Karen Hart road tests some new titles with a variety of different aged children and discovers how there is magic in their pages.

The Think Ups!
Claire Alexander
Walker Books
Hardback £12.99

It’s a rainy day.  Anna and Kiki are stuck inside, wondering what to play.  Anna suggests snakes and ladders – Kiki thinks that’s boring.  Anna suggests hide and seek but Kiki says she already knows all Anna’s hiding places.  But then Kiki has an idea – ‘We could play the Think-Ups!’ she says.

‘All you have to do,’ Kiki explains, ‘is think up a Think-Up and it will appear!’  And so begins a magnificent day of imagination. The only trouble is, what do you do when your imagination is too good and your Think Ups get a bit excitable, And find the kitchen!

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