Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought of It: Danny Chung is excited when he finds his parents are planning to give his bedroom a makeover...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought of It: I grew up loving the novels of Leon Garfield – with a special fondness for Smith . Catherin...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought Of It: A Kind of Spark is a gem of a novel – one to break your heart, inspire you and fill you wi...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought of It: Chaya may only be twelve years old, but she has already proved herself a talented thief. No...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought of It: Clara is part of a small and close-knit group of friends in a rural, seaside community in Ja...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought of It: She wished she knew a way to stop time: to keep the world just as it was at that moment – t...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought Of It Onjali Rauf’s wonderful The Boy at the Back of the Class has done an incredible job of raisi...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought Of It: Hector is a bully – someone who openly delights in picking on those smaller and weaker than...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought Of It: Like Bilan’s debut novel, Asha and the Spirit Bird , Tamarind and the Star of Ishta is set ...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought Of It: “Bone is impossible. It is the only material that could make such a thing. There are locks t...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought of It: Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award 2019, and now longlisted for the 2020 Jhala...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought: A couple of years ago, through reading David Olusogo’s wonderful history,  Black and Britis...

Shortlisted for The Jhalak Prize The Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, is an annual literary prize awarded to Bri...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought: My next review from the Jhalak Prize 2018 longlist is another children’s book, this time fo...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought: It’s lovely to start the Jhalak Prize longlist for 2018 with this picture book by John Agar...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought: I read Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s enchanting The Girl of Ink and Stars when it was shortl...

Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought: Ink and stars - the two most fundamental tools of the cartographer. Isa is the daughter of...

Reviewer : JW Hicks What we thought : From the first glimpse of this super-bright, gloriously illustrated storybook you’ll be hooked. Wh...

Reviewer : Catriona Troth What we thought : Callum is on his way to Cornwall to stay with the grandfather he barely knows. He doesn’t kno...

Reviewers : Emily, Alia and Caitlin What We Thought :  Emily : I found this book absolutely tremendous! The types of sentences and words...