Not a full review, but I wanted to highlight this brilliant picture book on the blog today in memory of the phenomenally talented Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, whose brilliance and determination in the face of adversity will hopefully continue to inspire generations of girls and boys to reach for the stars. RIP Katherine. Hidden FiguresAuthor:…
I’ve been waiting for The Monster in the Lake to come out ever since I read Louie Stowell’s first junior fiction story, The Dragon in the Library, and it’s definitely just as good as the first. Both stories are the sorts of reads I would have loved as a kid, where libraries are magical places,…
Regular visitors to the blog will know that fantasy isn’t a genre I naturally gravitate towards; however, I’d heard so many good things about North Child on #bookstagram that I decided to give it a read. Despite her mother’s protestations to the contrary, Rose was born facing North, which according to local lore means that…
I do like to see a well-used book… My 6-year-old is hugely into spy stuff at the moment and this fab Usborne Official Spy’s Handbook, brilliantly illustrated by Colin King, is his bible: it contains all the essential info a good spy needs to know, from dead drops to secret codes, spy rings to decoding…