Kids Book Buzz: Spring Season Reviews

I don’t know about you, but our house is full of book worms and avid book readers. We love books and they provide our children with the perfect end of the day ‘wind down’ routine, the chance to develop their imaginations, the opportunity to grow their sense and understanding of the world and of course the inspiration to many, many games and ideas!

Kids Book Buzz is a new seasonal kids books review series that aims to showcase some of our best finds. It may include good old favourites but will certainly also showcase some of the latest books hot off the press.

Baby – Toddler: 1-3 years

My Favourite Kitten

ISBN 9781529002812

Publisher: Campbell Books, Pan Macmillan Books

These delightfully sturdy board books provide the perfect introduction to each animal in the series. We love the leading questions that help parental interaction and the large lift the flap pieces are perfect for little hands to enjoy. They are simply illustrated with lovely endearing characters and each page also provides an array of everyday items that are familiar to babies which will assist building their vocab and you point out and name each one. These books are suitable to read to younger babies and will provide much delight to toddlers too as they become more familiar with the text and can begin to answer the questions that are posed.

Options in the series: monkey, owl, puppy and kitten.

Baby Touch: Colours

ISBN 9780241379103

Publisher: Ladybird

Filled with sensory fun and bright bold colours and shapes these interactive books are great for the little people to enjoy. Add some rainbow coloured fun to bedtime with this book that focuses on the different colours in the most delightful way.

Pre-schooler: 4-6 years

Brilliant Body

ISBN 9781529002799

Publisher: Campbell Books, Pan MacMillan Books

This book comes packed with fun facts and interactive turn and learn and fold out pieces. Our preschooler could not get enough of this delightful book. The center has a large fold out skeleton and this proved an excellent talking piece about our bodies and how we care for them! Filled with facts and fun illustrations this book gently introduces the basics of caring for one’s bodies to kids in an easy to understand format which allows children to dip into this book over and over always coming away with a new discovery.

Options in this series: Giant Dinosaurs, Amazing Animals, Super Space

Angry Owl Finds a Hobby

Author: Kerry Ponter

ISBN: 9781432309152

Publisher: Penguin

This funny story introduces children to the concepts of emotions, hobbies and perseverance through the lovable character, angry owl! The illustrations are humorous and delightful in this fun picture book. The perfect combination for a great bedtime storybook which brings up a few great topics to chat through with your young listener.

 

Younger Child: 7-9 years

The Shelter Puppy

Author: Holly Webb

ISBN 9781847159236

Publisher: Little Tiger Press Group

This delightful heat warming story of a puppy in a shelter provides the perfect chance for emerging readers to get into reading book on their own. Written for furry friends fans, we know these stories will delight any young reader’s heart with their values and emphasis on the beauty and warmness of relationships.

Bear Grylls Adventures, The Sailing Challenge

Author: Bear Grylls

ISBN  978-1-78696-081-8

Publisher: Bear Grylls

The latest in this series from a real-life modern day adventurer Bear Grylls, provides children with a series of daring adventure stories. The challenge follows Bear and a child called Mila on an outdoor adventure camp. Here they meet a real inspiring outdoor adventurer and together they participate in a daring adventure together. We love how this story encourages adventure, the outdoors and equips children with skis along the way!

Older Child: 10-12 years

Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid

Author: Jeff Kinney

ISBN 9780241405604

Publisher: Amulet Books

Following on from the ever-popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, comes this fun version told from Rowley’s perspective. Full of fun and the iconic stick figure characters, this is a must read for any Jeff Kinney fan!

 

Julius Zebra, Entangled with the Egyptians

Author: Gary Northfield

ISBN 9781406378900

Publisher: Walker Books

This has to be one of the funniest history novels around. Julius is ship-wrecked on the shores of Egypt and he strikes it lucky as he is mistaken for a horse-god! Enjoy as this humorous story unfolds and the Egyptians begin to realize he is not all that they thought he was.

 

 

We hope you have enjoyed this first edition of our Kids Book Buzz Series.

Catch our next installment in our Kids Book Buzz – Festive Reads coming soon!

Emma Reid

Emma is a mom of three. She is an educationalist and holds a Bachelor Degree in English, Media & Writing and Film. She is also a qualified Primary School Teacher. She has a keen interest in curriculum and content development especially for child related fields. With many years of teaching children, and advising parents, she is passionate about childhood development and education - of kids and parents. Her hobbies include photography, reading, travel and spending time in the outdoors with her family and relaxing either in or near the surf!

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