 4B can’t get any worse… or entertaining?! Well, urm, yep! The latest antics of Stanley, his fabulous friends and the long suffering Mr Nidgett are sure to entertain…
The atmospheric The Creature Keeper has to be one of my favourite novels from 2020. Just the right blend of spookiness, mystery and adventure beautifully told by Damaris Young. Cora lives with her Ma and Pa on a farm at the edge of Hazelglen Town. Cora is treated as an outsider by the other children…
The Midnight Guardians hooked me in from the very beginning and kept me up way past my bedtime as I raced to the finish line, desperate to find out how Ross Montgomery’s pacy middle-grade adventure was going to pan out. Set during the Blitz, grief-stricken Col is evacuated to the home of an unsympathetic aunt…
A longer than normal picture book, this fabulous creation from Maggie O’Farrell & Daniela Jagalenka Terrazzini is a magical tale. Where Snow Angels Go tells the story of Sylvie who, lying in bed one night, hears some very strange sounds. “Have you ever woken suddenly, in the middle of the night, without knowing why?” A…
This story feels like a passion project by writer Steve Cole, it is full of heart, soul and some genuinely moving moments. About a boy called Carlos – who lives in the Amazon – the story follows him as he is kidnapped by a gang of illegal gold miners. He’s taken to the middle of…
Sophie Anderson weaves a wonderful story of self-belief, magic and adventure in The Castle of Tangled Magic. Olia and her family lives with her family in the old and crumbling Castle Mila. It’s not as elaborate as it once was, but it means a lot to both Olia and her family. During a terrible storm,…
Hmmm, what if we HAVE got the story of Father Christmas completely and utterly wrong. What if… Mrs Claus had a LOT more to do with it. Because, we don’t really hear much about her story do we? Until now… Meet Blanche Claus, an orphan living on the streets. It’s winter, it’s cold and an…
I found myself staring into space after finishing the final chapter of David Almond’s Brand New Boy; marvelling at how this master storyteller manages to lead us into the dark depths of his middle grade novel, where its existential themes are lurking, while still making us feel like we are being floated along on the…
Jessica Townsend’s Hollowpox was at the very top of my highly anticipated reads of 2020, and I confess to doing a little happy dance when it arrived at my local indie two days ahead of its official publication date. Like its tricksy lanes, you never know where you are going to end up when you…
Sadly, Daisy’s father died in World War One but her family were never able to have a funeral because his body was never found, like so many lost soldiers at the time. But then Daisy hears about the government’s plan to repatriate one unknown soldier from the battlefields and bring him back to England for…
Katharine Orton’s second novel Glassheart will first chill you then charm you with the story of Nona; a child whose life has been shattered by the bombs of World War II. With just a fragment of magical glass in the shape of a half-heart to remind her of the home she once shared with her…
This book is not for the faint hearted! There’s Slobber, dribble and gore galore, hairy moments and scary moments, a greedy, gruesome, vomiting beast, stinky exotic birds and so much more! ‘The Beast and the Bethany’ is an absolutely brilliant, gloriously dark, romp of a read! Geniusly addictive and packed with the kind of macabre…
The next book in the Anisha, Accidental Detective series has landed, and it’s fabulous! Anisha is the energetic, loveable star of the series, and in this one she again finds herself in the middle of a tricky situation. The practice run for the Science demo went wrong… and when I say wrong, I mean disastrously…
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Great review, thanks for posting the pictures. Really makes a difference with picture book reviews. Will order for the store…
His books are a great way help kids read while soaking up important Science concepts without even knowing it. Ironically,…
Ooh, this sounds fantastic!