Natalie Platten
Natalie Platten is from Readings Doncaster
Review — 27 Jan 2020
Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker
Enthusiasts of Sara Pennypacker’s Pax will delight in the release of Here in the Real World, another intuitive and sensitive work with a beautifully flawed protagonist at its heart…
Review — 29 Mar 2020
How to Grow a Family Tree by Eliza Henry Jones
As with P is for Pearl, Eliza Henry-Jones’s latest young adult novel How to Grow a Family Tree tells the story of a seventeen-year-old girl and the emotional struggles…
Review — 23 Feb 2020
The Republic of Birds by Jessica Miller
Jessica Miller’s Elizabeth and Zenobia was shortlisted for the Readings Children’s Book Prize and her latest work, The Republic of Birds, is a wonderful magical adventure story certain to…
Review — 21 Oct 2019
Girl. Boy. Sea. by Chris Vick
Girl. Boy. Sea. is a story about a young boy’s perilous journey of survival, cast adrift on the vast Atlantic Ocean with meagre food and water to live on. The…
Review — 23 Sep 2019
All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors by Davina Bell & Jenny Løvlie
This is the picture book of choice this year and it is sheer perfection in every respect! There is so much to love about this book. The rhyming structure reads…
Review — 19 Aug 2019
The Magic Place by Chris Wormell
Chris Wormell’s The Magic Place is a perfectly imagined tale of woe to wonder. It’s a story about the triumph of the human spirit.
We meet Clementine, a little orphan…
Review — 21 Jul 2019
The Brilliant Ideas of Lily Green by Lisa Siberry
Lily Green is a messy, unfussy kind of a girl, bursting with creative exuberance and a vibrant mind. Her mum’s beauty salon is the family’s sole source of income since…
Review — 19 Aug 2019
Monuments by Will Kostakis
Monuments is a new action-adventure series about gods, guardians and the struggle for worldorder. ‘Monument’ is the title given to each of the many gods credited with creating life as…
Review — 21 Jul 2019
I Am Change by Suzy Zail
Suzy Zail’s latest novel, I Am Change, is a fictional work based on research and personal interviews with young Ugandan women from rural communities living in extreme poverty. Forthese…
Review — 26 May 2019
She Wolf by Dan Smith
She Wolf is a fierce and stoic story about a young girl named Ylva who is determined to hunt down, and exact revenge upon, the three-fingered brute who killed her…
