Glenda Millard (Templar) After a traumatic early life and a subsequent few years from foster home to foster home, Skip has had enough. Even school is no refuge, as even they do not seem to understand or embrace his love of art. So Skip decides to leave his old life behind and ends up living on …
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Rhino? What Rhino?
Caryl Hart (text) & Sarah Horne (illustrations)(Hodder Children’s Books) Rhino lives at the zoo and is rather bored and lonely so he decides to squeeze through the bars and sneak out unnoticed. He soon finds shelter in a nearby farm, but straight away, and unbeknown to him, he manages to create absolute chaos. The farm animals, who …
Wolf Won’t Bite
Emily Gravett(Macmillan Children’s Books) The three little pigs seem to have reversed the situation and captured the wolf! They take full advantage of the situation by showing him off in a circus! They make him do all sorts of tricks and seem to enjoy slightly humiliating him too; after all, whatever you do to him, “Wolf …
Quarry
Ally Kennen(Marion Lloyd Books) Scrappy is going nowhere fast. His mother has walked out on the family, his grandfather is losing the plot, his father is grumpy and obsessed with his scrap yard with little time for his family and his sister is frantically saving for a deposit on a flat so she can be out …
Rapunzel Week (5): The Fairytale Hairdresser
Abie Longstaff (text) & Lauren Beard (illustrations)(Random House Children’s Books) Meet Kitty Lacey, hairdresser extraordinaire with an array of famous clients: from Little Red to Thumbelina, and from the Beast to Father Christmas, they all come to visit when their hair needs a trim. But when she is called to a rather threatening-looking tower, she …
Small Blue Thing
S.C. Ransom(Nosy Crow) When seventeen year-old Alex finds an unusual looking bracelet while she tries to rescue a swan caught on wire on the banks of the Thames, she thinks nothing of wearing it. It’s so pretty, and so unusual. But soon strange things start to happen: the apparition of a young man wearing a …
Zoe & Beans: Where is Binky Boo?
Chloe and Mick Inkpen(Macmillan Children’s Books) Zoe loves her doll Molly. Unfortunately so does her dog, Beans. It all started when he “misplaced” his own toy, Binky Boo. Since then, he has been pinching Molly, carrying her all day, refusing to give her back … he even takes her to the park to meet his …