August '23 Book Recommendations


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Peppa at the Beach by Peppa Pig, Ladybird


A bright and colourful board book for little readers (and piglets) everywhere!

Peppa and her family are in Australia, staying with Kylie Kangaroo. When the two families visit the beach to learn how to surf, Daddy Pig and George find their own special way of riding the waves!
What the Ladybird heard at the Seaside by Julia Donaldson
A brilliant rhyming adventure from the bestselling picture-book partnership duo Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks.

The clever little ladybird is off on a trip to the seaside, but two bad men, Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len, are up to their wicked ways and are planning to steal the mermaid's hair and sell it to a famous star. Luckily, the crime-busting ladybird has a clever plan to stop the thieves...
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Seaside Fun (Secret Princesses #19) by Rosie Banks

Charlotte and Mia have to grant four watery wishes to save the home of their mermaid friends!

Tanesha has moved to a seaside town where all the other kids love snorkeling and surfing - and Tanesha doesn't know how. She wishes she could join in! Can Mia and Charlotte teach Georgie how to have seaside fun, and grant another wish? Or will Princess Poison turn up to ruin the day...

9-12 
Journey to the River Sea : Eva Ibbotson (author) : 9781529066197 ...
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbottson
A gorgeous 20th anniversary hardback jacketed gift edition of Eva Ibbotson's award-winning, bestselling classic adventure. Fully illustrated in colour by Katie Hickey.

Maia, an orphan, can't wait to reach her distant relatives a thousand miles up the Amazon. She imagines a loving family with whom she will share great adventures. Instead she finds two spiteful cousins who see the jungle as the enemy and refuse to go outdoors. But the wonders of the rainforest more than make up for the hideous twins and their parents.

And when Maia meets a mysterious boy who lives alone on the wild river shores, she begins a spectacular journey to the heart of an extraordinary and beautiful new world.
The Ghost of Grania O'Malley
The Ghost of Grania O'Malley by Michael Morpugo

Everyone knows the Big Hill is full of gold, and now the islanders are intent on cutting the top off it and making themselves rich. Jessie and Jake are determined to save the Big Hill but what can they do? A plan is needed, and fast. Could the ghost of Grania O’Malley, the pirate queen, be the answer? You don’t know what you can do until you try.

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The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Now an Original Series on Prime Video! Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer—they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Returning to his childhood home to attend a funeral, a middle-aged man is drawn back to a place once alive with monsters and magic; to a past where the impossible is all too frighteningly real . . .

A haunting meditation on memory, wonder, friendship, and sacrifice, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which was named “Book of the Year” by the UK National Book Awards, is a groundbreaking triumph of storytelling as delicate as a butterfly’s wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

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