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The Boy from Mars by Simon James
With engaging, nicely-written text and easy flowing illustrations, this is a warm and helpful book.
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The Story of the Dancing Frog by Quentin Blake
Light-hearted and touching at the same time, the story of the frog who becomes a Broadway hit dancing with Fred Astaire springs from the imagination of a tired mum to entertain her son. If we chose, we can realise that this tale of Great Aunt Gertrude who so nearly drowned herself when her captain husband…
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adventure | all the books | change | friendship | heart-opening | novel
The Valley of Lost Secrets by Lesley Parr
Jimmy and his little brother are evacuated to Wales along with some of his school. It’s the phoney war, so he doesn’t see the point and is hurting because of what’s happened at home. To make it worse his brother takes to it all like a duck to water and his best mate betrays him….
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No Longer Alone by Joseph Coelho
I was not surprised to read that Joseph Coelho is a poet, for this book is a poem in prose that touches what it is to reel from and then begin to find a balance after the loss of someone precious. The child narrator, we come to understand, mostly through the sensitive illustrations on which…
