Getting totally hooked on a book, and then discovering there are more in the series is a moment of pure joy don’t you think? With that in mind I’ve put together a list of my favourite, recent MG series with the aim of introducing you to some new and exciting books. Feel free to add…
My Book Corner has sifted through the plethora of Dad themed books to bring you the very best books for Father’s Day. Father’s Day is on the 16th June 2019 for UK & United States, 1st September 2019 for Australia. We highly recommend these books – we’ve read them, shared them and enjoyed them. Click…
The Best Christmas Books For Children is a carefully curated list of festive books selected by the My Book Corner team. Create a Christmas book advent calendar by wrapping up 24 wonderful Christmas books, gift a special book on Christmas Eve, or tuck one or two into a stocking. Here’s some inspiration for you… …
The Voyage To Magical North is the first book in The Accidental Pirate series from UK author Claire Fayers. If you love novels with a great plot, a quirky sense of humour and great imagination then I urge you to delve in, you’re in for a treat! The novel opens with Brine and Peter. Brine…
Where Bear? is a delightful picture book for little ones, from the superbly talented Sophy Henn, (Pom Pom Gets The Grumps.) It’s all very well owning a cute little bear cub, but one day that bear is going to grow … and grow … until it really is time to find somewhere more suitable to…
While E Lockhart’s book Fly on the Wall explores some controversial and challenging themes, this book is also an easy read with a lot of humour. Gretchen, a student at arts school in New York, gets her wish and becomes a fly on the wall in the boys’ locker room. E Lockhart quickly hooks you…
The Stars at Oktober Bend is an all encompassing novel from talented writer Glenda Millard. Millard’s absorbing narrative alternates between her two main characters, Alice and Manny. Alice is fifteen. A horrific attack left her with a brain injury, she finds solace in the words she can write, the words that she has difficulty saying…
Unboxed is a great page turner of a novel from UK YA writer Non Pratt (Trouble) . Imagine that, aged 13, you and your closest friends got together and created a secret box – full of precious things and secrets. Then imagine five years later you meet up to open the box, but one person…
Cogheart is the thrilling debut from UK author Peter Bunzl. Brimming with action, plus unexpected twists and turns, his novel is a brilliant page-turner which will hook you from that intriguing opening chapter. Lily’s life is in danger. Her father has gone missing, suspected dead, after an attack on his air ship. Lily is immediately…
Cowgirl from GR Gemin is a delightful chapter book – an adventure told in a wonderful conversational style with a hint of Welsh dialect. It’s friendly, refreshing and absorbing. Gemma lives in Wales. Her dad is in prison for fraud, her brother is annoying and her mum struggles to makes ends meet. Then there’s school.…
Be A Friend is the latest picture book from Salina Yoon, and it’s just wonderful. ‘Dennis was an ordinary boy … who expressed himself in EXTRAORDINARY ways.’ With a beautiful opening, we learn that Dennis loves mime. All the time. During show and tell, during break time… Dennis mimes, because that makes him comfortable. But…
When the ice breaks, three polar bear friends drift away from their home into the big blue ocean. They desperately need to find a new home before their ice boat melts. At last they find land! Surely they are saved? No. They are turned away. The polar bears are rejected from three different islands by…
‘We are cheering books today,’ declared Robin Ince before announcing the winners of the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals, along with the inaugural winners of the Amnesty CILIP Honour. Chris Riddell, Sarah Crossan, Robin Tulley and Ross Collins huge congratulations to you. Congratulations to Chris Riddell, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal for The Sleeper and…
A Dot In The Snow is the heart thumping beautiful picture book from Corrinne Averiss and Fiona Woodcock. Miki doesn’t want to stay with his mum and look for fish in the icy waters, it looks hard and Miki isn’t ready. He bounds off in to the snowy landscape, where before long he spots a…
Otto is back! In a follow up to the adorable Otto The Bear, Katie Cleminson has created a snowy adventure for the book loving bear – Otto The Book Bear In The Snow. Otto lives in a book, on a shelf in the library, with his friend Ernest. They pop out of the book at night,…
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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!