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

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...

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...

After playing with traditional tales and creating my own twisted versions, including Little Red, Rapunzel and Hansel & Gretel, I deci...

Empathy is a vital human force. One that creates happier children, stronger communities and a better world. It’s come into sharp focus dur...

The fact that I read this review copy just over a year of it being published is testatment to the fact that I loved Bren MacDibble's l...

I love a historical novel set in World War Two so when I saw that Bali Rai had written another ( read my review of his excellent Now Or Ne...

I've read quite a lot of children's non-fiction books about space, and whilst many are excellent, they can usually be put into one...

It's hard to write an enthusiastic review about a story so terrible. Terrible because the horrific events which inspired this telling ...

'Wink' by Rob Harrell tells the story of a pre-teen boy who is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, one which has attacked the g...

I'll admit from the outset of this review that despite being an avid reader of children's books I'd never read a Chronicles of...

This book is so cinematic I ate popcorn as I read it, I kid you not. Every page sees the reader's retinas seared with images so lucid,...

You, or your child, may want to exercise caution when choosing to read this book. Let's take the context first: it's a year 6 ...