by IBBY | Mar 18, 2025 | Book Review, Fiction
Wise Creatures Book Details Wise CreaturesDeirdre Sullivan. London: Hot Key Books, pb, 978 1 4714 1120 5, 2023, £8.99, 374pp.Fiction, 14+ BACK TO REVIEWS Daisy’s been living with her aunt and cousin ever since the accident that took her mum’s life. Now more sisters...
by IBBY | Mar 18, 2025 | Book Review, Fiction
Alebrijes: Flight to a New Haven Book Details Alebrijes: Flight to a New HavenDonna Barba Higuera. London: Piccadilly Press, pb, 978 1 8007 8541 0, 2023, £7.99, 397pp.Fiction, 10+ years BACK TO REVIEWS Unwanted and enslaved, the Cascabeles spend their days harvesting...
by IBBY | Nov 27, 2024 | Book Review, Fiction
Problems with Pythagoras! (Hopeless Heroes) Book Details Problems with Pythagoras (Hopeless Heroes)Stella Tarakson, illus. Nick Roberts. London: Sweet Cherry, pb, 978 1 78226 348 7, 2018, £5.99, 208pp.Fiction, 7-9 years BACK TO REVIEWS The Hopeless Heroes collection...
by IBBY | Nov 27, 2024 | Book Review, Fiction
Twelfth Knight Book Details Twelfth KnightAlexene Farol Follmuth. London: First Ink, pb, 978 1 03501 422 4, 2024, £8.99, 368ppFiction, 12+ years BACK TO REVIEWS Alexene Farol Follmuth is an American author living in Los Angeles. She has written a number of adult...
by IBBY | Oct 12, 2023 | Book Review, Fiction, Illustrated book, Poetry
Our Rights: Stories and Poems About Children’s Rights Book Details Our Rights: Stories and Poems About Children’s RightsEdited by Jake Hope. London: Otter-Barry Books, hb. 978 1 9130 7421 0, 2023, £12.99, 240pp.Illustrated book, fiction, poetry, 7-12 years BACK TO...
by IBBY | Jul 26, 2023 | Book Review, Fiction
Wild Song Book Details Wild SongCandy Gourlay. Oxford: David Fickling Books, hb. 978 1 7884 5207 6, 2023, £12.99, 308pp.Fiction, 12+ years BACK TO REVIEWS There are many possible readings of this challenging novel – as historical fiction, as a love story, as a...
