Issue 22 - Summer 2016
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EDUCATION<br />
Book reviews<br />
Exploring great reading ideas...<br />
Bookseller Deborah Holland from Waterstones<br />
in High Street, Lincoln, recommends nine titles<br />
to get stuck into this summer…<br />
The Detective Dog<br />
by Julia Donaldson<br />
and Sara Ogilvie<br />
Pan Macmillan<br />
(9781509801596)<br />
Nell is a dog with a great<br />
sense of smell. She is Peter’s<br />
dog and can detect anything!<br />
From the whereabouts of lost<br />
clothing or who dispatched<br />
a poo on the gravel. Every<br />
Monday she goes to school<br />
with Peter to listen to the<br />
children reading books. She<br />
loves it until one Monday she<br />
arrives to find the teacher and<br />
children in despair. ALL the<br />
books have gone missing! Will<br />
Detective Nell save the day<br />
and find the culprit? This has<br />
already become a favourite<br />
almost immediately with<br />
me. Not only because of the<br />
subject matter or the rhyming<br />
story but because these two<br />
are a dream team.<br />
Can’t wait to see more from<br />
them.<br />
The Uncommoners –<br />
The Crooked Sixpence<br />
by Jennifer Bell<br />
Random House Children’s Publishers UK<br />
(9780552572507)<br />
This magical debut is one to watch. The<br />
story starts with Ivy and her brother,<br />
Seb, accompanying their Grandma in an<br />
ambulance. Little did they know that this<br />
was the beginning of events that would lead<br />
them to discover another world. A world where ordinary objects<br />
have fantastical powers. A world called Lundinor. A world that<br />
might hold the mystery of Grandma’s forgotten past. This fast<br />
paced adventure is perfect for fans of Harry Potter and I can’t<br />
wait for the next instalment in this trilogy. My eldest daughter was<br />
quiet all day reading it (and under the covers that evening) so a<br />
winner in this household!<br />
Voyage to Magical North<br />
– The Accidental Pirates by<br />
Claire Fayers<br />
Pan Macmillan (9781447290605)<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> isn’t complete without a<br />
pirate adventure. How about one with<br />
magic thrown in? Brine Seaborne was<br />
abandoned by her parents and left<br />
in service to a grumpy magician. An<br />
accident with the magicians’ shard of<br />
rare starshell forces Brine to flee with the magicians’ apprentice,<br />
Peter, to the sea. Getting captured by pirates is when things get<br />
really interesting. This book really has everything – magic, pirates,<br />
monsters, dragons and acts of heroism aplenty. A page turner for<br />
ages 8 years+. Looking forward to the sequel...<br />
The Bumblebear by Nadia Shireen<br />
Random House Children’s Publishers UK (9781780080154)<br />
Imagine loving honey so much you disguise yourself as a bee so<br />
you could steal it? Norman the bear does just that. He becomes a<br />
giant bee. He even gets accepted at Bee school. However one of<br />
the bees becomes suspicious and he is found out! Will his friends<br />
he forgive him or will he have to buzz of? Brilliant pictures, a<br />
great story and incredibly cute.<br />
16<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2016</strong>
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