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Story Time: The Star of the Zoo

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are…

We all love this nursery rhyme about Little Star shining like a diamond in the sky but ….what happens when Little Star loses her balance and falls down to the ground in a zoo? She'll need help to return to the sky so that she can twinkle like a diamond again.

The friendly animals try to help but it's no easy task reaching the sky. What can they do?

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Author of the Month

Long before the world heard of Platform 9 3/4 which led Harry Potter to Hogwarts, there was Eva Ibbotson's magical The Secret of Platform 13 about a secret door beneath King's Cross Station in London leading to a mystical island kingdom. This wonderful story for readers aged 9+ celebrates its 20^th anniversary with a brand new edition. Not only that, along with the recent publication of her manuscript of The Abominables in paperback which she remained unpublished when she died in October 2010, this month there is a brand new book called Mountwood School of Ghosts. This title was planned out with her son Toby Ibbotson before her death, so her fans would remember her masterful storytelling. So now is exactly the right moment for us to read Eva Ibbotson's new books and revisit her old ones as we pay tribute to her memory.

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