Rowleys Reading Corner

01/11/2022

22/10/2022

🤔 Have you started thinking of Christmas yet?

🎄These are the perfect stocking fillers...

Usborne Minis are pocket-sized activity books, ideal for keeping kids entertained on long journeys, rainy days or even at restaurants.

Choose from transfers, stickers, puzzles or finger-printing.

16/10/2022

📚The Supreme Lie 📚

Twice Carnegie medal winning Geraldine McCaughrean's enthralling new novel is set in a world paralysed by natural disaster and dangerous lies.

Fifteen-year-old Gloria is maid to Afalia's tyrannical Head of State, Madame Suprema. When the country is hit by unprecedented flooding, Madame Suprema runs away, fearing she will be blamed for the crisis. To cover up this cowardly act, Gloria is made to step into Madame Suprema's shoes and is thrust into a world of corrupt and desperate politicians. As Gloria becomes aware of the forces toying with her every move, she must take decisions that could save, or end, thousands of lives - including her own...

A brilliant and darkly funny commentary on our present times by one of our greatest writers.

Great for age 8+

15/10/2022

📚Can we really HELP the Polar Bears?📚

The Arctic ice is melting and the polar bears need our help. They come to Warmland to explain what's really going wrong. Luckily they find a group of lively, sparky kids who jump into action and draw up a BRILLIANT PLAN.

14/10/2022

📚 Alex Neptune 📚

Time to meet your newest favourite hero!

Get swept away on a wave of adventure with one of our newest 9+ fiction titles!

For as long as Alex Neptune can remember, the ocean has been trying to kill him. So he's not too happy when a bunch of sea creatures drag him to the abandoned aquarium on the hill, where an imprisoned water dragon needs his help. But how can he say no to a magical myth?

Recruiting his tech-genius best friend Zoey, legend-lover Anil, a sharp-shooting octopus, four acrobatic otters and a thieving seagull, Alex plots a heist to break the dragon out. And suddenly discovers the power of the ocean at his fingertips...

13/10/2022

🐟 Magic painting Coral Reef 🐠

Packed with fascinating scenes showing fish seahorses and turtles swimming through the beautiful corals!

The perfect 10 minute boredom buster for any budding artist.

12/10/2022

📚 21% Monster 📚

Fun, fast-paced, high-octane action adventure, 21% Monster is a perfect page-turning new series for fans of Alex Rider, Percy Jackson and the MCU generation.

When Darren Devlin is arrested for destroying his school with his bare hands, it's not just the police who are after him. Enter Marek Masters, 14 years old, 19% alien, and the most intelligent, most wanted "almost human" alive. Marek is here to tell Darren the truth - he is 21% monster, and together they must take down the secret organisation that created them.

Darren and Marek are wanted, powerful and dangerous. And now it's payback time.

10/10/2022

📚 Usborne Beginners-Castles 📚

Who lived in a castle, and what was it like? This book lays out the answers and explores the history of castles, knights and battles using photographs, clear step-by-step illustrations and simple, straightforward text.

10/10/2022

Did you know you can also make your own castle with our gorgeous cut-out models?

📚Make this Medieval Castle

There are over ninety pieces to cut out and assemble to make this superb model of a 14th century castle. Surrounded by a moat with a drawbridge which goes up and down, the scene is crammed with accurate historical detail. The carefully designed model provides hours of model-making fun and there are around forty groups of figures and props to bring the finished castle to life, including knights and ladies and servants going about their everyday tasks.

The base of the finished model measures 460 x 590mm (18 x 23in) and the castle is approximately 220mm (8in) high. Printed on stiff card, this book contains templates to cut out and construct a superb model of a 14th century castle crammed with authentic detail.

The model includes miniature characters for re-creating castle life, including market stalls and jousting knights as well as a portcullis that lifts and falls. The base of the model measures 59 x 46cm.

Just imagine your child's happy, smiling face once they've completed it. Definitely one I'd pop in the to buy list 😍

10/10/2022

We also have two amazing Sticker Books!

Who doesn't love a sticker book though...

As well as aiding literacy skills, they'll also help with hand eye co-ordination and fine motor skills too!

📚Castle Sticker Book-A day Out At A Castle
Find out about life inside and outside a historic castle, from the point of view of modern visitors. Watch re-enactors jousting, visitors trying on knights' helmets, and guides demonstrating a medieval bath tub.

📚Knights and Catles Sticker Book
A fantastic sticker book full of brave knights and magnificent castles and over 400 colourful stickers to complete the medieval scenes. Scenes include knights charging into battle, competing in a joust, getting dressed and fighting a fire-breathing dragon.

10/10/2022

Let's have a look at what we have for castles...it could be a upcoming school project or you may be planning a visit to one soon.

📚See Inside Catles
📚Peep Inside the Castle
📚Look in a Castle

Each one is an amazing resource for a dip in dip out read. I'll add their links to the comments so you can find our more...

10/10/2022

Magic painting is perfect for the whole family - from young children to grandparents!

Brush water over the black and white images and watch the colours appear 🎨