Levi Pinfold

Finding Bear, sequel to The Last Bear, drives a powerful message to young readers as climate change takes hold in the Arctic. April Wood returns to help her friend, Bear the polar bear, who is struggling to navigate this changing world.

Everything about The Song from Somewhere Else is excellent. It is the oddest, most surprising and most extraordinary book. A book whose list of ingredients insists that it will never work, but which nonetheless turns out to be a masterpiece. It is a furious, fast-paced whirl of a story that is never for one moment what it seems.

What do you see when you look in the mirror? This story’s narrator Emmaline sees herself, a small girl without a family during wartime Britain. She sees her surroundings in Briar Hill, a stately home that’s been turned into a tuberculosis sanatorium for children like her. But more importantly she sees something that no-one else can see: huge winged horses, who trot around in the mirror-world and normally cause no disturbance (other than occasionally nosing through the doctors’ cups of tea).