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Book of the week
Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls (5-8 Infant/Junior)
Various Authors
Fairy tale princesses don’t all sit around in towers waiting to be rescued by princes as this lively collection demonstrates.
Latest Reviews
The Mist Monster (Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant)
Kirsti Beautyman
(Alison Green Books)
Gently constructed around themes of loss and change, this optimistic story weaves links between imaginative worlds and the here-and-now of daily reality.
Rise Up! The Art of Protest (10-14 Middle/Secondary)
Jo Rippon
(Palazzo Editions)
This book provides a marvellous illustrated history of protest, using the banners and posters created by different people over the decades to make their feelings and demands known.
The Velvet Fox (8-10 Junior/Middle)
Catherine Fisher
(Firefly Press)
There is humour as well as excitement in this excellent story of a brave and resourceful heroine who surprises even her mentor, the Crow, and we can look forward to finding out what happens next.
The Little Island (5-8 Infant/Junior)
Smriti Prasadam-Halls
(Andersen Press)
Drawing inspiration from Orwell’s Animal Farm, this modern fable is attractively presented for a much younger audience. The text by Smriti Prasadam-Halls flows easily with a nice sprinkling of humorous asides adding character and life.
Nic Stone
(Simon & Schuster Children's UK)
YA readers may well be familiar with novels set in New York City or on the West Coast, often featuring affluent homes. This is different.