Another of the plethora of books arriving last week, this one has some serious 'clout' behind it, being the follow-up novel from...

Amongst the flood of new releases and publications last week was this hardback gem of a pciture book, telling the story of Victor, a...

Publishing 24th September 2020, Pushkin Press This is a beautifully descriptive and emotional story, telling the tale of Freja and her...

This is a lovely book with messages of kindness, sharing, compassion, hope and possibility. Following a girl called Clara as she moves...

Oh, I do love a book about the Amazon...Katherine Rundell's 'The Explorer' being one of my favourite class texts to use in Y6 each year!...

This is one of THOSE books. The ones that affect you by being more than just 'a good read' - the ones that have that personal appeal or...

This is a sad but ultimately hopeful story based on true events around the life of 'Sudan', the last male Northern White Rhino. Told in...

This is a lovely book about a girl called Mae living with asthma, who makes frequent, frightening visits to hospital as a result of her...

I heard Kirsty reading an extract from this on Pie Corbett's online radio show during lockdown, and was hassled into buying it there and...

As part of my my summer challenge, this was a step away from my normal fodder of children's books and spy thrillers, to the genre of...

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1vAxRrpbnQRxl?t=11 This is a link to the video of a Sunday morning online booktalk I took part in in July, with a...

A sicario with a bloody past seeks the quiet life on the run from his past and the drug cartels by taking a remote job as a ranger in a...

With what I think is one of the best sets of opening lines I read to a class (‘Like a man-made magic wish, the..’), this is one of my...

A great adventure in the classic tradition of Blyton and the Famous Five. I didn’t notice any mention of ‘lashings of ginger beer’, but...

Perfect for year 6, this tale of a group of year 6 pupils on a residential-gone-wrong is action-packed and just the right amount of scary...

A very poignant novel for our times, this is the story of a boy left behind with his mum in a tower-block when all around him escape to...

Books, and the importance of keeping up to date and changing what we use/what we do with it. Lockdown provided me with a great...

On returning to school in September, it may be that some children have not had extended time with their peers in groups for nearly 6...

(First published as a blog by @MenTeachPrimary on twitter, July 2020) Does that make sense? Let me explain… I saw a quote on Twitter...

Horror books and primary schools...not a great mix in my previous experience...a viewing-gone-wrong of The Literacy Shed's 'Alma' having...