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Book review: ‘Los Gatos guerreros: La mirada secreta’

In Spanish, from 12yo.

For many moons, ThunderClan, ShadowClan, RiverClan, and WindClan have lived in peace in their territories around the lake. In order to decipher a mysterious prophecy which will send one young medicine cat apprentice on a quest to determine the fate of all the warrior Clans. 

Great adventure book to motivate older children in reading in their minority language.

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Book review: ‘Harry Potter’ in Spanish

In Spanish, from 8yo.

Follow the adventures of Harry Potter, Hermione and Ron and their friends in Spanish. They will have to fight the forces of darkness to save the world. Voldemort is coming back and the Harry must go to Hogwarts to be ready to fight.

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Book review: ‘La aldea de los monstruos’

In Spanish, from 8yo.

Can you imagine a village where a monster lives in each house? This would be really scary. Well that’s where Toto arrives after getting lost in the forest. The sinister gravedigger, will guide and protect him in a world populated by fearsome creatures of the night, such as witches, ogres or werewolves. Will Toto find the way back to his home?

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Book review: ‘El club de lectura del conejito’

In Spanish, from 4yo.

Conejito, ‘bunny’, loves reading. He cannot help himself, he has to stop and listen to the librarian reading books outside the library. He is so happy!

However, summer ends along with the outdoor story times. How can he listen to the stories if he is not allowed inside?

That night, he has an idea. He decides to go to the library and find a way to get in. He manages to get inside through the return chute. This is even better than he had imagined. There are books everywhere on everything. He borrows a few and gets back to his burrow.

He reads all night long. Then his friends one by one come and find him. They wanted to know what he was doing. Bunny took them to the library at night and all together they will spend hours reading until one night, the librarian finds them all.

She explained the rules of the library and gave them all their very own library card. Bunny and his friends were so happy and Bunny creates the Bunny Book Club where all booklovers are welcome.

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Book review: ‘Om’

In Spanish, from 4yo.

Om is a young boy and he is wild. He can turn into an animal. How can he do this? His superpower is yoga.

Beautiful book to introduce yoga to children with the different animal poses. Narrated in an interactive story so children can listen and try the poses as the book goes along.

The illustrations as beautiful and colourful.

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Book review: ‘Juez Dredd, origenes’

In Spanish, from 12yo.

This explains how it all started. Judge Dredd receives a parcel at the courthouse that will send him on a mission to the Curse Land. Find out how he became adept of instant justice in his futuristic world.

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Book review: ‘Splat el gato’

In Spanish, from 2yo.

Splat is a young cat and he is about to start school. He is frightened and finds all sorts of reasons to stay home. Finally, he has to go and decides to take his pet mouse along. Once in the cat’s school, he learns that cats chase mice.

Can you guess what will happen when he releases, Seymour, his pet mouse? How will the day end? WIll Spat want to go back to school?

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Book review: ‘The luckiest girl in the world’

Bilingual Tagalog-English, from 8yo.

Carmina is desperate. She really wants to go to Marjorie’s birthday this Saturday but she does not know what to get to her friend who already has everything.

Great book to teach about values and money, the difference between wants and needs.

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Book review: ‘Sampung makakaibigan’

Bilingual Tagalog-English, from 4yo.

Karlo goes to daycare and he does not behave well with his little friends. He steals their lunch, says mean things, tries to wake a friend up during naptime, he knocks a block tower down, etc…

One day, he goes to school and cannot find anyone. Where is everybody? He finally finds his friends happily playing together in the backyard.

He tries to join in but no-one wants to play with Karlo. Karlo is very sad and he finally understands that he has been mean with his friends and tries to make up and be nice from now onwards.

This book is great to introduce daycare to children and how they are expected to behave while in a group.

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Book review: ‘Polliwog’s wiggle’

Bilingual Tagalog-English, from 8yo.

This book is about the life cycle of the frog. One day a funny looking fish is born near a school of minnows in the mangroves. The minnows accept this new friend and call him Polliwog as he keeps wiggling. However one day, it becomes harder to breathe under the water, and his legs are growing and his tail is shortening. What is happening? Will he still be able to be friend with the minnows after the weird things that are happening with his body?

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