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Reviews (of both hardback and paperback fiction and non-fiction) are grouped for convenience into both age categories and under teaching range. Within each section, you will find reviews for younger children at the beginning. Books and children being varied and adaptable, we suggest that you look either side of your area. More detailed recommendations for use can often be found within the review.


REVIEWERS IN THIS ISSUE Brian Alderson is a former Children’s Books Editor for The Times and an historian of children’s literature. Gwynneth Bailey is a freelance education and children’s book consultant. Cat Banks is the children’s buyer for Bertrams. Clive Barnes has retired from Southampton City where he was Principal Children’s Librarian, and is now a freelance researcher and writer. David Bennett was Senior Teacher and Head of an English Faculty in Nottinghamshire. He now works as an English consultant and supply teacher. Jill Bennett is the author of Learning to Read with Picture Books. She is currently heading up a nursery unit and also does freelance and consultancy work. Rebecca Butler writes and lectures on children’s literature. Urmi Chana previously worked as a researcher and lecturer on bilingual issues in primary education and as a primary teacher. She now works part-time in Adult Education. Valerie Coghlan is Librarian at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin. Robert Dunbar is a commentator on children’s books and reading. Anne Faundez is a freelance education and children’s book consultant. Janet Fisher is a children’s literature consultant. Geoff Fox has now retired as Co-Editor (UK) of Children’s Literature in Education, but continues to work on the board and as an occasional teller of traditional tales. Dorne Fraser is Young People’s Reading and Learning Librarian for Norfolk Library and Information Service. Jake Hope is a children’s librarian. He currently works for Lancashire co-ordinating their book of the year award. Lois Keith taught English for many years and is now a writer. Margaret Mallett is a researcher and writer on Primary School English and a member of the English 4–11 editorial team. Beverley Naidoo is a writer and educationalist. Ted Percy has now retired to Kirkcudbrightshire after working as a children’s librarian in Lancashire, Ross & Cromarty, and North Buckinghamshire. Felix Pirani is Emeritus Professor of Rational Mechanics in the University of London. Val Randall is Head of English and Literacy Co- ordinator at a Pupil Referral Unit in Blackburn, Lancashire. Andrea Reece worked for children’s publishers for 16 years and is now a freelance marketing consultant. Vincent Reid is a lecturer in developmental psychology at Durham University. Caroline Sanderson is a freelance writer, reviewer and editor. She is the author of Kiss Chase & Conkers, a book about traditional children’s games. Elizabeth Schlenther is Editor, English children’s books for gwales.com, The Welsh Books Council’s website. Rosemary Stones is Editor of Books for Keeps. Ruth Taylor has recently completed an MPhil in Children’s Literature from Cambridge University. Huw Thomas is Headteacher of Emmaus School, Sheffield. Nicholas Tucker is honorary senior lecturer in Cultural and Community Studies at Sussex University. Sue Unstead was a publisher of children’s non-fiction for 25 years and is now a freelance editorial consultant and writer.


Annexed


Ants in Your Pants! Apple Pie ABC


Beads, Boys and Bangles Beautiful Malice


Bedtime Hullabaloo! Bitter Chocolate Bumping Buffalo Burning Mountain


Climate Change Dark Goddess


Day the Rains Fell, The Dead Man’s Cove


E is for Ethiopia


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Page Monsters of Men HHH 20 HHHH 21


April Underhill, Tooth Fairy HHHHH 22 Baby Ruby Bawled


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Children’s Literature and Social Change


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Dewey: The true story of a world famous library cat


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Elephant in the Garden, An HHHHH 26 Ella Moves House Feeding the World Fly, The


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Girl, 16: Five-Star Fiasco Glass Demon, The Goal!


Gracie the Lighthouse Cat


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Great Big Book of Families, The HHH 21 How Ali Ferguson Saved HoudiniHHH 25 I’m Not Scared Kisses for Lula


Lambton Curse, The Lies Losing It Mistress of the Storm


Last Summer of the Death Warriors, The


Me, Myself and I: All about sex and puberty


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Moonstone Legacy, The Page


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My Favourite Animal Families HHH 24 My Name is Mina My Sister is an Alien My Uncle’s Dunkirk Night Iceberg, The Pretty Monsters Reckless


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Reducing the Carbon Footprint HHH 29 Resources


Road Horse


S is for South Africa School Blues


Ship’s Cat Doris Sisters Red


Space Crime Conspiracy Spirit Hunter


Sunflower Sword, The 10pm Question, The Theodore Boone


Thomas the Tank Engine – 65th anniversary edition


Walk in the Wild Woods, A Waste Disposal Wasted Water


Web of Air, A White Cat


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Would You Believe… bed testers get paid to sleep?!


Would You Believe… two cyclists invented the aeroplane?!


Would You Believe… Vatican City is a country?!


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Would You Believe… in Mexico, people picnic at Granny’s grave?!


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