The ursine protagonist of the story learns an important life lesson in #BearWorries Natalia Shaloshvili @quartokids.bsky.social #FrancesLincolnChildrens is #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dH2
Bear Worries
Bear WorriesNatalia ShaloshviliFrances Lincoln Children’s Books The bear protagonist in this tale is a worrier and always anticipates the worst when he undertakes something. On this occasion we first meet him with an almost empty packet of cookies in his paw, worrying in case he’s…
A great story for joining in with #TickTockAroundtheClock Ruth Brown @scallywagpress.bsky.social is #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog now wp.me/p11DI5-dFG
Tick-Tock Around the Clock
Tick-Tock Around the ClockRuth BrownScallywag Press The pendulum clock strikes seven bongs rousing Tick-Tock a marmalade moggy, from his slumbers. Having munched and crunched through breakfast, he exits the house through the cat flap, out into the garden with its…
Accidentally left behind on a school trip Liam has an amazing adventure and sees awesome objects from all over the world #LockedintheMuseum Leisa Stewart-Sharpe & Acapulco Studio @templarbooks.bsky.social is #RedReadingHub’s #book of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dGs
Locked in the Museum
Locked in the MuseumLeisa Stewart-Sharpe and Acapulco StudioTemplar Books When Liam is accidentally left behind on a school trip readers, along with the boy, are taken behind the scenes of the Most Marvellous Museum as new rooms and artefacts mysteriously appear. There follows…
With 4 short stories a-piece #TerribleTrueTalesSaxons #TerribleTrueTalesVictorians captivatingly told byTerry Deary with dramatic illustrations Helen Flook @bloomsburyed.bsky.social are reviewed on #RedReadingHub blog today wp.me/p11DI5-dFj
Terrible True Tales: Saxons / Terrible True Tales: Victorians
Both books are published by Bloomsbury Education: thanks to the publisher for sending them for review. Terrible True Tales: SaxonsTerrible True Tales: VictoriansTerry Deary Continuing the Terrible True Tales series, Horrible Histories…
A wonderful fable of renovations & restoration #TheLostRobot Joe Todd-Stanton @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social books provides lots of visual cues in his illustrations so readers can make connections as the story unfolds. It’s #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dFO
The Lost Robot
The Lost RobotJoe Todd-StantonFlying Eye Books Not so much lost as deposited in a rubbish dump has been the fate of the broken robot at the heart of this story. Said robot has no idea from where it came but knows that it doesn’t belong on the dump so it starts walking. On its…
Quietly brilliant, #IAMRaysImaginaryFriend
@brianmosespoet.bsky.social Bethan Welby @scallywagbooty.bsky.social explores coping with change and becoming mentally stronger & the powerful influence of empathy. - it’s #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dFo
I am Ray’s Imaginary Friend
I am Ray’s Imaginary FriendBrian Moses, illustrated by Bethan WelbyScallywag Press Written in verse by poet Brian Moses, this is an intensely moving, sensitive story about coping with change. Its narrator is one of the star pupils from the School for Imaginary Friends…
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Reviewed today on #RedReadingHub blog #Wirtz @matthewoldfield.bsky.social & Tom Oldfield the story of Liverpool star’s journey to fame @bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social wp.me/p11DI5-dFD
Wirtz / We
WirtzMatt and Tom OldfieldDino Books This latest addition to the Ultimate Football Heroes tells the story of current Liverpool star Florian Wirtz and his footballing journey from the school playground to the hallowed turf of Anfield.Liverpool fans and avid young followers of football…
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The importance of re-using and recycling is at the heart of #IgorandtheMendingMice Alexander Mostov @quartokids.bsky.social #IvyKids is #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dEU
Igor and the Mending Mice
Igor and the Mending MiceAlexander MostovIvy Kids In a little town where fashion was everything, people threw clothes away that weren’t perfect and bought new ones. That meant anything torn, faded, stained or no longer fashionable enditfked up on the scrap heap. This…
A simple, dead pan telling Joy Cowley with wonderfully expressive watercolour illustrations David Barrow@geckopress.bsky.social is #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dDN
My Tiger
My TigerJoy Cowley and David BarrowGecko Press We first encounter the young boy narrator’s tiger as the two of them are wandering down the road just outside a cake shop. The window is full of the tiger’s favourite food: cake. They enter and the baker is anxious to know whether the tiger…
Told in a modern chatty style by Mac Barnett #Rumpelstiltskin illustrated by Carson Ellis @scholasticuk.bsky.social is #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dF3
Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskinretold by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Carson EllisScholastic Orchard Books In this retelling of the classic fairy tale, Mac Barnett uses a modern chatty stye. and understated humour. ‘Her father , a poor miller, was a nice enough guy, but he had a big mouth. He told…
A hugely thought-provoking, timely YA story #ControlAlterDelete superbly crafted by K.L.Kettle @littletigeruk.bsky.social is reviewed today on #RedReadingHub blog wp.me/p11DI5-dEC
The Call / Control Alter Delete
The CallPeadar O’GuilinDavid Fickling Books Vanessa Doherty (Nessa) is fourteen and attends Boyle Survival College, an Irish institute the main purpose of which is to teach its attendees how to survive The Call of the Sidhe. Young humans start training to survive…
A pacy, intriguing, twisting, turning story #MurderattheIvyHotel EmilyHourican ill.Paula Escobar @scholasticuk.bsky.social is #RedReadingHub’s #kidlit #fiction book of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dEP
Murder at the Ivy Hotel
Murder at the Ivy HotelEmily Hourican, illustrated by Paula EscobarScholastic Sisters Macy (ten) and Meredith (twelve) love living in Dublin’s Ivy Hotel where their mother is the General Manager and the hotel staff feel like their extended family. The girls’ mother has been…
A marvellous mix of magic, mystery, friendship and danger: #AmarianndtheMetalworkMenace @bbalston.bsky.social @farshorebooks.bsky.social is #RedReadingHub’s #kidlit #fiction book of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dEx
Amari and the Metalwork Menace
Amari and the Metalwork MenaceB.B. AlstonFarshore In this fourth book we find 8th grader, Amari, one of the very best magicians ever, deciding she’s had enough of magic. Unexpectedly she’s found swimming has a calming effect on her and has had an offer to take the…
With a plethora of playful poems and some more serious one #PoetryPizza @Simon Mole ill. @tommclaughlin.bsky.social @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social is #RedReadingHub’s book of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-dEK
Poetry Pizza
Poetry PizzaSimon Mole, illustrated by Tom McLaughlinOtter-Barry Books There’s a plethora of playful poems and some more serious ones to be found in this first collection for older children by Simon Mole. Of the light-hearted offerings, one I particularly like is The Blop. It starts…
