Gathering together all the book reviews to make things easy for you!
While we’re spending time safe in lockdown, we’ve definitely found ourselves reading more! Here’s a handful of books we’ve finished recently, that we think would be perfect for primary-aged readers.
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By Inky Willis (published by Hachette Children’s Group)
Dear Molly,
I is Notes! Notes is me!
Bestest wishes
From Notes
By Nizrana Farook (Nosy Crow)
‘She wrapped her legs around the top of the pillar, splayed on the ceiling like a gecko, hands gripping the roof gutter for support.
She stretched to the maximum, her arm muscles thrumming with the strain. The servant girl was right underneath…’
Continue reading “The Girl Who Stole an Elephant | Book Review”
By Hilary McKay (Macmillan Children’s Books)
Salt spray had twisted her already curly black hair into tight salty springs. They blew into her eyes and stung. She pushed them aside, hardly noticing, and read deeper and deeper.
Continue reading “The Time of Green Magic | Book Review”
By author Paula Harrison and illustrator Jenny Løvlie (Oxford University Press)
‘Don’t let fear hold you back
You’re braver than you think.’
By Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury Publishing)
The old man leaned down, so close that the bottom of his moustache tickled Coraline’s ear. ‘The mice have a message for you,’ he whispered.
Coraline didn’t know what to say.
‘The message is this. Don’t go through the door.’
Continue reading “Happy Halloween! | Coraline | Book Review”
By Lavie Tidhar, with illustrations by Mark Beech (Scholastic Children’s Books)
“If I’d ever thought about it before, I imagined the candy trade was just a game, a handful of chocolates at a time, but this shocked me – the scale of it was much bigger than I’d expected. It didn’t feel so much like a game, all of a sudden.”
Continue reading “Candy | Book Review”
By Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer (Egmont)
‘…no one can tell you what is or isn’t a family.
Well, they can tell you, but you don’t have to listen and you shouldn’t listen. You need to only listen to your heart.’
Continue reading “To Night Owl from Dogfish | Book Review”
By Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder (Chicken House)
When her parents go missing and aren’t answering their phones, Emily and her trusty hedgehog sidekick have no choice but to go in search of them.
Continue reading “The Midnight Hour | Book Review”
By author Gabrielle Kent, and illustrators Rex Crowle and Luke Newell (Knights Of)
Sometimes you find the best adventures…and sometimes the best adventures find you!
Continue reading “Knights and Bikes | Book Review”