This week's Bookshelf Best is a smashing read: 'Check Mates' by Steward Foster.  Felix has ADHD. He always seems to be getting into...

This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Dark Flood by Karon Alderman. Don’t you just love it when a random choice in the library turns out to be a...

This week's Bookshelf Best is one which will stick with the reader a long time after closing the book. I know there have been many people...

This week's Bookshelf Best is ' Blitz One Family’s War' by Martin Impey. This book is simply stunning! The grippingly detailed...

This week's Bookshelf Best is 'The Middler' by Kirsty Applebaum. Maggie is a Middler. Living in Fennis Wick, protected by a boundary of...

This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Dragon Skin' by Karen Foxlee. Pip can’t quite believe her eyes when she finds a baby dragon at the...

This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Nell and the Cave Bear: The Journey Home' by Martin Brown. This is the sequel to the adorable Stone Age...

This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Skandar and the Skeleton Curse' by A.F. Steadman. The fourth book in the Skandar series reunites the...

This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Can You See Me?' by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott. Inspired by young coauthor Libby Scott's own...

This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Turtle Moon' by Hannah Gold. Having read all of Hannah Gold’s other books, I was delighted to find ‘Turtle...

This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Storm Child' by Ele Fountain. Maya Penrose loves her life: her surfing, her friends and their endless...

This week's Bookshelf Best is 'The Wild Robot Protects' by Peter Brown. Safely back home with Brightbill on their beloved island, our...

Welcome to our NEWLY UPDATED six-week fully resourced English planning based on Christina Balit’s ‘Escape From Pompeii’.  Watch your...

This week's bookshelf best is 'The Voyage of the Sparrowhawk' by Natasha Farrant. Ben and Lottie - who are both desperate to escape the...

The very next day after finishing ‘The Wild Robot’ I went out and found the sequel, ‘The Wild Robot Escapes’. The second book in the...

When Ettie’s world gets turned upside down, she does everything she can to survive in Victorian London. Follow Ettie, and her brother...

Discover the 'Bookshelf Best' with 'The Shark Caller' by Zillah Bethell. Join Blue Wing on a thrilling adventure of revenge and friendship.

This week’s Bookshelf Best is The Wild Robot by Peter Brown.   I didn’t think it was possible to be completely taken by a lump of metal...

It’s no wonder this stunningly illustrated book has just won the Klaus Flugge Prize. 'The Fossil Hunter' is easily our bookshelf best...

Times are tough for Cari and her mum. A violent storm has flooded the valley where they live, destroying their home and café...