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My First Animal Moves is a new children’s book designed to encourage children to put down their screens, get active and have some fun. Children today live more sedentary lives than previous generations and this encourages them to reconnect with nature. Exercise is well known for its mental wellbeing and physical health benefits so let’s […]

Walnut Street: Phantom Rider is the third book in the Botanic Hill Detectives series by Sherrill Joseph. I have reviewed the two previous books: Nutmeg Street: Egyptian Secrets and Eucalyptus Street: Green Curse. The quartet of teenaged detectives are on the hunt for a new case when they are invited to a friend’s ranch that […]

The Pirates Are Coming book blurb: A hilarious re-telling of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, with not one but TWO twists! Tom has a VERY important job; every day he climbs to the top of the hill and watches for pirate ships. But when he rings his bell and shouts “PIRATES!” a few too many […]

Humans are staying inside due to the pandemic and the animals decide to host their own sporting event: the Animalympics! This children’s book is written entirely in rhyme. It is actually quite lengthy which is impressive for poetry in my opinion. The ingenious merger of sports and animals is very entertaining and there is a […]

Twins Alex and Donna Macintyre meet up with old friend Jimmy Devlin whose family have moved into a stately home after winning the lottery. The Priory is reputedly haunted and Jimmy’s family are starting to notice strange things. The staff are acting oddly and an expensive ring has gone missing. Alex and Donna offer to […]