Category: Book Reviews

• Book Review: You Won’t Believe This!

  

  You Won’t Believe This! by Adam Baron, illustrated by Benji Davies Published by Harper Collins Children’s Books Recommended Key Stages: 2 Year Group: 4-6 You Won’t Believe This by Adam Baron is a completely captivating read, one where humour and wit walks hand in hand alongside two intertwining mysteries. Beautifully illustrated by Benji Davies, it’s…

  literacywithmissp

  August 21, 2019

  Book Reviews

  adam baron, boy underwater, english, guided reading, harper collins children’s books, literacy, OURfP, planning, reading, readingforpleasure, teaching resources you won’t believe this, writing, You Won’t Believe This, You Won’t Believe this planning

• The Day War Came

  

  The Day War Came by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Rebecca Cobb Published by Walker Book, £10 (£1  from each copy sold donated to Help Refugees) Recommended Key Stages: 1 or 2 Year Group: 3+ In 2016, our own government refused to allow 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees to enter the UK. Around the same time, Nicola…

  literacywithmissp

  August 9, 2018

  Book Reviews

  books, education, english, ks2, literacy, nicola davies, planning, primary, reading, reading for pleasure, rebecca cobb, refugees, teaching, the day war came, war

• Overheard in a Tower Block

  

  Poems by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Kate Milner Published by Otter-Barry Books, £6.99 Recommended Key Stage: 2 Year Group: 5/6 When I first read Overheard in a Tower Block by Joseph Coelho, I absolutely fell in love with it. I have since read it over and over again and feel it is full of poems that…

  literacywithmissp

  July 28, 2018

  Book Reviews

  Book review, Joseph Coelho, Overheard in a Tower Block, Poems, poetry