A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll (Knights Of) I've been a bit behind on this one as it has been around since June last year. In fact, ...

Murder on the Safari Star (Adventures on Trains #3) by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman, Illustrations by Ellie Paganelli (Pan Macmillan) The ...

'Front Desk' by Kelly Yang has already done its thing in the US, and now the excellent folk at Knights Of have brought it to the UK....

Ever since reading Lisa Thompson's first book 'The Goldfish Boy' I've been a fan of her ability to draw humour, mystery and...

I have a habit of reading several books at the same time. Each of the books that I'm reading simultaneously are of a different genre so ...

I keep wondering whether I should stop reviewing children's books at all - it is time-consuming and sometimes the desire to wax lyrical ...

Turns out that before lockdown (v1), and during much of it, I was pretty disciplined in my reading and reviewing of books. Many of the title...

I feel like this year I've read far fewer of the newly released middle grade books - I think I've read more grown-up books this year...

As a pair of down-on-their-luck siblings, Jem and Tom, stumble through a tear into the hidden grounds of an eerie manor house, the reader is...

I've previously reviewed two other books from Scholastic's Voices series ( here and here ) and, after reading the first, I did not...

'The Infinite' by Patience Agbabi felt like a very unique read. What made it unique , I asked myself as a I read it - it was clea...

Writing children's picture books that are loved by both adults and children can't be easy. But there is one avenue, open only to t...