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|isbn=18497669201806344777|title=Everything is MINEArthur and the Land of Nimbostratus: Arthur's Able Adventures|author=Andrea D'AquinoRob Keeley
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|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like that? Arthur dreams of adventures. He knows that you'll realise that looks out of his window each day and thinks of all the escapades he's kindcould have, clever the places he could go and loyal. You'll also need to know that everything is '''MINE'''. And he means ''everything''. It begins with the slipper: mum still has one. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that things he's being generous in allowing that. Then it was the pork chop. Well, did you could see anyone's name on it? ''And'' he left the carrots for Leo. ThatHis favourite day is Saturday because that's another example of Marcello's generosity. There was the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation to prove ownership. And talking day his friend Maxine - she of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want booming laugh and silver bangles - comes to chewvisit. There's nothing unreasonable Maxine is a great believer in any the power of that, is there?imagination.
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|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=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 catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening 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=18497670090008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=It IsnThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=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 chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't Rude end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to be Nudethe Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Rosie HaineChris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=This could have been one 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 silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of those books which 'preaches to the choir': ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the only people who'll buy ice. Kit was all for making a run for it are , but Teal knew that the people who know that nudity is OK bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the ones who ''know'' that itbus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Let's shameful will avoid it like they avoid Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the hot-best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and-bothered person in then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the supermarket who is coughing fit local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to bustmake new friends. ButAt home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4. Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. ItElsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he's a celebration of bodies: bodies large d been born with cerebral palsy and small and of every possible hueeven just standing up was very difficult. Bodies with disabilities One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and markingswas happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. They're fineGradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. In factMany decades later, they're wonderfulElsie 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.
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|authorisbn=Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager1529504767|title=Child of GalaxiesThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=What does it mean Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to be alive? her final destination. What are we made She needn't have worried though as she went to the home ofMr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and where are we going? began to enjoy her life. She''Child of Galaxies'' is a lovely children's picture book that deals d help Mrs Russell with all the big questionsbaking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. Written as a poem, the lyrical words don't shy away from darkness, nor talk down to the children you are reading to, but rather than work beautifully together with The best surprise happened the illustrations to create a powerful, uplifting reading experiencefollowing morning.|isbn=1912497425
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|isbn=19481245721916459943|title=Think Outside the BoxSqueakily Baby|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukBeth Webb
|rating=4
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|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all 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 'Whenever you find a problem <br>'wails'Wherever there's a puzzle . The sea offers to solve <br>help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''However . Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you get stuck have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a sticky situation <br>seagull '''shouts''Just think outside the box'and we know exactly what's going to happen next.}}And so begins {{Frontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=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 latest picture book from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiukproblem but didn't even get a reply. It Philippa wasn's t a clarion call bird to children 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. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to use their imaginations start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and not logic alone when it comes Hedgehog was even trained up to solving problemsprovide a safe path overnight.
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|isbn=19481244401776574338|title=What Wonders Await OutdoorsLeilong's Too Long!|author=Justine Avery Julia Liu and Liuba SyrotiukBei Lynn
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|summary=The second book in Justine Avery's Wonders series is Every morning Leilong, the perfect antidote to long summer days with bored children - orbrontosaurus school bus, indeedmakes his way through the city, picking up children as wehe goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It've found recentlys perfect, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is rolling across a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the world. What do you do when every book has been read city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and every toy has been played with, repurposed, – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and played with again?traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.
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|isbn=17765728581776574028|title=How Do You Make a Baby?Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)David Elliott|rating=54|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. love a good board book! My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me 'Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a book about niche market: it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet 's for the child who still enjoys board books (which delivered nothing more than the basicser, in clinical see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told skills to have realise that it wouldnyou can 't be discussed any further as it 'play'wasn't with words and make something which nice people talked aboutquite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. I The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''knew. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a '' more, but was little crynoceros''wiser(think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm...... .'' ThankfullyOK, times have changed.let's not go there Some people are eating!
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Daria Yudina1838226834|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary=This Living Book is on a missionIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. WhatThey's re there to undo all the mission? To make you laugh! I can't think of many better missions than good thatparents do, can you? Let's see how it does..so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
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|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Justine Avery Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Daria YudinaHare|titleauthor=Baby Trolls Get a Bad Rap (Underrated Babies Book 1)Cordellya Smith
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|summary=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 burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4|genre=For Sharing|summary= HoratioLily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, Saul cabbage and Grizelda aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are three baby trolls for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who are fed up tells her that everyone forgets about baby trollscarrots grow on trees. They are ignored Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in books the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and TV shows everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and films Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in favour training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of their very scary grown upstoilet triumph and persevering panty pride. Our three heroes want equal rights for baby trolls. They want '' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to be seen nappies and pull-ups and heard 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 theycannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She've started s a petition about it that they want you big girl now and she wants everyone to sign. But how should they go about know it? |isbn= B07XGN4LGY!
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|author=Justine Avery and Daria YudinaNaday Meldova|title=This Book Is AliveEverybody Toots! (Living BookEverybody Potties!)
|rating=4
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|summary= Books Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn''want'' you to read t find them! They're not intimidating or standoffish or particular about readersirresistibly funny. Books ''want'' Funny to be readtalk about and joke about, that is. This is But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the key message in wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest offering, entry in her ''This Book Is AliveEverybody Potties!''. By anthropomorphising the relationship between book series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and young readercalmly, she's sending an invitation to all - pick me upwith the familiar humour attached, read me, be my friend, we can go on a journey togetherexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. ItEverybody does it: ''Everybody Toots's a great message, don't you think?!|isbn= 1948124416B09C2RVJ2W}}
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Justine Avery and Ema Tepic |title=I Dreamed YouSeema Amjad
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|summary=It is always a pleasure to review a new book by Justine Avery and ''I Dreamed YouWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' carries on is the tradition beautifully. This little book is latest release in the perfect exemplar of our category name, ''For SharingEverybody Potties!''series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It is a mother's love letter to her childa worthy aim, told in rhyme formas any frustrated parent will tell you. .|isbn=1948124505}}
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|isbn=1838593187B07GZ81J7C|title=Guess What I Found in When Fred the Playground!Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Victoria ThompsonPeter Cotton
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Tilly is excitedMeet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. SheBut I's just come dashing out m getting ahead of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and myself: I'd better tell you a big grin on her facebit more about Fred. Dad's come to collect her Fred is a snake and her brother and he ''has'' even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to try warm to guess what she found him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the playground todayfamily, although she concedes to the extent that he will never guessthey would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. Dad wants to know how school And that was, but ''obviously'' that's not importantwhere the problem started. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (IsnFred didn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuffhave any road sense. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guessOr brakes.
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|isbnauthor=1686751680Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
|rating=4
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|summary=Which child doesn't think that their mother is, well, ''weird''Can potty training ever be joyous? It might be that in the morning their mother doesnoften isn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when , as any parent will tell you're at your brightest with lots to say? ''Why'' then does Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then there's doing yoga in front of the television. But really, which could be worrying if it wasnwhy shouldn't so funnyit be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. We wonWhy shouldn't go into too potty training be as much detail fun as, say, learning about what goes on in why the bathroom sun and the colour changes which have occured when Mummy emerges and frankly, the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts on moon take turns in the wall. I mean, what else would you use paint forsky?|isbn= B098BJZYHH
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|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukNaday Meldova|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?No, No, No!
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|summary=''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But nowThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, it's time, to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br>a Bookbag favourite.
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|isbn=0993340334194812467X|title=BunnyThe Farm Shop|author=Peter Lynas Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Clare LindleyEma Tepic
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|summary=You might have seen Bunny on Kirelle and her best friend Sam the beach where he livedcat decide to go for a walk. Like many beaches it was full of sand Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Bunny didn't like sand, not least because it got between Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his toes and ''scratched''. What he really liked was juicy green grasssmart grey fur coat. All the other rabbits lived on As they walk to the top of the cliffhill, where Bunny could they see a lot of tasty-looking grassbig barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the cliff was very highstallholders 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?
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|isbn=19258200250995647895|title=Once, I was LovedSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Belinda LandsberryMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=TockSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the toy rabbit, is in a box of toys going River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to the charity shopspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. He realises that he 's not wanted any more, but muses that it wasn't always this way. Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''Once<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, he says, ''I <br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was lovedfired. 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. And he tells us When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of all the children who an adventure that she could never have loved him over the yearsimagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.
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|isbn=09933403421782227741|title=Madeleine Goes to the MoonLittle Gold Ted|author=Peter Lynas Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Charlie RobertsSasha Satha
|rating=4
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|summary=Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in her roomOne day, she has all Gold Ted falls into a girl could ask for in the way of toys, books, games and dolliespuddle. SheIt's quite a very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination deep puddle and everything in her room can be used the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to take her spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on adventuresthe side of the street. She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to be alone, but Madeleinepanic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE''s not alone on all he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the trips she takes. We'll find sewer rat, who plucks him out that yesterday she was told to tidy her roomof the dirty water using his cane, but instead which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of doing that, she went to the moonbroth.
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|isbn=0993340318B08R7LXQ9S|title=Recipe for Making a SnowmanRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Peter Lynas Mayuri Naidoo and Rosie AlabasterCaroline Siegal
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|summary=Who knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a snowman - and thereRemy is feeling miserable. He's no cooking involved! let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, Mumtogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, Dad have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and the two children has small eyes. They are absolutely meticulous though: mean but they're going are not stupid. They are careful to get everything right, even down to doing some mining to get the coal for the eyes, searching through the bits 'n bobs jar for buttons for the snowman's coat wind up Remy when nobody can see and picking out then push him just that little bit further when the perfect piece of headgearother kids are around. There's quite a choice availableSo, but the family decide on the bobble hatwhen Remy reacts, presumably to keep it looks as though he was the snowman warminstigator. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply wonAnd then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't do and a pair with purple and pink stripes are chosenbelieve him when he tries to explain what happened.}}�{{Frontpage|isbn=09933403501471191303|title=The Very Rude ToytoiseInvisible|author=Peter Lynas and Andy S GrayTom Percival
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|summary=It was one This is the story of those blissful days in the forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to make Isobel, a cake. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build little girl who made a nestbig difference. Mrs Spider was busily spinning Isobel lived with her parents in a web to catch juicy flies. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably in house - a chairvery cold house, fishing for lunch. What could be better? And then...}}�{{Frontpage|isbn=1925810097|title=Donbecause her parents couldn't Drink afford to put the Pinkheating on:|author=B C R Fegan|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Madeline is very fond ''Ice curled across the inside of Grandfather Gilderberry. He's always busy in his workshop, creating crazy potions, the window and he always has a smile on his facecrept up the corner of the bedpost. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers and Madeline The family didn's mum thinks t go to the same cinema or on holidays but gives him a pass because he's oldthey had each other and they were happy. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great. Particularly on her birthday Then the day came when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions they couldn't afford the rent for the house and allows her they had to move to choose one as a giftthe far side of the city. And he always says This part of the same thing..city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.
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|isbnauthor=1910989339Nick Jones and Si Clark|title=Loved to Bits|author=Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonOne Night in Beartown|rating=54
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|summary=''Loved to Bits'' 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 the heartwarming story of Berisford, a boy's love for his teddy bearpassed down by her grandmother. Bear's adventures with boy take him to all kinds Every night, she looks out of places her bedroom window and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their way, from the jungle says goodnight to the seabear statue outside. Inevitably mishaps occur on the way. The loss of an armEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a leg, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery ''don't worry, I've got one more''. But boy loves him just as he is and won't hear of him being mended. His place, after all, is in Boy's bedcolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}}
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