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This disarmingly sweet-natured story describes the ecological adventures of modern eleven-year-old British girl Silver when she and her parents spend four super-memorable months on an animal sanctuary in Costa Rica. Her father paints but her depressed mother, a vet, cannot get over the disappointment of being unable to conceive a second child and spends most […]
This author has often excelled in domestic stories that approach fantasy while still just remaining rooted in everyday reality. Rosa by Starlight crosses this border, with its gentle, neglected eleven-year-old heroine able to bring all the inhabitants of over-crowded Venice to a total stop as she rescues herself from a murder attempt. This is from […]
Your reviewer enjoyed reading and reviewing the first Swifts book so much, that efforts were made to obtain this, the sequel, for more entertainment. This time Beth Lincoln has fun with French words as well as English words, as sisters Shenanigan Swift (no longer so chaotic) and budding scientist Phenomena, accompanied by piratical Uncle Maelstrom, […]
Created by wildlife expert Nicola Davies and with a foreword by Dr Helen Scales the Marine Biologist, this is a compact and very beautiful book which will introduce a sense of wonder and insight into these most amazing creatures. The author describes Blue Heart as an extended love letter or ‘celebration in pictures and poems’ […]
This attractively produced paperback brings together a selection of poems by Valerie Bloom, one of the best known and established poets writing for children today. She is winner of the CLiPPA Children’s Poetry Prize for Stars with Flaming Tails. Here is a fresh selection of her poems drawn from earlier collections reminding us of her […]
Katya Balen is known for her beautiful nature writing, for making the natural world come alive and in Ghostlines she doesn’t disappoint. The main human character in this middle grade novel is Tilda, a bold and feisty adventurer who loves her home on the island of Ayrie and the story is one of friendship, self-discovery […]
Once again, this esteemed and popular author and illustrator pairing has produced an endearing animal story that will instantly appeal, delighting their many fans. Its inspiration is the astonishing true stories of the drovers, who would take farmer’s sheep and cattle to market in the big cities, often hundreds of miles away, always accompanied by […]
After her mother is brutally murdered in their farmhouse, Sera is forced to flee for her life to the magnificent city of Fantome, taking only her dog, Pippin with her. The city is ruled by Shade – a dark magic used in different forms: the Cloaks use it to hide in the shadows under magical […]
Mariana lives by herself in a hut by the sea, a sea that provides her with fish for food and wood for fuel. Close by live the village children with whom she would love to make friends but they mock her and run away. One day a fierce storm blows up causing the sea wolves […]
Over a year a small girl visits her grandmother and together they share memories of things they have done together, the things they have collected – playing in the river and making a paper boat, splashing in the sea and finding a special shell, running through leaves in autumn – and that one leaf that […]
In this environmental-themed thriller for children, the young Surat takes on a global corporation in a dystopian Edinburgh where everything – even the air people breathe – is controlled by Zephyr industries. ‘The Reek’ is a dangerous chemical smog: a deadly poison gas cloud suffocating the planet. Its name evokes an early nickname of Edinburgh, […]
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