How to Explore It, Pair It, and Love It, from the Creamiest Bries to the Funkiest Blues Tenaya Darlington is a self-confessed connoisseur of cheese and makes absolutely no excuses for this passion in her life. With her latest book Madame Fromage’s Adventures in...
The illustrations on the front cover of Where The River Takes Us are reminiscent of an Enid Blyton novel. Indeed, the characters themselves mention the “Famous Five,” at one place. Set in Wales, this story begins by showing two brothers, who have lost their parents,...
Now, you would have to ask yourself why would it be a dangerous thing to be Trilby Moffat, a rather intelligent little girl who likes school, loves doing crossword puzzles and is simply trying to cope with a life that has suddenly gone a bit, well for want of a better...
From the picture on the front cover, we realise The Zebra’s Great Escape is not a gentle bedtime story. It shows a determined girl riding on a zebra followed by a scruffy dog. AN ADVENTURE! is proclaimed by the bold colouring, silver letters and determined...
The Way to Impossible Island is a novel for competent readers, as both the language and the concepts require a certain level of maturity. For children who love fantasy, this is a great example of an adventure story that encompasses time travel, as well as the brutal...
The Shadow Arts follows on from the mind blowing, robotically savvy Monstrous Devices, from Damien Lowes and continues the madcap adventures of Alex and his grandfather and the world of monstrous robots, picking up where they were left off, half way through a very...
Bumble and Snug and the Angry Pirates along with Mark Bradley, have come up with a brilliant graphic novel that is an adventure, but lots and lots more than that as it addresses the issues of friendship, expectation, anger, distress and fun. It also looks at...
Back with more rollicking fun in space, Mark Powers has discovered another zany case to be solved in Space Detectives. Connor and Ethan have moved on from their last adventure, or rather case, to go and spend the summer with Uncle Nick, to help him out running his...
Roland Harvey has the most unique style of going travelling in Australia and what’s more, we can all go with him. In his latest series Off We Go Around Australia he has gathered together four of his favourite holiday adventures and decided that rather than just go on...
Pirate Stew, like all good stews has been a long time in the making, allowed to sit and gather flavour since its inception in 2009, when Neil Gaiman scribbled a few line of poetry, or perhaps mental musings, down on a scrap of paper, placing the scrap in his wallet...
Sophie Kirtley has written her debut novel for children, The Wild Way Home cleverly intertwining present-day life with the Stone Age to present a challenging, absorbing, adventure. Her style is immediate and in the present tense. The reader feels as if the happenings...
Chris Priestley and the gang from Maudlin Towers are back in their latest lot of mayhem, Attack of the Meteor Monsters, as they try to decided just what has happened, or more importantly what is happening at their school. Now as you Maudlin Towers fans know, life at...
