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[[image:lumplump.jpg|center|link=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDc9DQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=lump+lump+and+the+blanket+of+dreams&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz47visd3QAhVT_WMKHQ8CA8UQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=lump%20lump%20and%20the%20blanket%20of%20dreams&f=false]]<hr/>[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr SeussAdam Stower|title=Dr Seuss's ABCMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=No Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who has read is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his work can deny that Dr Seuss had a powerful imaginationfancy next of the two. He was able to pluck from But he's a bad magician's cat, so his brainpan favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not only interesting takes on old ideasinto the regular back garden, but also new creatures into a world of frightening adventure and worlds that had never been seen beforewhiffs. His books are often madder This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than a box of March haresMurray was, to be honest, but even he must 's turned up and he'll have had his limits? The humble ABC book (dare I say the dull ABC book), surely he could not bring his sense of anarchic fun to this staple of the children's education market?do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007487754</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nosy Crow1732898766|title=British MuseumThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: ABCBook One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Learning your ABCs is also seemingly learning When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the same items appearing over and over againForest of Fine Repute. A Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is not only A – it is also Applechasing them. B is BallHe's right behind them, spewing hot, C is Carsour milk from his nostrils. It is almost as if there are only 26 objects in the world and they happen to start with different letters of the alphabet(Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. ) In factFortunately, apart from Xylophone they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and X-Rayvines was lowered for them, there are loads of things that you could choose they escaped. They climbed up to put the Tree Wee homes high up in an ABC bookthe tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, if only you had a vast repository of objects Nester Nook and art that you could choose from …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638165</amazonuk>Granny Cranny.

{{newreview <!-- remove 17/5 -->Frontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Go To Sleep!On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Marion AdamsChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45

|summary=''It Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was midnight better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the wild moorsshoreline. The round white moon peeped over On top of the cloudsice was a polar bear. The barn owl flew As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from tree to tree without making a sound. The cool night breeze rustled through the gorse bushesice.'' Parents - isn't this just Kit was all for making a lovely way to start a bedtime story? It's an oft-forgotten truth about picture books run for it, but Teal knew that they need to engage the parents as well as the childrenbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. How else can they read it aloud successfully? So I loved this opening paragraph of ''Go To Sleep!'' - it not only set He obviously needed to be taken home on the scene beautifully but it also made me want to rush off bus and find given a child to read it good meal and somewhere tosleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993079474</amazonuk> What else would you do?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=FumLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Karl Newson and Lucy FlemingLainey Dee|rating=43.5

|summary=The smallest member of Todd was excited about spending the Crumb familyweekend with his grandmother, Fum, has gone missingnot least because she made the best beetle juice. Where on earth can he be? He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. The rest of She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the Crumbs (a family of giants) search high local community centre and low for little FumTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, enlisting the help of various fairy tale friends along the wayhis only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862431</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart1529504775|title=Little Monster's Day Out with DadThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=Before leaving Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the house it is always important that you check park and watch the traffic onlinered buses drive past. What is Elsie would race the buses along the side of the point park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in leaving now if you are going the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to be stuck in a traffic jam all use the way? coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Little Monster's Father could have done thisGradually, David learned to stand up, but is learning use the hard waybus for support, and walk behind it. ThankfullyMany decades later, this is a world in which even Elsie brought the mundane can be fun bus, now damaged and there are lots of friends rusted, to find; even when you are stuck in back to back traffic on the Monster M25Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405276444</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil Gaiman and Divya Srinivasan1529504767|title=CinnamonThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=First written Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1995, Cinnamon has hitherto existed as a short story on Neil Gaiman1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn's website or t have worried though as part she went to the home of an audiobook collection. NowMr and Mrs Russell, itwho couldn's out as a picture book for us t have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to shareherself.The story follows Cinnamon, a princess in a small hot country, where everything is very old. Cinnamon was born with pearls for eyes. This means that Gradually she is very beautiful but also blindrelaxed and began to enjoy her life. And Cinnamon won She't speak. Her parents, d help Mrs Russell with the rajah baking and rani, offer rich rewards for anyone who can persuade their daughter when it came to talk. People come Christmas Eve Susan and go but nobody is successful. Until, one day, a tiger comes.Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408879239</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kelly and Steph Laberis1916459943|title=Can I Join Your Club?Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=Duck just wants to join Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a clubsqueakily baby. Any club would be fine, He's so tired but he would really like can't - or won't - go to be a part of somethingsleep: instead, so he tries just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the Lion Clubwaves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the Snake Clubsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, and even Club Elephant, but la lay...'' And for a moment it seems like duck wonto have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what't ever fit in anywhere…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848694369</amazonuk>s going to happen next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joyce Dunbar and Claire Fletcher140639131X|title=Tibs the Post Office CatA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Set in Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the 1950Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn's, this is t even get a story about reply. Philippa wasn't a cat called Tibs (who bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a real cat) who was born in a post office, problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and who had lollipop stick were both a job little amateur to keep all start with but the rats and mice under controlbenefits were obvious. Rather than killing and eating all All the animals used the mice, however, Tibs befriends them, crossing and with their help he is able Hedgehog was even trained up to apprehend some thieves, becoming the hero of the day!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277207</amazonuk>provide a safe path overnight.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Britta Teckentrup1776574338|title=Under the Same Sky|rating=4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= In this delightfully different book award winning illustrator Britta Teckentrup combines beautiful pictures with a simple yet lyrical text to portray a celebration of global unity. It beautifully depicts how the worldLeilong's communities are united by the same hopes and dreams. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575866</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewToo Long!|author=Ant Parker|title=Charlie Chick Wants to PlayJulia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=3.54

|summary=You would be amazed how often items Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go missing in childrendownstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's booksperfect, especially in lift the flap books. isn't it? What better could be a more fun way is there of going to get a kid to look under something than say it may contain the missing objectschool? In this case There is a Chick has lost their ball problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and rather – because he's longer than question why a baby chicken would have a ball in the first place, we instead must go on an adventure around tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the farmbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509829008</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Burgerman1776574028|title=SPLAT!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary=Everybody loves I love a clown…. Wait a minute, does anyone good board book! ''likeBumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a clown? They are as likely to make a niche market: it's for the child cry as they are who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make them laughsomething quite different from each one. One thing that they do We have going for them is the slapstick humour elephant who dons a tutu - and although we may not enjoy clowns themselves, we do enjoy watching someone get smacked in the face becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a custard piehair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm. ......'' ThereforeOK, why let's not enjoy the mayhem without the harlequin?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192749544</amazonuk>go there Some people are eating!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton1838226834|title= Lots – The Diversity of Life on Earth|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= How many different kinds of living things are there on Earth? Lots…that's how many. Children will learn lots and lots from this wonderful book. I learned lots from it too. There are 100,000 different kinds of mushrooms. Who knew? Well I certainly didn't. This is one of those special books with cross-over appeal. Tiny children will adore the illustrations, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts and readers of any age will be moved by Carried Away With the message that we need to take better care of our beautiful environment. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCarnival|author=Michael Bond|title= Paddington's Finest Hour|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Paddington is back! This is the first set of new stories about our favourite bear from Peru since 2012. There are seven of them and, as you'd expect, they are delightful. Our little bear doesn't change and he still careers around 32 Windsor Gardens creating merry havoc as his adopted family, the Browns, look on in helpless mirth. Everybody loves a bit of slapstick, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008226199</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catherine Rayner|title=One Happy TigerEd Boxall|rating=4.5

|summary=I love a It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good counting book! I particularly like one that has a story attached to itparents do, rather than just 'one ball, two oranges, three dollsso the trips out were always so much fun...' I like a counting book which is well drawn too and where care and thought has gone into A young boy was going to the production of the bookcarnival with his Grandad, who told him: you can 't start to appreciate the good things in life too soon and 'It'One Happy Tiger'' ticks all those boxesll be brilliant, just remember, but when we first meet him tiger is rather sad. Hedon's sitting all alone and whilst he might not have a frown on his face or tears in his eyes he has a look t let go of dejection about himmy hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869234X</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rod CampbellB09MYXSRV4|title=Fluffy ChickOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Books enable us to travel places that we can only dream of; we can walk on When the moonworld was made, or sink to the deepest depths of the oceananimals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. However, Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not all books have to be spectacular to be great; simple pleasures can also be goodburn. Taking a child to a petting zoo is one of Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the most fun outings a family can do, but what happens when you are having an indoor day? Pick up present ''Fluffy Chickand'' and bring the simple joy of future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the petting zoo ability to youuse it well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509834354</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Vivian French and Nigel Baines|title= The Covers of My Book Are Too Far Apart (and He liked to trick other grumbles)|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing |summary=''I'm too old for bedtime stories'', ''Thatanimals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a girl's book!'', '' I hate this book fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I've got to finish it'', ''I can't find a book that I like.'' You've probably heard at least one of the grumbles in this book before but have ll tell you known how to respond to it? This brilliant picture book will do it for you and is a joyful celebration of all that's wonderful came about books and reading. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Morag HoodRob Keeley|title=When Grandad was a PenguinCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4

|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When a little girl goes to stay with her Grandadfriends at school turn up their noses, she Lily is worried keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that all is not wellcarrots grow on trees. Grandad doesn't seem quite Infuriated, Lily checks with the same, somehowteacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and he is talking about fish a lotvegetables, none of his clothes fitlike carrots, and he is spending a lot more time grow in the bathroomground. ThankfullyJordan says, one day the zoo phones up"I did try to tell her, having discovered a bit of a problem there that might explain what is going on with GrandadMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509814019</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lane SmithB09FFJF8YS|title=A Perfect DayYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik

|summary=It's a lovely sunny day'For the big, and looks as if it may just turn grownup girls out to be a perfect daythere, since there is a sunny spot for cat the potty masters in the flowerstraining, and "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a paddling pool for dog to cool off in, and bird food in cry (the bird feeder, big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and a corn cob for squirrelpersevering panty pride. But, what's this? Here comes bear, lumbering into the garden to eat the corn cob, splash in the water and squash all the flowers!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509840559</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb|title=The Everywhere Bear|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The Everywhere Bear And so it is an important member of Class One. He enjoys ! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a wide range of activities with the children in his classlittle girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, such as bus rides and burgersher cat, football her stuffed rabbit and music. One day, when ither baby sibling that ''she's the new boy, Matt'scan wear super-duper proper pants, turn to bring while they cannot. Neither can the Everywhere Bear back to school Matt sees a cat on flowers, nor the way to schoolfish, and he bends over to give it a cuddlenor the birds. Poor old Bear falls out of MattBoy's bag and into a puddlecertainly can't. This is the start of the BearShe's most exciting (a big girl now and terrifyingshe wants everyone to know it!) adventure yet!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447280733</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William BeeJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=William Bee's Wonderful World of Trucks Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54

|summary= Children will be who they areToots, no matter how you try to change themtrumps, they know what they likefarts. You may want to steer one child away from a world of pink and the other from a world of blue, but turn Whatever your back word for a moment and there they are; one playing with a dollthem, the other find us a trainchild that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. There is nothing wrong with a girl liking traditional girl things Funny to talk about and a boy liking traditional boy thingsjoke about, as long as they are given the opportunity to pick what they wantthat is. Some books But horribly embarrassing if you would assume are for let one or go at the otherwrong time. In class, but actually transcend; these books are simply cool say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in their own righther ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843653257</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle Robinson and Emily FoxB09BG8V3Q6|title=Monkey's SandwichWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=Monkeys have been given the reputation of being cheeky, but do you also see them as petty thieves''Who Needs Nappies? How can these cheerful chimps be seen as anything other than cute, but mischievous little monkeys? Anyone who has driven through Knowsley Safari Park knows Not Me!'' is the truth. A perfectly good car drives latest release in the monkey enclosure only ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to be bereft take the pain out of wing mirrors, hubcaps potty training children and windscreen wipers at the endreplace it with some fun. Rumour has it that the monkeys sell these parts wholesale at It's a lockup in South Kirbyworthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. The monkey in this tale may not be stealing car parts, but he is a little light fingered when it comes to making the ultimate lunch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007580010</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul SticklandB07GZ81J7C|title=Ten Terrible Dinosaurs|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Some things are easier to count than others. How many pens are there on the desk is simple enough. A little trickier is When Fred the number of cars on the road, but stand back Snake Got Squished and you can see them. The fact is that the bigger something is, the further you will need to be from it to count more than one. What would happen though if you were counting something that was not only big, but moving and also prone to eating you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509835520</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMended|author=Nina Laden|title=The Night I Followed the DogPeter Cotton

|summary=ThereMeet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I's m getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a Boy (snake and even those of us who doesn't have a name) and phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a Dog (likewise) box with holes so that he could breathe and in immediately became part of the beginning you get family, to the feeling extent that the Boy they would prefer to have next door's Dog who wins prizes in obedience classes and does clever things take Fred out with the television remote control. That is until one morning them when Boy opens the door a little earlier than usual and spots Dog getting they went out of for a limousinewalk. In a tuxedo. The he disappears into And that was where the back gardenproblem started. BoyFred didn's shocked but a few minutes later he goes to the back door and whistles for Dog, who comes dashing in, anxious to eatt have any road sense. At first Boy can't ''quite'' believe what he ''thinks'' he saw, so he determines to follow Dog the next nightOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452161348</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ted DewanJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Something for Mummy Everybody Pees! (BingEverybody Potties!)|rating=3.54

|summary=Having a child gives Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you a glimpse into a world that you never knew even existed. UnfortunatelyBut really, this not a winter wonderland hidden in a wardrobe, but a world of childrenwhy shouldn's TV characters. The mainstays of the genre t it be? We all have still survived; Sooty, Noddy and Postman Pat, but who is RaRa or Mr Tumble? One popular show that takes some getting used to is Bing, a series all learn about a rabbit that seems our bodily functions just as we have to have a stuffed animal learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as a carer. There are seemingly no parents in the show much fun as if , say, learning about why the town is one giant crèche, so how come Bing sun and his helper Flop are making a gift for Mummythe moon take turns in the sky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008212015</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aino-Maija MetsolaJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=My First Animals No, No, No!

|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a childBookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!''What's That?is based around the simplest text imaginable. '' You will hear it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chairNo, no, hatno! Okay, my sense of regretokay. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too familiarYes, you may. Here the parental practise of making something up comes into play – it'' That's a bird type thing. Books that show images of itemsit! But, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adultlike all the best picture books, but to this tiny snippet of text is a toddler learning about veritable tardis - so much bigger on the world they are a who's who of what's inside thatit appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>1638820457

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Quentin Blake194812467X|title= The Story of the Dancing Frog|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= When Jo's Great Aunt Gertrude's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken and, in despair, she goes for a walk alone. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-pad. But he is no ordinary frog - he's a dancing frog and the two quickly become good friends. Soon the duo are touring the world with their routine, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125910</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFarm Shop|author=Jonny Lambert|title=Tiger Tiger |rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Until you spend a day hanging out with a child you will never know how exhausting it can be. As an adult you are used to peppering your day with little downtime treats; a cup of tea perhaps, a biscuitsDevon Avery, or maybe even a cheeky nap? The kids I know have no end of energy Justine Avery and at best you will get a sip of cold coffee, have to give them most of the biscuit and a nap would consist of them jumping on your head. However, although their enthusiasm and zest may be tiring, it is also infectious, just ask any old tiger you meet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869444X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail)|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= If you ever have the misfortune to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur I offer this piece of advice; don't take your finger and track their spine, don't put it in their mouth and don't go following them to their parent. Instead, run. Run faster than you have ever run before in the opposite direction. The unfortunate thing is that anyone with a toddler knows, they love to grab and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got the chance. Better play safe than sorry and just get them a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariously. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jana Novotny Hunter and Paula Bowles|title=My Tail's Not Tired!Ema Tepic

|summary=Little Monster Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is supposed perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to be going to bedthe top of the hill, but how can he, when his knees they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are still bouncy sheep and his arms still need to fly ducks and his bottom has lots of jiggling cows, goats and wiggling left to do?! As Big Monster groans chickens, and sighseven some mice. Excited, Little Monster's energy seems to have no endKirelle and Sam go shopping. But  What will Little Monster finally wear himself out and end up in bedthey buy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846439868</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Silvia Borando0995647895|title=The Hamster BookSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=Look! You finally have your very own pet, a sweet little hamster. You can give her Sadie's mother always said that she was a name, smooth down her furdreamer, watch her do tricks and give her some foodmind never on what she should be doing. It’s not all fun She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and games with your new hamster however! Of course, every responsible pet owner knows that they need she loves to clean up after their pet, if there are any little accidents..spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<amazonukbr>1406367729''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''</amazonukbr>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg McLaren1782227741|title=Pigeon P.I.Little Gold Ted|rating=3|genre=Emerging Readers|summaryauthor=The world of birds is in a flap. They're being nabbed – plucked from the air (or at least from their cages). Murray MacMurray, the brilliant pigeon private eye, doesn't want anything to do with crime now his old partner has flown the roostVanessa Wiercioch, but an eager Poppy Satha and bright young thing might just about persuade him to take up the case. But both will have to be plucky to survive the dangers it leads to…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444835</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eric Veille|title=My Pictures after the StormSasha Satha

|summary= One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of the staples of baby books are those that look at oppositesstreet. Finding himself This elephant is bigdown in the sewer, whilst this mouse is smallTed starts to panic. They help children to understand ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the world around themdirty water using his cane, but can also be which might look just a little dullbit like an old cricket bat. What about Reg is a more interesting book about cause kind soul and effect that looks at what happens before he dries Ted off and after an event. You could start off gently by seeing what happens to items after warms him up with a storm, but if you are Eric Veillé you can soon spiral into a madcap world nice bowl of elephant stampedes and babies being bornbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571045</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kristyna LittenB08R7LXQ9S|title=Norton Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and AlphaCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5

|summary=We Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are used careful to the world around us wind up Remy when nobody can see and every day take amazing things for granted; a sunset, or then push him just that cold bite in little bit further when the air that makes you want to go and walk the dogother kids are around. To a robotSo, when Remy reacts, our world would look pretty strange it looks as everything would be newthough he was the instigator. What would you think And then he gets into trouble at school and the first time that you teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened upon a flower?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471145778</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Elliott1471191303|title=Dalmation on a DiggerThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=45

|summary=WhatThis is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn's all that noise just outside t afford to put the bedroom window? ''DUGGER DUGGER DIGGER''heating on:

It woke our young pup ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up!the corner of the bedpost.''

The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn'DUGGER DUGGER DIGGER''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782025960</amazonuk>t afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jorg MuhleNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Bathtime for Little RabbitOne Night in Beartown|rating=54

|summary=Bathing a child normally goes one of two ways; they love itMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, or they hate it. Very rarely will you find a child that sits who lives in the bath with a nonplussed expression on their faceBeartown, suffering the ridicules of hygiene is obsessed with an air of indifferent sanguinebears. You are much more likely to have a child that splashes water everywhere in the hopes of finding that one gap in the grouting, or a child that will arch their entire body in the hope that doing so will prevent them touching anything wetShe collects books about bears. A book that teaches a toddler how bathtime Her favourite toy is meant to be may just help your nightly routineBerisford, but also greatly entertain everyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571371</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Duncan Beedie|title=The Lumberjack's Beard|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Jim Hickory is a Lumberjack of routineteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every morningnight, after he gets up, he does his limbering up exercises (very important for a lumberjack!), then he eats his breakfast she looks out of pancakes with maple syrup, before finally getting his trusty axe her bedroom window and heading out into the forest. One day, however, this routine becomes interrupted when he hears someone peck-pecking at his door, only says goodnight to discover it's a small owl who has been made homeless by Jim's tree felling. Jim allows the owl to set up home in his big bushy beard, without realising just quite what he is letting himself in for…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross|title=Barking for Bagels|rating=4bear statue outside.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''Barking for Bagels'' is the story of Schnipp the dog, who loves her owners very much, though Every morning she does find their snickering a little annoying from time says hello to time. One dayBee Bear, whilst out for a walk in the park, she starts to run away, and she finds colourful painted bear that once she starts running she can't stop, and she runs and she runs until she finds Bessie the Bagel lady and thus discovers lives at her new favourite food, and school. She even has bears on her new home.bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178344505X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]