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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Pankhurst -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Pankhurst_Women.jpg|leftauthor=Adam Stower|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408878909/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]Murray and Bun|rating===[[Fantastically Great Women Who Made History by Kate Pankhurst]]===4.5[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] A lot of history one who is about men. Kings able to sleep and eat and generals eat and inventors sleep and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at allwell, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't true and there are plenty whatever takes his fancy next of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of themtwo. [[Fantastically Great Women Who Made History by Kate Pankhurst|Full Review]]<br><!-- Gonsalves remove 8/2 --> *[[image:Gonsalves_Queen.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546287663/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] ===[[Lamellia: The Wicked Queen by Gloria D Gonsalves]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Lamellia is But he's a kingdom of mushrooms in bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a land far away. Many types and colours of mushroom live there hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they are all ruled over by King PoliPoliboth use can chuck them out, a big brown mushroom who is a wise and kind leader. King PoliPoli is married to not into the beautiful Queen Nobilia. But Queen Nobilia cannot conceive regular back garden, but into a baby world of frightening adventure and this makes her very sadwhiffs. She sings This time round it drops them into a sad song so emotive that her sorrow infects the whole Viking land. [[Lamellia: The Wicked Queen by Gloria D Gonsalves|Full Review]]<br><br> <!-- Seuss -->*[[image:Seuss_Read.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008240019?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0008240019]] ===[[I Can Read With My Eyes Shut by Dr Seuss]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Emerging Readers| Emerging Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] ''The more that you read,''<br>''The more things you will know.''<br>''The more that you learn,''<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This where a troll hunter is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this bookexpected – well, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The book is very sillymuch bigger than Murray was, as Dr Seuss always isto be honest, but is also a good rhyming ode he's turned up and he'll have to the joys of reading. [[I Can Read With My Eyes Shut by Dr Seussdo…|Full Review]]isbn=0008561249<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Campbell -->*[[image:Campbell_Bog.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1546282718?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINisbn=1546282718]]1732898766|title===[[The Adventures of Billy Bog Brush!Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Fire Brigade by Ian Campbell Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Tim Constable]]Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating===4[[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Billy Bog Brushsummary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they's family have gone out re running for their lives in the day, leaving him staring out Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the window Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at the lovely weather outside and wondering what he could do to pass the timehome: it won't end well. Suddenly) Fortunately, he hears they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a desperate cry ladder of moss and vines was lowered for helpthem, they escaped. Mrs Brown's house is on fire, They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the key is insidetangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and her little boy Tommy is locked inGranny Cranny. Tommy is in terrible danger and what if the fire brigade doesn't arrive in time? [[The Adventures of Billy Bog Brush!: The Fire Brigade by Ian Campbell and Tim Constable|Full Review]]<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Donald -->|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR*[[image:Donald_Pirates.jpg|left|linktitle=httpsOn the Beach://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848862474?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1848862474]]The Winter Visitor ==|author=[[Pirates in Classroom 3 by Alison Donald Chris Green and Ben Whitehouse]]==Jenny Fionda|rating=5 [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Not all summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of us were silvery ice drifted onto the child that paid attention in classshoreline. Some would look out On top of the window ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and let their minds wanderwith wobbly legs moved from the ice. Why be stuck in Kit was all for making a stuffy room when you could be in space or on run for it, but Teal knew that the high seas? Sometimes you do not need to seek adventure as it may just find youbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. It makes perfect sense He obviously needed to me that if be taken home on the teacher leaves the classroom there is ample time for bus and given a pirate to enter good meal and ask all the children somewhere to help him find some lost treasuresleep. Who could possibly give up this opportunity What else would you do? [[Pirates in Classroom 3 by Alison Donald and Ben Whitehouse|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Thorp and Angus Mackinnon1913839656|title=The Elephant in the RoomLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=Somebody has smashed Father Giant's elephantTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. Who on earth could it be? He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Can Father Giant unravel She had promised to take him to the mystery of what happenedFriday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and who will face being banished from the house forever once he discovers the truth? wondered why that could be. Told in a rhyme Grandma thought that gets more and more surreal as it goes along, this is a wild and brightly illustrated mystery story, with an interesting moral at the endmight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707739</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessie Miller and Barbara Bakos1529504775|title=Rooster Wore Skinny JeansThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=One of the best things about modern online shopping is the knock on Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the door park and watch the parcel arrivingred buses drive past. What 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 it I ordered again? very difficult. It could be something as exciting as One day Elsie spotted a new bus in the toy, or something shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as boring as a new mixer for your showercash was tight at home. The anticipation of opening the box is as close Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the feeling of Christmas that an adult is going to get (except perhaps bus for Christmas)support, and walk behind it. Rooster has ordered something online Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it arrived quickly. Will his farmyard pals appreciate his buy as much as he does?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862822</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bob Graham1529504767|title= How the Sun Got to Coco's HouseThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= A tale of small moments: sunlight on a sailorSusan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn's cap t have worried though as he sets out on an early-morning fishing expeditionshe went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, a rainbow after a shower and a glint of light in a whalewho couldn's eyet have been kinder to her. While Coco sleeps, curled up snugly in She even had her bed, creatures own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and people across the world are waking up began to the sunenjoy her life. It chases the night away across She'd help Mrs Russell with the globe, until at last a bright ray finds its way to Coco's window baking and wakes her when it came to another day of fun Christmas Eve Susan and laughter as she plays outside in Mr Russell put the decorations on the snowChristmas tree. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406373451</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katie Haworth and Dinara Mirtalipova1916459943|title= Beauty and the BeastSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary= We Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all know dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the story waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of beauty gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the beastsound perfectly. A prince, transformed The mermaids join in to a monster for his cruel and malicious nature- ''la lou, trapped in his grotesque form seemingly la lay...'' And for the rest of a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his dayseyes. Then comes along a young woman, the beauty of the story, who mellows the beastseagull '''shouts'''s harsh character and grows to love him for who he is, and not because of his appearance. Itwe know exactly what's a fairy tale of old and a story of love crossing boundaries which has been adapted countless times both on screen and in literaturegoing to happen next. So is this new retelling worth the read? I think so, because I loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704578</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Lemony Snicket Briony May Smith|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't 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 Matthew Forsythedecided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=The Bad Mood Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and the StickBei Lynn
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|summary=As Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the title suggestscity, this is a story about a bad mood and a stickpicking up children as he goes. The bad mood (an emoji-like cloud character) moves from one character Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to another, travelling all around go downstairs – they simply climb out of the world window and causing unpredictable consequencesslide down his neck. The stick It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is just a stick problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and does very little other – because he's longer than providing a home for a cocoon that gives birth tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to butterflyand traffic regularly gets snarled up. The stickschool decides that he can's final home in the window of the ice cream shop does, however, put t be the shop owner, Bert, in a good moodbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783446420</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sean Taylor and Claire Alexander1776574028|title= The SnowbearBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= ThereI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child 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 something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a sense of wonder tutu - and stillness about fresh-fallen snow, whatever your agebecomes a ''balletphant''. Sounds are muffled, familiar objects The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and places are transformed, and the possibility of magic hangs in the frosty airthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. And for Iggy and Martina, playing outside The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on just such his potty changes into a winter''sm.......'' OK, let's day, reality swiftly turns into enchantment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277398</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Melling1838226834|title= Merry Christmas, Hugless DouglasCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Hugless Douglas is a large, comfy sort It was one of bear who burst onto those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the picture book scene a few years ago as he searched for just good that parents do, so the right sort of hugtrips out were always so much fun. His endearing, hopeful face and that chubby (to put it politely) body instantly melted A young hearts, and boy was going to universal delight we have since been treated to several more of the carnival with his adventures. Douglas is hugless no longerGrandad, youwho told him: ''It'll be glad to knowbrilliant, but the name stuckjust remember, mostly because itdon's such fun to say (go on, try it!) and because he still bumbles through life embracing everything in sight as if cuddles are about to t let go out of fashionmy hand. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444906844</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hendra and Paul LinnetB09MYXSRV4|title=SupertatoOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: Evil Pea RulesA Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=For all their heroics and lantern jawsWhen the world was made, everyone knows the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that the good guy is never the best thing about he could become a book or filmprotector. That accolade goes to the bad guyWater Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. They are able to chew Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the scenery present ''and give '' the type of larger than life performance a hero could only dream offuture. One of Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the best bad guys ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in childrena race with Turtle. You might think that's fiction is not a guy at all, fair contest but a peawait and see. An evil peaThings are not always as they seem. At last this pea is given his opportunity to shine, but where there is an Evil Pea, a Supertato cannot be far behindI'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471144062</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph Coelho Rob Keeley|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is 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 carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the 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 birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Fiona LumbersNaday Meldova|title=Luna Loves Library DayEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Luna is always excited when library day comes aroundToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, not just because she gets find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to take her books back talk about and borrow some new onesjoke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, but also because when everyone will hear itand everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's the day she spends latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with her dad. Once inside the librarytooting and gently and calmly, magical things occur as with the books Luna and her dad discover seemingly come to life. They spend their time together sharing storiesfamiliar humour attached, some explains that are more significant than others, until tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''s time for Luna to go home!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4. Yet even once she5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!''s home, she still has her newly borrowed series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to escape into, and take the memories pain out of her day potty training children and replace it with her dadsome fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445483</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title= Alison Ritchie When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Marisa MoreaMended|titleauthor= The Twelve Dogs of ChristmasPeter Cotton|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Christmas Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is approaching a snake and one little puppy is very excited even those of us who have a phobia about his first ever Christmas Daysnakes are going to warm to him. Everywhere He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he looks could breathe and immediately became part of the preparations are underway family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with every dog in town helping them when they went outfor a walk. However will so many eager assistants joining in And that was where the fray help or hinder and will everything ever be ready in time?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471166171</amazonuk>problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr SeussJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=What Was I Scared Of?Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=All HallowsCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn' Eve is upon us once more and that can only mean that we are soon to be surrounded by all types of monsters, ghoulies and manifestations. Fear nott, as many of these unsettling creatures any parent will actually be children dressed up on another adventure trick or treatingtell you. But what really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about that pair of seemingly malevolent trousers that walk by themselves? That is no child, but a pair of haunted keckseverything else when we are small. RunWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, runsay, run, but perhaps if you have them a friendly hello these pants may be nicer than you thinklearning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008252602</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Morag HoodJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=I Am BatNo, No, No!|rating=54
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|summary=Bat is They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a creature with very definite opinionsBookbag favourite. He does not like mornings ''No, for exampleNo, but he does like cherriesNo!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. In fact ''No, he really loves cherriesno, as they are his ''favourite of all thingsno!Okay, okay. Yes, you may.'' What do you think might happen if somebody takes Bat That's cherries? Bat won't be happyit! But, like all the best picture books, will he?!this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509834613</amazonuk>1638820457
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|summary=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 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 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 sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.
What will they buy?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|authortitle=Kes Gray Sadie and Jim Fieldthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Oi Cat!Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=When did childrenSadie's books become so Meta? Back in the day each Thomas the Tank Engine adventure mother always said that she was separate from the other as if they lived in their own episodic wildnessa dreamer, but not todayher mind never on what she should be doing. In this world of Nintendo Switches She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and online platforms the average adult is too scared she loves to venture onto, we have metaphysical children booksspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Books that reflect back on previous outings ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the series. If you are going to get the most out of gloom,''Oi Cat!<br>'', you best know about your To the Maritime Museum''Oi Frog!'. 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'Oi Dog!s Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don' toot 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444932519</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cath Jones and Chris Jevons1782227741|title=Bonkers about BeetrootLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=Sunset Safari Park rarely has any visitors One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is in danger of closing swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down. To tackle a drain on the problem Zebra calls a meeting side of all the animals and challenges them to find a way street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to make the safari park more interestingpanic. Penguin thinks there's no hope but Zebra has a totally bonkers idea – they'll grow a beetroot. TheyOH HELP ME PLEASE''ll grow he cries and alerts the biggest beetroot in attention of Reg the world! It should be easy because they have plenty sewer rat, who plucks him out of manure (animal poo) to help it growthe dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. At first it looks like Zebra's plan Reg is going to work. One beetroot grows so big that crowds a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of people come to see it. There is just one problem – the beetroot keeps growing. Soon there won't be any room for visitors. Luckily, Zebra has another idea: an equally bonkers but totally brilliant ideabroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862814</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Madeleine Cook and Samara HardyB08R7LXQ9S|title=The Turkey That Voted For ChristmasRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=34
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|summary=Most right minded people have had enough of politics in recent years so the last thing that you want to read to your child Remy is a book all about an electionfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, At least this election together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is set on a farm, short and has small eyes. They are mean but anyone familiar with a certain George Orwell novel will know they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that this does not always turn out for little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the bestinstigator. Surely a kidAnd then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don's book is not going t believe him when he tries to reflect modern politics? I mean, when have we recently seen turkeys voting for Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192765957</amazonuk>explain what happened.
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|summary=This 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't afford to put the heating on:
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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'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.}}{{Frontpage|author===[[Words Nick Jones and Your Heart by Kate Jane Neal]]=Si Clark|title=One Night in Beartown|rating=4 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]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, [[:Category: Emerging Readersa colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!| Emerging Readers]]isbn=B08NFH7H9X}}
Trolling, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say Move on to other people is positive. We can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, and bit by bit the world can be a better place. And hang the 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that's not really an issue.[[Words and Your Heart by Kate Jane Neal|Full ReviewNewest General Fiction Reviews]]<br>