8-10 yr olds

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

Nicci Rosengarten

Mar 9
5 min

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Book Review: Midwinter Burning by Tanya Landman (Walker Books)

Nicci Rosengarten

Dec 7, 2022
3 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: Midwinter Burning by Tanya Landman (Walker Books)

Exciting time-shift story of two boys lives colliding between World War II and the Stone Age in Devon, South West England in September 1939

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Book Review: Einstein the Penguin: The Case of the Fishy Detective by Iona Rangeley (HarperCollins)

Nicci Rosengarten

Nov 15, 2022
4 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: Einstein the Penguin: The Case of the Fishy Detective by Iona Rangeley (HarperCollins)

Einstein returns to London at last, but he kidnapped again! Will Imogen and Arthur be able to work together to follow the clues to find him?

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Book Review: Tyger by SF Said (David Fickling Books)

Nicci Rosengarten

Nov 9, 2022
7 min

10+ yr olds

Book Review: Tyger by SF Said (David Fickling Books)

The importance of SF Said’s ‘Tyger’ cannot be underestimated; it is a conductor of faith, and hope for unity and peace in our world to come.

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Blog Tour: Anisha, Accidental Detective: Fright Night (Usborne)

Nicci Rosengarten

Oct 28, 2022
3 min

8-10 yr olds

Blog Tour: Anisha, Accidental Detective: Fright Night (Usborne)

[Ad – Review Copy] Halloween discos aren't really Anisha's fave, but solving unexplained ghostly events with her friends at school is!

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Book Review: The Vanishing of Aveline Jones by Phil Hickes (Usborne Books)

Nicci Rosengarten

Oct 27, 2022
4 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: The Vanishing of Aveline Jones by Phil Hickes (Usborne Books)

[Ad-review copy] Step into the Wintery world of Aveline Jones as she solves the mystery of her missing Uncle and evil long barrow faeries!

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Book Review: Witchstorm by Tim Tilley (Usborne Books)

Nicci Rosengarten

Oct 26, 2022
4 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: Witchstorm by Tim Tilley (Usborne Books)

[Ad-review copy] With a vital message - to preserve our beautiful countryside - this a magical adventure of good vs evil and true friendship

61 views

Q&A: Zaro Weil, author of 'When Poems Fall From The Sky' (Welbeck)

Nicci Rosengarten

Oct 24, 2022
11 min

Q&As

Q&A: Zaro Weil, author of 'When Poems Fall From The Sky' (Welbeck)

[Ad – Review Copy] If Mother Earth were a poet then these are the raps, haikus, plays, she'd write to encourage kids to love + protect her.

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Book Review: Fairy Tales Gone Bad: Creeping Beauty by Joseph Coelho (Walker Books)

Nicci Rosengarten

Oct 24, 2022
4 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: Fairy Tales Gone Bad: Creeping Beauty by Joseph Coelho (Walker Books)

[Ad-review copy] The creepiest librarian with the spookiest stories is back! Fractured fairy tales at their very best.

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Book Review: Everest: Reaching the Roof of the World by David Long (Barrington Stoke)

Nicci Rosengarten

Oct 21, 2022
3 min

8-10 yr olds

Book Review: Everest: Reaching the Roof of the World by David Long (Barrington Stoke)

[Ad-review copy] I was amazed at the grit, determination and endurance of the Everest climbers over the last 100 years! A super read.

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