R eviewed by Cecilia Busby Available on Kindle "Christopher Uptake" is a curious book. I have an original copy of it, illust...

Hands up those lucky people who managed to get a ticket for the current Ice Age exhibition at the British Museum!  The popularity of thi...

A young orphan who finds himself lost and alone in an unfamiliar world, yet fated to fulfil a destiny that's his alone, Mati comes f...

As soon as I got hold of this book I wanted to read it.  It looks good, with an appealing cover, soft cream pages and a clear font. Th...

There were once fourteen angels in the hammerbeam roof of Waterslain church.  The carved wooden figures, painted in vermilion, green and...

Reviewed by Jackie Marchant This is a lovely middle grade book, about a girl with a hopeless father.  At first it seems like he’s b...

"In that country the snow falls deep and lies long, lies and freezes until bears can walk on its thick crust of ice.  The ice glitte...

I first read this book when I was thirteen. It's about a lonely little boy, seven-year-old Tolly, who comes to live with his great...

Way back in the mists of time, my parents took me and my brother on holiday to Alderley Edge. There were only two reasons we'd chosen...

Ramzi has a problem.  His dad is sleepwalking.  He comes into Ramzi's bedroom in the middle of the night and searches for a hen in t...

Dragons & Monsters is the third and final part of Reinhart's and Sabuda's Encyclopedia Mythologica series, and I don'...

  The Bother in Burmeon is, in my opinion, an excellent children's book. But it's one that you may not otherwise have come acros...