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[[imageCategory:lumplump.jpgNew Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|centerauthor=Adam Stower|linktitle=https://booksMurray and Bun|rating=4.google.com/books?id5|genre=dDc9DQAAQBAJ&printsecConfident Readers |summary=frontcover&dq=lump+lump+Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and+the+blanket+catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of+dreams&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz47visd3QAhVT_WMKHQ8CA8UQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=lump%20lump%20and%20the%20blanket%20of%20dreams&ffrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=false]]0008561249<hr/>[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rose Blake1732898766|title= Going to SchoolThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Sidney Gibbons When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is always in trouble andchasing them. He's right behind them, to make matters worsespewing hot, he insists on blaming the mess he makes on sour milk from his invisible friend – Kevinnostrils. This, however, changes when Sidney actually meets Kevin and discovers what (Please don't try this at home: it is like to be on the receiving won't end of bad behaviourwell. In ) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a magical world ladder of make-believemoss and vines was lowered for them, Sidney finally comes they escaped. They climbed up to realise that he's been selfish the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and resolves to put things right for both his invisible chum and his very own mumGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008207410</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rob BiddulphB0CC9W7GLR|title=Sunk!On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=''Hoist the Colours! Set the Sail! It's time Kit and Teal were just beginning to hit the treasure trail.'' Penguin Blue and his friends are prepared wonder whether it was better to sail the seven seas in search of gold be at home, bored but they become unstuck when a rip in their ship means they're suddenly SUNK! Luck is, howeverwarm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on their side and they find a handy desert island in snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the nick shoreline. On top of time. Here they make the ice was a special new friend and ultimately find a treasure that's worth much more than goldpolar bear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008207402</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jason Rekulak and Kim Smith|title=The X-Files: Earth Children are Weird. A Picture Book|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We know that Dana Scully and Fox Mulder didn't know each other as children As the ice bumped onto the sand, for they met much later on, at work for the FBI. But if they had, they may well have camped out in bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the back yardice. They made have read scary stories to each otherKit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one thing is for sure – Mulder's imagination would have seen aliens everywhereapple and then another. He would have seen mystery in obviously needed to be taken home on the deep impression in the yard, horror in the shadows, bus and given a good meal and the unexplained in any vaguely mysterious noisesomewhere to sleep. For that's what happens on the pages of this picture book – but that's not ''all'' that happens – the truth is something much more peculiar…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1683690273</amazonuk>What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Akala and Sav Akyuz1913839656|title=You Can do AnythingLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary= If you think Todd was excited about rappingspending the weekend with his grandmother, what comes to mind? not least because she made the best beetle juice. The hard streets He packed two pairs of the East Coast dungarees and West Coast of America as they brag about what cars they own his favourite hat and women they date? Rap is like any musical form; it varies greatlythen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. There is loads of Gangster Rap, but what about She had promised to take him to the pop of Will Smith, or the Grime of the UK? Just have a look Friday Night Club at the 80s for loads of unqualified people having a dabble in the format (Wham! Rap)local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. Rap in of itself is nothing but a way to project a message At home, his only friend was his mum and if this message is about trying hard and succeeding, he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it could just might be suitable for a kid's bookbecause he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192747800</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jon Burgerman|title= Rhyme Crime|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Sometimes books for sharing need to be calm and gentle, soporific even, to lure little ones under the duvet and off to sleep. And sometimes books need to be utterly zany, full of bright colours, daft doodle-style illustrations and crazy rhymes for the child to shout out loud. Please, dear parent, do not try to read this wonderful book to your offspring within an hour or two of lights out. Seriously, be warned - You Will Regret It. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192749501</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Georgiana Deutsch and Ekaterina Trukhan1529504775|title= 10, 9, 8... Owls Up Late! |rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= It's tough being a mother owl. Rather than just one or two rambunctious little ones to calm down ready for bed, she has ten of them! And there's so much going on in her tree that she must sometimes despair of ever getting them to sleep. But gradually, one by one, the owlets' eyes begin to droop and they make their way to their comfy little nest until at last . . . zzzzzz! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869704X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Michelle Robinson Amy Sparkes and Claire Powell|title=Have You Seen My Giraffe?Katie Hickey
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|summary=Imagine, if you will, Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the 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 world bus in the toy shop window which you no longer win goldfish would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the fairbus for support, but you could potentially be coming home with a giraffe! and walk behind it. This is Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the situation Repair Shop, hoping that the family in this story find themselves in, and experts there could make it turns out so that having a giraffe in your house may not go down too well her grandchildren could play with your parents!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075993</amazonuk>it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Puttock and Matt Robertson1529504767|title=FluffywuffyThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=3.5
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|summary=Mr Moot, and his dog Fluffywuffy, are Susan was very happy young when she was evacuated from London in their quiet little life together1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. But one day, Mr MootShe needn's cousin, Clarence, comes knocking at t have worried though as she went to the door home of Mr and announces that he has come Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to stay for a week, or a month, or a year! herself. Clarence turns out Gradually she relaxed and began to be a most inconsiderate house guestenjoy her life. Whatever will She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Moot do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808719</amazonuk>Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emilia Dziubak and Przemyslaw Wechterowicz1916459943|title=The Secret Life of a TigerSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=If David Attenborough has taught us anything is that Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a lot goes on in the natural world that we are unaware ofsqueakily baby. Animals will hunt in interesting ways, He's so tired but he can't - or find a mate using secret danceswon't - go to sleep: instead, but did you know that Tigers sometimes sneak up he just lies on apes his blanket and give them new haircuts? ''wails''. The sea offers to help. You will be amazed with It rocks Baby gently and the revelations found waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in Emilia Dziubak and Przemyslaw Wechterowicz- ''s bookla lou, but I am not convinced that this kidla lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's book is based on factsgoing to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191027724X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Bently and Charles Fuge140639131X|title=A Home Full of FriendsPractical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Bramble Badger Philippa Pheasant was out looking for nuts by the river when ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the storm broke and he was so cold that he decided to go straight homeOld Oak Road. On She wrote to the way he met a trail of devastation: Snuffle Dormousemayor about the problem but didn's house has been squashed by t even get a falling treereply. ShePhilippa wasn'd like shelter in Bramble's sett, if he has roomt a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a 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. He's Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a ''little'' bit reluctant because he thinks his sett is in a mess and there isn't much space or dinner available, amateur to start with but what can you do when a friend is in need? the benefits were obvious. Next it's Tipper All the Toad whose home is full of mud, then Boo animals used the crossing and Hedgehog's nest has been covered by leaveswas even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492057X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Atkins and Barbara Vagnozzi1776574338|title=Peck, Hen, PeckLeilong's Too Long! |author=Julia Liu and Ben's Pet (Early Reader)Bei Lynn
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|summary=It probably sounds obviousEvery morning Leilong, but you really shouldn't keep your pet chickens in a bag! Wellthe brontosaurus school bus, that's what I learned from this book which tells us first the story of Tom who puts makes his hen in a bag. The hen pecks way through the bagcity, picking up children as hens are wont he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to dogo downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, and escapes! isn't it? A simple and somewhat tragic tale! What could be a more fun way of going to school? This There is swiftly followed by a story problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about Benwhere he puts his feet and – because he's petlonger than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. Will it be another hen, I wondered? No, actually, after several incorrect guesses, we discover The school decides that Benhe can's pet is only a rabbit!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862482</amazonuk>t be the bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Louise Forshaw1776574028|title=Buzz and Jump! Jump! (Early Reader) Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=After hearing I love a mysterious buzzing in good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the kitchenchild who still enjoys board books (er, mum traps see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a fly in tutu - and becomes a jar, but then she hears the buzzing again..''balletphant''.what could be going on? Meanwhile, Ken the Kangaroo The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who declares himself to be the best at jumpingdrops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!), is jumping everywhere he can The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm....... In this red level book, aimed generally at those who have completed their reception year in school'' OK, let's not go there Some people are two simple, sweet stories in one book, perfect for those who are just learning to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862504</amazonuk>eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Hemming and Julia Seal1838226834|title=Bamboo and I Wish (Early Reader) Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=54
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|summary=With two stories in It was one book, of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there's plenty to like about this simpleundo all the good that parents do, and funny, early readerso the trips out were always so much fun. The first story, BambooA young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, deals with a cheeky panda who has run off to hide. Where can he be? The second story is about a wishing well which is granting wishes left, right and centre! Evaluated as a red level book, it sets itself as being about the right level for those around the end of their reception year.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862512</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Brennan and Jane Tanner|title= Storm Whale|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= This is one of the most beautiful picture books that I have read for a while. ''Bleak was the day and the wind whipped downWhen I and my sisters walked to town…''told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sean Taylor and Kasia MatyjaszekB09MYXSRV4|title=I am Actually a Penguin|rating=4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Do you know a child who loves to dress up? Well this is the perfect picture book for that child. Quite probably the perfect picture book for the parent of that child too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704519</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Barney Saltzberg|title=Chengdu Could Not, Would Not, Fall AsleepCordellya Smith
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|summary=The list of entertaining things about toddlers does When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not include any of burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the following; throwing food against your recently painted wallsfuture. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, nappy depositsunfortunately, or deciding not the ability to use it well. He liked to stay up way past their bedtimetrick other animals. There are few things more unsettling He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a parent than a toddler used to their routine suddenly deciding to stay up way past their bedtime; they scream, they procrastinate, they blub and then finally collapse (and that is just Mum and Dad)race with Turtle. The reason You might think that so many children's books not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about settling down and going to bed is to avoid the staying up eventuality, so will a book about an insomniac panda work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484775651</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer ColemanRob Keeley|title=Hidden World: ForestCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction For Sharing|summary=Sometimes, less is more Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. But a wood doesn't understand thatShe likes carrots, does it – it just stretches on and onbroccoli, expanding outwards cabbage and outwardsaubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and upwards and upwards – it's quite a galling thing for a young person how nice to understandeat. This book reverts to One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the very basic detail teacher, who explains that will let the very young student get a grip fruits grow on the life trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the forestground. Jordan says, whether they can actually see it for the trees in real life or not…"I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carles BallasterosB09FFJF8YS|title=Nee NahYou Can't Wear Panties! Nee Nah(No More Nappies! To )|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the Rescue: Press big, grownup girls out there, the tabspotty masters in training, hear "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the sounds (Sound big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little 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, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the Citybirds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=The cover of this book might tell you all that you need to know if you're buying a book Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for a boy who loves noisy vehiclesthem, but if you dismiss it on those grounds you might be making find us a mistakechild that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Let me tell you a bit Funny to talk about and joke about it, that is. It's a substantially-built board book with suitably rounded corners for when it's used as a missile and it has tabs which take But horribly embarrassing if you to let one go at the pages for the vehicles we're going to be looking atwrong time. There's a helicopterIn class, a police carsay, a fire engine when everyone will hear it and an ambulanceeveryone will laugh. For a lot of books for the youngest children that would be it - and a lot of children would enjoy looking at the picturesAt you. But - thereJustine Avery's more...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937428</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Craig Shuttlewood|title=Town and Country (Turnaround Book)|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I know I should have been working but Ilatest entry in her ''ve just spent the last hour pouring over Everybody Potties!''Town series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and Country''. On the face of it there's a very simple idea here: on each double-page spread you get examples of what happens in towns gently and what happens in calmly, with the countryside with regard to various activitiesfamiliar humour attached, modes of transport and even things like beaches and snowexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. You turn the book one way for the country scene and then flip Everybody does it over for what happens in the town. Down the side of each page there: ''Everybody Toots's a list of things for you to find, complete with a thumbnail of what it is you're looking for.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782404422</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreview <!-- remove 11/8 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=B C R Fegan and Lenny WenB09BG8V3Q6|title=Henry Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and the Hidden TreasureSeema Amjad
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|summary=Henry is a careful young man. He has a lot of treasure and he keeps it very well hidden. We might not call it 'treasure': like his parents weWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'d probably call it 'pocket money' and suggest that what he's not going to spend he should put is the latest release in the bank. But Henry's worried and ''he'' knows that only ''he'' can keep his treasure safe. But what, or who, is he keeping his treasure safe Everybody Potties!''series from''? Well, he has a little sister called Lucy and despite the fact that his parents think he should be nicer to Lucy, Henry knows that she's really a secret ninja spy sent to steal his treasureJustine Avery. Isn't that true of ''all'' little sisters?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995359253</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anna Kovecses|title= Counting Things|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Little Mouse is learning lots of new things in this This series of fun picture books by aims to take the Hungarian illustrator Anna Kovecses, pain out of potty training children and here we see the delightful little rodent counting its way through the jungle, the farmyard, the countryside and the town. On every page the same question is asked, beginning replace it with 'How many . . . ?', and the toddler, with the help of an adult or older sibling, will soon learn to touch the named items on the page and under the flapsome fun. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030365</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Jay|title= Alison JayIt's ABC|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= At first glance, this is a beautiful but fairly standard alphabet book: one letter per page with a nice big picture of an apple or a panda front and centre - after all, the ABC format is pretty restrictiveworthy aim, isn't it? And truth be told, that's all most small people as any frustrated parent will see first time round. But look a little closer . tell you. . |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787410196</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna KovecsesB07GZ81J7C|title=Opposite ThingsWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=Rearing a child is not a competition, but have a conversation with a certain type of parent and they won't agree. Their child can speak four languages. Their child wrote their first sonnet at the age of three. Their child can be seen wistfully looking into the middle distance just wanting to play on the bouncy castleMeet Fred. For meWell, I am happyactually, if my child is happy; you're going to be that doing sums, or eating playmeeting Fred-dohFred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. However, even with a relaxed attitude to educating your kid, it can be fun to learn a little, especially when a book is as fun as Little MouseBut I's ''Opposite Thingsm getting ahead of myself: I''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030381</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Powell|title= Search and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search and Find Book|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Search and find books are usually aimed at children. They are d better tell you a good bit of fun, but they are also a good study tool for adult readers alikemore about Fred. Jane Austen Fred is a fantastic novelist, but her style snake and even those of writing can be daunting for those not used us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to such heavy prosehim. It is very easy to become lost He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the myriad of dialoguefamily, characters and eventsto the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. I find a good plot summary helps when approaching her works, this And that was especially so in where the case of the perplexing and long-winded Emmaproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783708271</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bob SheaJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Scariest Book Ever|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Ghost is a bit of a scaredy-catEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties! After spilling some orange juice on his sheet, he stays at home, naked, and we as readers head out into the woods to tell him what's there. Whilst he tries to persuade us that the woods are super scary and full of bad things, and that we'd be much better off staying in and cleaning the bathroom, we get to see what's really going on in the woods, and try to persuade ghost to come out with us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484730461</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bethan Woollvin|title=Rapunzel)
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|summary=Ah RapunzelCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, how well we all know about her long golden hair and her difficult-to-escape tower! Here, however, the story is told with a twist, because there is no handsome Prince who comes riding by to save Rapunzel from her incarcerationas any parent will tell you. NoBut really, instead we see Rapunzel is smart enough to figure her own way out, defeating the witch, and going on to a successful witch-hunting career.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509842675</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Puttock and Daniel Egneus|title= The Thing|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= One day ''the Thing'why shouldn' falls from the sky and four strangers stumble across t it. At first they are confused. What is ''the Thing''be? What does it do? What is it for? Then the four of them decide We all have to work together learn about our bodily functions just as we have to look after and care for learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn'''the Thing''. Soon word spreads t potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about ''why the Thing'' and others come from far sun and wide to find out more. Gradually a media circus builds up around ''the Thing''. Throughout all of this ''moon take turns in the Thing'' remains silent. Then just as suddenly and silently as it arrived ''the Thing'' departs.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405283718</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Bond Justine Avery and R W AlleyNaday Meldova|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesNo, No, No!
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|summary=With They say the sad passing best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of Michael Bond there this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' is no time like the present to revisit some of based around the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtonsimplest text imaginable. As the character has proved so timeless regular re-issues of the books have appeared and ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.'Best-loved Paddington Stories' That' brings three s it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of these stories together. Does this collection really reflect text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the best inside that it appears on the bear has to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together with marmalade?outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008245037</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Heather Pindar and Sarah Jennings194812467X|title=WishkerThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary= There are few children's series that have been as long lasting as Judith Kerr's ''Mog'' books Kirelle and even though her best friend Sam the cat may no longer be decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with us, there a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a huge back catalogue of old stories farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and images that could be repurposedcustomers are farmyard animals. In the wrong hands reusing old Mog images would seem like a crass cash inThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, but done rightand even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they could still hold the same sentimental appeal that the daft old cat has for so many people. Which way does ''My First Mog ABC'' fallbuy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008245509</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tracey Corderoy and Jorge Martin0995647895|title= Fairy Tale Pets|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Bob is neat. He lives in a neat Sadie and tidy house with Rex his friendly and really quite neat dog. All is well in their neat and happy world except for one thing. Bob needs a job. He decides to be a pet-sitter and is looking forward to looking after cute little hamsters and bunnies. What actually arrives is unfortunately something quite different and poor Bob is quite unprepared for the chaos that ensues when his ''pets'' misbehave. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848694415</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Dogs|author=Mini Grey|title=The Bad Bunnies' Magic ShowMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=In Sadie's mother always said that she was a slight change dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the schedulinggloom, ''<br>''To the Great Hypno is unavailable for tonightMaritime Museum''s magic show. Her imagination was fired..but not to worry, ready She'd love to step into sail the breach are Mr Abra oceans on an ancient sailing ship and Mr Cadabra, a pair of innocent looking bunnieswent back regularly. Their One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show promises to be fast ) and dangerous, missed the closing bell and it certainly turns out to be both, though perhaps not quite the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the way the bunnies midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471157601</amazonuk>in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Jarman and Lynne Chapman1782227741|title=Class One Farmyard FunLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=3.54
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|summary=When Class One go on day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a trip deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the farm, side of the day is not plain sailingstreet. Finding himself The teacherdown in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. 's traumas don't revolve around the usual OH HELP ME PLEASE'who will be sick on the coach' issues however, he cries and instead relate to one rather grumpy farmyard animal - alerts the bull! All sorts attention of trauma ensues when Reg the bull escapes from his fieldsewer rat, and it takes a lot who plucks him out of the children working together to be able to catch him back in dirty water using his field cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and lock warms him up. All things considered, this probably isn't the best book for any teachers to read aloud the day before with a school trip..nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927159</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antje DammB08R7LXQ9S|title=Waiting for GoliathRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Bear Remy is waiting for Goliathfeeling miserable. ThatHe's Bear on the cover and it was what first drew me to this book. He looks so let himself down ''forlornagain'' that I wanted to know what the problem was. The school bully Jayden, He's not exactly forlorntogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, but calling him names because he is short and has been waiting at the bus stop since dawn small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and he might be getting then push him just a that little bit bored. He lies down (legs dangling down and tummy flat on further when the seat) and explains to everyone that Goliath is his best friendother kids are around. Robin wanted to know if Goliath is So, when Remy reacts, it looks as strong as Bear and Bear says that though he iswas the instigator. He's smart too. He can count to eighteen. Bear's obviously been And then he gets into trouble at school and the stop for quite a while as the spring flowers have fallen from the trees. Heteachers don's there through the dark too - t believe him when he just curls up and sleeps on the seattries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>177657141X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Reece Wykes1471191303|title=I Dare YouThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=2.5
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|summary=Some children's books require This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a robust sense of humour from house - a parentvery cold house, or at least because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the ability bedpost.'' The family didn't go to look the cinema or on holidays but they had each other way when a book is being naughtyand they were happy. There are more books on pants Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and poo than could fill a landfill, but when is something too they had to move to the far for a children's book? side of the city. Bragging? Lying? Cannibalism?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445378</amazonuk>This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.
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|title=One Night in Beartown
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|summary= Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!
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