Dash Fan Book Reviews

The Royal Leap Frog  by Peter Bentley I would like to thank Kaleidoscopic Tours  and Bloomsbury Publishing for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information A hilarious tale of rivalry, boasting and custardy chaos from the bestselling creators of The King's Birthday Suit.   When a flea, a grasshopper and a frog compete to show the  King who can jump the highest, it causes CHAOS in the royal  dining hall. Who can jump the highest? Can the clever leap frog use his wits to win? And will the Emperor's dog EVER  get rid of the flea?  This funny and irresistible retelling of Hans Christian  Andersen's classic fable, 'The Leap Frog', will make children  laugh - AND show them that brains are sometimes better  than brawn! With a pitch-perfect rhyming text by bestselling  Peter Bently, and gloriously detailed illustrations by award winning Claire Powell, this is an unmissable treat. 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼...

Olive's Birthday  by Elizabeth Milbourn I would like to thank Clink Street Publishing and Kaleidoscopic Tours for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Publisher: Clink Street Publishing Release Date: 1 st March 2022 Age range: Picture Book Olive is very excited about her birthday! What presents will she get? What sort of party will she have? What will her birthday cake be like? Help Olive Choose.  In this first book of the Choosy Olive series, the reader gets to decide how Olive's birthday unfolds. See if you can dodge the odd outcomes.  Help children feel empowered and learn about the consequences of choice from an early age in a fun and silly way with Olive as she embarks on her day to day childhood journey.  🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷  Excerpt 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Author Bio Elizabeth’s book, Olive’s Birthday , has been a work in progress for over 5 years. Life got in the way a bit...

Stop That Dinosaur  by Alex English and Ben Cort I would like to thank Kaleidoscopic Tours for inviting me on this wonderful  Blog Tour. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information    Title: Stop That Dinosaur Author: Alex English Genre: Picture Book Publication Date: 4 th March 2021 Page Count: 32 Publisher: Bloomsbury I was in my Granny's kitchen eating extra-special cake, when the walls began to tremble and the roof began to SHAKE. KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!  Ring! Ring! Ring!  Oh MY - a dino's at the door. And now it's taken Granny . SOMEONE STOP THAT DINOSAUR! Chase down the GRAN-NAPPING brontosaurus in this rollicking, rhyming, ROAR-some romp. Can you catch the naughty dinosaur and get back to Granny's house before Mum comes home at six o'clock? From Alex English and Ben Cort, the bestselling illustrator of  Alien Loves Underpants , comes an irresistibly rib-tickling book that kids will want to read again and again . and AGAIN! ...

A Clock of Stars by Francesca Gibbons I would like to thank Kaleidoscopic Tours for inviting me on this fabulous Blog Tour  🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼 Book Information Title: A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth Author: Francesca Gibbons Illustrated by: Chris Riddell Genre: MG Fantasy Publication Date: 1 st October 2020 Page Count: 496 Publisher: Harper Collins Childrens With all the magic of Narnia and the humour of Mary Poppins, this is a future middle grade fantasy classic – and the beginning of an unforgettable journey… Imogen should be nice to her little sister Marie. She should be nice to her mum’s boyfriend too. And she certainly shouldn’t follow a strange silver moth through a door in a tree. But then… who does what they’re told? Followed by Marie, Imogen finds herself falling into a magical kingdom where the two sisters are swept up in a thrilling race against time – helped by the spoiled prince of the kingdom, a dancing bear, a very grum...

Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble  by Paul Cookson I would like to thank Kaleidoscopic Tours for inviting me on this fabulous  Blog Tour  🧙🏻‍♀️🔥🔮🧙🏻‍♀️🔥🔮🧙🏻‍♀️🔥🔮🧙🏻‍♀️🔥🔮🧙🏻‍♀️🔥🔮 Information about the Book Title: Fire Burn, Cauldron Burn Editor: Paul Cookson Illustrated by: Eilidh Muldoon Genre: MG Poetry Publication Date: 17 th September 2020 Page Count: 160 Publisher: Bloomsbury   Summary: Can you hear the distant dragon's rumble of thunder? And smell the sweet swampy aroma of the ogre? Can you taste the tangy tarantula tarts? And see the girl who's really a wizard? From magic carpets and wands to unicorns, potions, creams and lotions, Paul Cookson's brewing a spell of fantastically magic poems.  On this tattered magic carpet   You can choose your destination   For nothings quite as magical   As your imagination  Beautifully illustrated, this enchanting anthology brings together work from a range of classic, established and ...