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Crow: Thief of Magic
Fiona Dixon
Harper Collins Children’s Books

Twelve year old Crow is a thief who barely makes a living working for the Reavers of the underworld, robbing the wealthy ruling class who live in the city. However, one day a seemingly mundane delivery takes him to a mysteriously quiet building wherein resides...


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Alice with a WHY Return to Wonderland
Anna James, illustrated by Matthew Land
Harper Collins Children’s Books

It’s March 1919 and many years have passed since Alice’s adventures in Wonderland, of which this book is a kind of reimagining. The story follows Alyce, her granddaughter who, while sitting beside a pond, is hit in ...


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How Many Babies?
Yummy Yummy
Forest Xiao
Walker Books

Those who have read Seven Babies will immediately recognise the Forest Xiao’s adorable infant depictions. However How Many Babies? goes three better and introduces, one per spread, ten tinies in playful mood (occasion...


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You Be You
Chitra Soundar and Sophie Bass
Walker Books

Sadly there are all too many people who are not willing to accept others who are different from themselves; equally sadly or perhaps even more so, is that a fair amount of the language used in speeches (and the press) intended to influence others in the current climate,...


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The Unchosen One
Amy Sparkes
Walker Books

This is the first instalment of a new series set in the Isles of Peryll way back in time. At the start of this story twelve year old orphan, Tassalonia Monk, Tassie for short drops from a tree into the cart of a stranger who introduces herself as The Wisest of the Wise. The stranger...


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