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Recommended reads for October 2020
Younger readers Esio Trot, Roald Dahl My youngest daughter came home from school one day and told me a secret. She had worked out that...
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Nov 5, 20201 min read


Recommended Reads for September 2020
Evie and the Animals, Matt Haig Matt Haig writes with such empathy. This is reflected beautifully in his stories for children. In this...
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Oct 2, 20201 min read


Recommended Reads for August 2020
Mister Cleghorn's Seal, Judith Kerr A charming, beautifully illustrated slim chapter book by the author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea. ...
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Sep 1, 20201 min read


Small but mighty
Just finished reading this little book of lively heart-warming short stories by Atinuke, which will now be passed on to my six year old....
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Aug 23, 20201 min read


Summertime reading, The Great Godden
I spent a glorious hot Summer week in Suffolk and managed to read The Great Godden, the latest young adult novel by Meg Rosoff. This is a...
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Aug 23, 20201 min read


Holy Batman, this is good
Set in the 1970s, Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee is the story of a young girl, Lenny, and her brother, Davey, who is...
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Aug 23, 20201 min read


Recommended reads for July 2020
People, Blexbolex Created by the French silk-screen artist Blexbolex. A collection of images of different people with different roles. ...
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Aug 2, 20201 min read


Ottoline - Fine illustrations and quirky humour
Ottoline and her companion, Mr Munroe, a bog animal from Norway, are an eccentric pair who have an appetite for solving puzzles and...
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Jul 8, 20201 min read


Spectacular science
Unlike novels, non-fiction books don't always need to be read from cover to cover or in any particular order for them to make sense. In...
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Jul 8, 20201 min read


A return to nature
An ode to the natural world and the lost words of nature. This is a bold,beautiful oversized book that you will want to refer to again...
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Jul 8, 20201 min read


Great Lives - snappy bios for young people
I love this short colourful biography of Nelson Mandela. It is part of a wonderful series of non-fiction books, which tell the stories...
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Jul 8, 20201 min read


Lampie - glorious reading
This book made me very happy. It is the debut novel of Annet Schaap, a well loved Dutch illustrator. Published by Pushkin books and...
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Jul 8, 20202 min read
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