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Book Reviews: New Kids Chapter Books for ages 5+ and 6+

Nicci Rosengarten

5 days ago
6 min

Book Reviews: New Kids Chapter Books for ages 5+ and 6+

Sea-rescue mice, a secret club for rescuing unicorns, a mermaid ocean parade, friendship giggles, a new girl starts at school + green slime!

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KS1 Book Club: Bear and Bird: The Picnic and other stories by Jarvis (Walker Books)

Nicci Rosengarten

Mar 9
5 min

KS1 Book Clubs

KS1 Book Club: Bear and Bird: The Picnic and other stories by Jarvis (Walker Books)

The children LOVED this today!! Can’t wait to read more ‘Bear and Bird’ friendship feel-good stories. I feel like I’ve found treasure!!

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Book Review: The Rescue of Ravenwood by Natasha Farrant (Faber & Faber)

Nicci Rosengarten

Mar 1
6 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: The Rescue of Ravenwood by Natasha Farrant (Faber & Faber)

Families are complex and friendships hard to work out, so can saving Ravenwood bring everyone together and restore peace and happiness?

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KS1 Book Club: Isadora Moon Meets the Tooth Fairy by Harriet Muncaster (Oxford University Press)

Nicci Rosengarten

Feb 24
4 min

KS1 Book Clubs

KS1 Book Club: Isadora Moon Meets the Tooth Fairy by Harriet Muncaster (Oxford University Press)

In honour of Isadora Moon Day, the children selected one of Isadora's many wonderful adventures. Every day is Isadora Moon Day!!

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Book Reviews: New Kids Chapter Books for ages 7+ and 8+

Nicci Rosengarten

Feb 21
3 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Reviews: New Kids Chapter Books for ages 7+ and 8+

My top picks selected from both new and recently published kids chapter books (for ages 7+ and 8+).

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Book Review: Wilder by Penny Chrimes (Hachette)

Nicci Rosengarten

Feb 16
6 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: Wilder by Penny Chrimes (Hachette)

Who can solve the mysteries of the village's missing children and the deadly new sickness? A powerful story of nature and folklore.

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KS1 Book Club: My Heart is a Poem by Various (Little Tiger)

Nicci Rosengarten

Feb 9
5 min

KS1 Book Clubs

KS1 Book Club: My Heart is a Poem by Various (Little Tiger)

A beautiful anthology of poems about feelings: sadness, anger, fear, joy, love, and more. The follow-up collection to 'Courage in a Poem'.

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Nicci Rosengarten

Feb 6
4 min

4-7 yr olds

Book Reviews: New Kids Picture Books

My top picks selected from both new and recently published kids books (for ages 4+)

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KS1 Book Club: Finding Floss, The Colour-Changing Cockapoo by Cara Matheson (Owlet Press)

Nicci Rosengarten

Feb 4
5 min

KS1 Book Clubs

KS1 Book Club: Finding Floss, The Colour-Changing Cockapoo by Cara Matheson (Owlet Press)

Not only is 'Finding Floss' pure eye-candy fun for any child's bookshelf it also teaches about what to do if a child finds they are lost.

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Blog Tour: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell (Usborne Books)

Nicci Rosengarten

Feb 3
4 min

8-10 yr olds

Blog Tour: The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell (Usborne Books)

A spiritual story filled with secrets of the heart, and an ingenious musical mystery to solve. This book is ‘deadly’!! I loved it!!

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Nicci Rosengarten

Jan 28
4 min

Opinion

Book List: Best Kids Books of 2022

Here it is! My absolute top favourite kids books (for ages 4-11) published last year. How many of these have you read and enjoyed too?

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KS1 Book Club: The Kindest Red by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S. K. Ali (Andersen Press)

Nicci Rosengarten

Jan 27
7 min

KS1 Book Clubs

KS1 Book Club: The Kindest Red by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S. K. Ali (Andersen Press)

Deciding she’d like to live in a “kind world”, Faizah with her friends use their amazing kindness superpowers during a fun school photo day.

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Book Review: Fritz and Kurt by Jeremy Dronfield (Puffin)

Nicci Rosengarten

Jan 23
9 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: Fritz and Kurt by Jeremy Dronfield (Puffin)

A must-read true story of the Holocaust. Fritz and his father must do all that they can to survive the camps to stay together until the end.

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KS1 Book Club: I Love Chinese New Year by Eva Wong Nava (Scholastic)

Nicci Rosengarten

Jan 21
5 min

KS1 Book Clubs

KS1 Book Club: I Love Chinese New Year by Eva Wong Nava (Scholastic)

Children will enjoy finding out all about the traditions, and find familiarity in the joy of family gatherings and the love of a grandparent

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Book Review: All Four Quarters of the Moon by Shirley Marr (Usborne Books)

Nicci Rosengarten

Jan 18
5 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: All Four Quarters of the Moon by Shirley Marr (Usborne Books)

The Guo family migrate from Singapore to Australia. A new beginnings story about learning to be loud with life, love and laughter.

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KS1 Book Club: Frank and Bert by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros (Nosy Crow)

Nicci Rosengarten

Jan 13
4 min

KS1 Book Clubs

KS1 Book Club: Frank and Bert by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros (Nosy Crow)

First KS1 book club of 2023 and I couldn't think of a more joyful new book to share to the children. Yay! Frank and Bert are back!

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Book Review: Once Upon a Hillside by Angela McAllister (Zephyr)

Nicci Rosengarten

Jan 3
2 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: Once Upon a Hillside by Angela McAllister (Zephyr)

The text, accompanied by beautiful illustrations, flows like honey into each new character’s world and journeys through time.

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KS1 Book Club: Eight Nights, Eight Lights by Natalie Barnes (Little Tiger)

Nicci Rosengarten

Dec 14, 2022
3 min

KS1 Book Clubs

KS1 Book Club: Eight Nights, Eight Lights by Natalie Barnes (Little Tiger)

It's the last KS1 book club of the term. The kids loved this awesome new story about Chanukah + we played dreidel with chocolate coins too!!

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Book Review: Future Hero: Mission to the Shadow Sea by Remi Blackwood (Scholastic)

Nicci Rosengarten

Dec 12, 2022
2 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: Future Hero: Mission to the Shadow Sea by Remi Blackwood (Scholastic)

Jarell is needed back in Ulfrika for an underwater adventure with fellow warrior Kimisi. It's a race against time to find the Iron Crocodile

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Book Review: The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair by Hannah Foley (Zephyr Books)

Nicci Rosengarten

Dec 9, 2022
2 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair by Hannah Foley (Zephyr Books)

A powerful, sensitively and beautifully written mystery story involving mental illness in both Victorian and modern times

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