Rat, from Patrice Lawrence is a super readable chapterbook which launches you straight into the life of Al. Al lives with his mum, who is just out of prison. They’ve been moved away from Mum’s “friends” to avoid their influence. This is their chance. A fresh start. Isn’t it? When Mum gets caught shoplifting at…
Come and dive into to this perfectly delectable poetry collection written by Alex Wharton and illustrated by Katy Riddell, Daydreams and Jellybeans. There’s a huge range here – both content wise and stylistically. Capturing the world from a child’s point of view Wharton’s love of language is abundantly clear. From the playful ‘Jellybean’, the thoughtful…
DISCLAIMER! I am Welsh, and therefore I may have been absolutely inclined to love this book before I read it, but I am sure I would have loved it anyway. I was completely swept away by this heartfelt book about evacuees from debut writer Lesley Parr, not because it’s set in Wales, but because Lesley…
Grab a cuppa and enjoy our latest Guest Post, Top Tips for Budding Authors by Andy Shepherd, author of The Boy Who Grew Dragons series. The Boy Who Sang With Dragons, flew out on 7th January 2021. I devoured it! What a warm, heart-felt ending to this endearing series. I love the sense of friendship…
Sally Nicholl’s Young Adult novel, The Silent Stars Go By, will whisk you away from the present day to the end of WWI – a time when Christmas was an old-fashioned affair, and societal expectations could be old-fashioned too, especially for young women. When Margot, a reverend’s daughter, returns to her village for the festive…
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…
Get ready for a high-speed, emotional rollercoaster of a ride when you start reading Louisa Reid’s brilliant YA book, Wrecked. Written in page-turning verse, and with the kind of fast-paced rhythm of its own that you don’t often get from YA books right now, Wrecked is about dysfunctional young couple, Joe Goodenough and Imogen Harris.…
Snow Ghost from Tony Mitton and Diana Mayo is an utterly charming picture book, exquisitely told with the most sumptuous palette. Snow Ghost is searching for a place to settle… “a home to be happy, a place to rest.” None of the places she passes feel quite right, until she comes across two children happily…
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…
Ross Montgomery’s latest book, The Midnight Guardians, is OUT NOW! So, OF COURSE we asked Ross to pop into MyBookCorner to answer our infamous questions. Tell us about you in 25 words or less. I was a kid who wrote stories who became a teacher who wrote books in his spare time who is now…
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