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|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
|summary=Meet Colin. He's a perfectly regular cart horse, carrying the crops, tools and children around the farm. He's happy with a life of labour, resting after his shift is done about three every afternoon, and a life of hay – that is, however, until he wonders what his fellow farm animals are eating. What could be the consequence of him trying out every other farm food on the market?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315437</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Bolam
|title=Let's Sing and Play
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Monkeys are vocal animals and if you walk through the jungle you may hear them scream. Perhaps they have just slid down an elephant's trunk or maybe they are just attempting to sing? Having a child means that you will start to hear the same rhymes over and over again, so if it takes a few cheeky monkeys to teach us a few new ones, I am happy with that. Just don't let them jump on top of my car at the Safari Park.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447286979</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Phil Allcock and Gina Maldonado
|title=Animal Magic
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Having read many children's books in recent years I have come to know the concept of nonsense rhymes. I don't mean silly adventures that happen to be written in rhyming couplets; I mean bad rhymes. The best books for sharing should have fluidity to them, the story simply rolls off the tongue as you turn the pages. Too many times I have read a book in which the rhymes just don't scan and you end up tripping over your words. So as this book is part of the ''Nonsense Animal Rhymes'' series, does the nonsense come from the story being daft, or because the rhymes are nonsensical?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862326</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elli Woollard
|title=The Secret Pirate (Swashbuckle Lil: The Secret Pirate)
|rating=4
|genre= Emerging Readers
|summary= School girl Lil is a secret pirate. Her classmates think she's an ordinary girl and assume they're just imagining things when they hear her bag squawk. They don't know that's where she keeps her parrot (whose name is Carrot). Her teacher, Miss Lubber, thinks Lil's naughty and is unaware that Lil's really trying to save the teacher from being kidnapped by the wicked pirate, Stinkbeard. But Lil doesn't mind because she knows the truth – she's a bold and brave pirate and all her adventures are true (at least to her).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808825</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gavin Puckett and Tor Freeman
|title=Hendrix the Rocking Horse (Fables from the Stables 2)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Poor Hendrix. He has a nice life and a nice farmer's field, but he's bored. All the excitement of the world is just too far away, except for the time the fairground came to town, complete with Ferris wheel, rides, stilted jugglers and the Tumbling Pebbles playing a gig. He could hear all of their concert – even dancing and prancing around his field as a result. But little did he know what would happen when the lead guitarist's instrument literally fell off the back of their tour bus, and Hendrix had a chance to find the music within…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315402</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Donaldson and Lucy Richards
|title=Night Monkey, Day Monkey
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=A night monkey should only be awake in the night. A day monkey should only be awake in the day. They should never have to experience the 'wrong' side of their routine. But what happens when they each in turn wake the other up, and night monkey has to suffer the brightness of day, and the day monkey the spooky life without sunlight? Well this lovely book is what happens – proof positive that despite the old adage, polar opposites can be a twain that can meet – and just about get along perfectly well, thank you.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283343</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pip Jones
|title=Squishy McFluff: Seaside Rescue!
|rating=4.5
|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary= Ava and her invisible cat – Squishy McFluff – are off to the seaside for their latest adventure together. They have great fun digging in the sand towards Australia and sitting on the beach eating ice cream. (Although the adults who fall in their hole and the ice cream man may not share their enthusiasm.) Everything is purr-fect until invisible cat Squishy decides to chase an invisible fish. Now it's up to Ava to stage a 'seaside rescue'…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571320686</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard
|title=Now We Are Six
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=We can see the signs in [[The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne and E H Shepard|The House at Pooh Corner]] that Christopher Robin is growing up and now he has school work to do. But he's a lucky little boy as he has Winnie the Pooh to help him. Or is he lucky, given that Winnie is also known as 'the Bear of very little brain'? Actually, Pooh has a message for us in the introduction: he says that he walked through the book one day, looking for his friend Piglet, and sat down on some of the pages by mistake. He hopes that we won't mind.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280867</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard
|title=When We Were Very Young
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=I've never been fond of poetry: there's something missing in my soul as I cannot see the benefits of saying something in verse form when it could be expressed more simply. I often wish that I was different and just occasionally some verse will touch me: it has happened with [[:Category:Wendy Cope|Wendy Cope]] and now with this delightful volume from A A Milne. As I read there was a curious mixture of ''good'' memories from childhood (and they were all too rare) and new material which struck a chord. The 'decorations' by E H Shepard didn't do any harm either!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280859</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Clement C Moore and Max Marshall
|title= The Night Before Christmas
|rating= 5
|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary= Everyone knows the classic story of the night before Christmas, but as a child I never had it in a standalone book like this and, it seems, I never knew there was quite as much to the tale. If you don't already own a version, this new release is a must buy for the presentation alone.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959125</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Roger Stevens
|title=I Wish I had a Pirate Hat
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=I was worried, initially, that all these poems were going to be about pirates. How would Roger Stevens keep the interest going if he was confined to the staple diet of treasure maps and skull and cross bones? In fact there are only three pirate poems but they are the first three and the book cover gives little indication of the variety within. ''I Wish I had a Pirate Hat'' contains forty five poems grouped into Fun Time, School Time, Home Time. No poem is longer than a page and there’s sufficient range of form and tone to keep one reading. There’s also sufficient consistency to allow one to drop in at random and with confidence.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780618X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jules Nilsson
|title=The Hounds of Falsterbo
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=''In between the beach huts''<br>
''Where the white sands meet the seas,''<br>
''The heather meets the sand dunes''<br>
''And long grasses dance the breeze.''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tony Ross
|title=Bedtime Rhymes
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=It is getting late so it is time to start the bedtime routine; upstairs for a wash, clean your teeth and then into your PJs. Settle into bed and what now? A story perhaps, or some night time nursery rhymes. Is it just me or do many of these bedtime tales feel a lot more sinister than their daytime cousins?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440473</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tony Ross
|title=Playtime Rhymes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Great news! Your friends are having a baby! That pretty much means that everybody you know has at least one or two rug rats crawling around the place. It’s all well and good, but how can you possibly come up with another present for a baby? Thankfully, great books and wonderful nursery rhymes are always in fashion – combine the two and you have a gift that you may just want to keep for yourself.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440481</amazonuk>
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