Judy Moody Saves the World
Megan McDonald and Peter H. Reynolds (Illustrator) Judy Moody did not set out to save the world. She set out to win a contest. A Band-Aid contest. It all started with the Crazy-Strip contest – and the dream that she,…
TTT: The Last Ten Books That Came Into My Possession
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the wonderful, list making gurus, The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they publish a new Top Ten list and invite their fellow book bloggers, vloggers and bookworms to join in.…
Witch Wars Review and Author Interview
Sibeal Pounder and Laura Ellen Anderson (illustrator) When Fran the Fabulous Fairy turns up in Tiga Whicabim’s shed to tell her she’s a witch, Tiga doesn’t believe her. Or at least not until Fran points out that TIGA WHICABIM is…
Buddy Review: The Iron Trial
Holly Black and Cassandra Clare Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds…
Buddy Review: Memoirs Of A Neurotic Zombie
Jeff Norton ‘My name is Adam Meltzer and the last thing I remember was being stung by a bee while swinging at a robot-shaped pinata on my twelfth birthday. I was dead before the candy hit the ground.’ Memoirs of…
Tom’s Sausage Lion
Michael Morpurgo No one believes Tom when he says he has seen a lion strolling through the orchard with a string of sausages dangling from its mouth. No one, that is, except Clare, the cleverest girl in Tom’s class. Why…
#CountDownTo7th August : Interview With Emma Carrol
Big Book Little Book are absolutely delighted to host author Emma Carroll as she counts down to the August 7th release of her second novel The Girl Who Walked On Air . The Girl Who Walks On Air is a…
The Power Of Sloth
Lucy Cooke The Power of Sloth is Lucy Cooke’s celebration of the sloth: the cutest, cuddliest, slowest creature on this planet. In the book she brings together some truly adorable pictures of baby sloths, literally by the bucketful. These delightful,…
Looking At The Stars
Jo Cotterill Amina’s homeland has been ravaged by war for many months, but so far they are safe, together. When a so-called liberating force arrives in the country, the family think their prayers for peace will soon be answered, but…
The Secret Seven
Enid Blyton It’s their very first adventure, and the Secret Seven super-sleuths are already on the trail of some really weird clues. It’s snowing and the Seven are dressed in disguise, following a lead to a spooky old house –…
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