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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick O'BrienAdam Stower|title=You Are The First Kid On MarsMurray and Bun
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|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…
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{{Frontpage
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|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon
|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
|rating=4
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|summary=It 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 a sci-fi future of no danger whatsoeverchasing them. He's right behind them, with no technological breakdownspewing hot, and no fatal meteor strike, but that of course is only to be expected for this marketsour milk from his nostrils. I say (Please don't try this at home: it more to highlight how won't end well the book has been illustrated. ) Digital airbrush techniques Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and more have taken the antiseptic sheen off vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the whole experience, but have still allowed for a great detail Tree Wee homes high up in the machinerytangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and also a lovely warmth in the face of the lad we're empathising withGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399246347</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Abbott Nez B0CC9W7GLR|title=Cromwell Dixon's Sky-CycleOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=Meet Cromwell DixonKit 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. He's On top of the ice was a real tinkererpolar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, forever in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusualthe bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that word - he's around at the birth of powered flightbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. Will his plans for He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a pedalled air machine workgood meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Helmore and Karen Wall1913839656|title=Oh No, Monster Tomato!Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=Marvin is entering Todd was excited about spending the Great Grislygust Grow-Offweekend with his grandmother, but just like him, his tomatoes aren't growing very bignot least because she made the best beetle juice. He takes the only sensible course packed two pairs of action: he sings dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his tomatoes a songgrandmother. The results are spectacular She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. Victory is surely within At home, his only friend was his graspmum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524741X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain Smyth and Michael Terry1529504775|title=The Wide-Mouthed FrogToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Do you know Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the joke about park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the widepark but David couldn't -mouthed frog? You must have heard ithe'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. It's One day Elsie spotted a classicbus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. It's one that you really need to tell in person, with your fingers pulling your mouth wide open Gradually, but David learned to hopefully spark your memorystand up, use the wide-mouthed frog introduces himself to a number of animals until he finally comes across a crocodile who eats wide-mouthed frogsbus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the frog does his best to disguise who he is whilst saying ''Oohbus, you don't see many of those round herenow damaged and rusted, do you?'' I'm hardly doing it justiceto the Repair Shop, but hoping that the experts there could make it's very cheesy and funny. Anyway, this is a book of so that jokeher grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408804964</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ursula Jones and Sarah Gibb1529504767|title=The Princess Who Had No Kingdom|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The princess who has no kingdom wanders around in a cart pulled by her horse Pretty. She's very polite, friendly, and kind-hearted, but she feels like something is lacking because she doesn't have a kingdom of her own. Christmas Doll (The other royals she meets treat her nicely enough, but there's always a feeling that she's not quite as good as them because she isn't the princess of anywhere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160421</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRepair Shop Stories)|author=Mij Kelly Amy Sparkes and Louise Nisbet|title=The Happiest Man in the World or the Mouse Who Made ChristmasKatie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=Mouse doesn't like anyone Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and keeps herself nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to herself. Her things are her things and she is too selfish to share them with anyone elsefinal destination. One day, an old man moves in to Mouse She needn's house. He used t have worried though as she went to be the happiest man in the worldhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, but now hewho couldn's sadt have been kinder to her. He's fed up of having given, given, given She even had her own room - all his to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life and never got anything back. He just sits quietly She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and mopes. This makes Mouse miserable, so one day she decides when it came to cheer him up by giving him a clementine.Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340931558</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Bland1916459943|title=The Very Cranky BearSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=MooseMuch as mothers love their babies, Lionthere's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, Zebra he just lies on his blanket and Sheep head into a cave ''wails''. The sea offers to get out help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the rainsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, but little do they know that Bear is fast asleep in therela lay.. When they wake him up, he roars at them, chasing them outside, so they decide to cheer him up somehow. Zebra paints stripes on him, Moose fashions antlers '' And for him and Lion sticks a mane of straw on himmoment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Unsurprisingly, this makes Bear even crankier, so it Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's down going to Sheep to save the day..happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989424</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Lee Wildish140639131X|title=Mum and Dad GlueA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=A young boyPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired's parents are splitting up. He's going through of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the usual emotions that children of divorce go through: worry, feeling unsure, blaming himself, anger, denial, and then trying Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get them to stay togethera reply. His method for this isn Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the usual response though: he looks for glue to stick his mum benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and dad togetherdecided that she would set up something similar herself. Thankfully, he finds some wise Her uniform and kindly advice in lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the processcrossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340957107</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara Vulliamy1776574338|title=The Bear With Sticky Paws WonLeilong't Go To Beds Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's Pearl's bedtimeperfect, but she says she's really busy and isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to sleepschool? There is a problem, though. She just wants Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to play be careful about where he puts his feet and play – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and playtraffic regularly gets snarled up. When the bear with sticky paws rings the doorbell, The school decides that he whisks her away on an amazing adventure - although as you might expect, can't be the bear has a little more energy than Pearl and eventually she does get a little sleepybus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408300648</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Mackey1776574028|title=MikiBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
|rating=4
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|summary=ItI love a good board book! 's cold, dark and icy, and Miki and Penguin are trudging through the snow. But 'Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's Midwinter Eve, when wishes come true. They wish for a treethe child who still enjoys board books (er, lights, someone strong see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to power the lights, have realise that you can ''play'' with words and finally a star that will shine brightly forevermake something quite different from each one. Miki is taken deep below We have the ice to find the star, whilst up top Penguin elephant who dons a tutu - and new friend Polar Bear start to worry about herbecomes a ''balletphant''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034095065X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Margaret Mayo, Geraldine McCaughrean, Rose Impey, Andrew Matthews, Jane Ray, Ian Beck, Angela Barrett, Emma Chichester Clark The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and Alan Snow|title=Magical Princess Stories|rating=4then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Most little girls would love The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a pretty pink book all ''crynoceros'' (think about princessesit!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' OK, wouldnlet't they? s not go there This one has seven retellings of traditional fairy tales accompanied by beautiful illustrations and would make a lovely gift for a birthday or Christmas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140830516X</amazonuk>Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joyce Dunbar and Jimmy Liao1838226834|title=The Monster Who Ate DarknessCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=Jo-Jo is scared that there might be a monster under his bedIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. HeThey's right! The hungry monster doesn't want re there to eat little boys though; he eats darkness. He starts with undo all the darkness in Jo-Jo's roomgood that parents do, and keeps eating and eating until he's eaten all so the darkness in trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the world. With no darkness at allcarnival with his Grandad, strange things begin to happen...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406315540</amazonuk>}}who told him:
{{newreview|author=David Lucas|title=Peanut|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=One day, a flower opens up and a little monkey the colour of a pea pops out. He soon turns brown''It'll be brilliant, and is the size of a nutjust remember, so of course he decides hedon's a peanut called Peanut. Peanut is a nervous little thing: dragonflies are monsters coming to eat him, the rain is the sky falling down, and night is the end t let go of the worldmy hand. Thankfully, he meets Beetle, who sets him straight about a thing or two.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406319589</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Joel StewartB09MYXSRV4|title=Red Ted Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and the Lost ThingsHare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=Red Ted is handed in to 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 lost property officestrong 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, where he meets Crocodile not the ability to use it well. Red Ted is sure Stevie will come He liked to find him, because she loves Red Ted as much as she loves cheesetrick other animals. He then starts was also jealous which was how he came to have be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a nagging doubt - Stevie doesnfair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I't know where he is, so what if she never comes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310379</amazonuk>ll tell you how it came about.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=VariousRob Keeley|title=Let's Play PeekaCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees! (Waybuloo)|rating=34
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|summary=Come 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 land of Nara teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and meet Nok Tokvegetables, De Lilike carrots, Lau Lau and Yojojogrow in the ground. ''Let's Play PeekaJordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!'' accompanies the CBeebies show ''Waybuloo'', " and is aimed everyone laughs at the very youngest childrenpoor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405248173</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=VariousB09FFJF8YS|title=Piplings Come and PlayYou Can't Wear Panties! A Sound Book (WaybulooNo More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=13.5
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|summary=A tie-in with the CBeebies show ''WaybulooFor the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can''. There's nothing really to recommend it as t Wear Panties!" is a standalone book: it's just an introduction to cry (the characters, with annoying (big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and difficult to press) sound-producing buttonspersevering panty pride. Take a look at [[Let's Play Peeka! (Waybuloo) by Various|Let's Play Peeka!]] instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248181</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview
|author=David McKee
|title=The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr Benn
|rating=5
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|summary=Ooh, it's a book of Mr Benn! Excellent! For those of you not already wrapping yourselves in the comforting blanket of nostalgia, I suppose an introduction is warranted. Mr Benn lives at 52 Festive Road, and enjoys visiting his local fancy dress shop. When he tries on a costume and steps through a secret door, he finds himself transported to a new and exciting world.
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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!}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Donaldson Justine Avery and Axel SchefflerNaday Meldova|title=Room On The BroomEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=As the witch flies around the countrysideToots, she drops various objectstrumps, which are picked up farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one by one by animalsgo at the wrong time. As thanksIn class, she offers all the animals a liftsay, but when everyone will there be enough room on hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the broom? This book comes with a fantastic interactive CD to stick in your PCfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330508911</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick SharrattB09BG8V3Q6|title=What's In The Witch's KitchenWho Needs Nappies?Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=The witch's kitchen 'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is magical: if you open the fridge door one way, therelatest release in the ''Everybody Potties!''s something tasty insideseries from Justine Avery. Open it This series of fun picture books aims to take the other way, pain out of potty training children and therereplace it with some fun. It's something scary and gruesomea worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. . Dare you look in all the drawers in this delightful pop-up book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632227X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilaire Belloc and Mini GreyB07GZ81J7C|title=Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By A Lion|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Hilaire Belloc's ''Cautionary Tales For Children'' are rightly lauded as classics. Mini Grey (also [[Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog by Mini Grey|rightly lauded]]), has illustrated one of these fine tales, so that a new generation of children can discover just what happens when you run away from your nurse When Fred the Snake Got Squished and a lion eats you. Pay attention kids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083678</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMended|author=Jan Pienkowski|title=The First ChristmasPeter Cotton
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|summary=The First Christmas isMeet Fred. Well, actually, as you might expect, the story 're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of Jesusmyself: I' birth, Gabriel, Mary, Joseph, shepherds, wise men d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and Herodimmediately became part of the family, presented as to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a picture bookwalk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141500972</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Debi GlioriJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Stormy WeatherEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Can potty training ever be joyous? Itoften isn's bedtime in millions of bedrooms across the worldt, as any parent will tell you. Stories are being readBut really, children are being tucked in, glasses of water why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are being fetchedsmall. Parents (of all animal species) explain what will happen if stormy weather hitsWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, and how they'll keep their children safesay, warm learning about why the sun and cosy.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747599718</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mandy Stanley Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=TwinkleNo, TwinkleNo, Little Star and Other Nursery FavouritesNo!|rating=3.54
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|summary=Every small child should have book (or They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a few) containing traditional nursery rhymes, and every so often newly illustrated collections are publishedBookbag favourite.
''TwinkleNo, Twinkle Little StarNo, No!'' is part of such a new series called ''Time for a Rhyme'', published by Harper Collins and illustrated by Mandy Stanley known for her [[The Fairy Ball (Lettice) by Mandy Stanley|Lettice]] stories and other picture booksbased around the simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315635</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Liz Martinez and Mark Beech|title=The Everyday Witch|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Jimmy has heard rumours of everyday witches living amongst us''No, then one day he spots his mother riding a broomstick with Tiddles the cat in towno, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may. Are his eyes deceiving him? Is his mum really a witch?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597022</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Emily Gravett|title=Spells|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A frog discovers a book, but he wishes That's it was a boat! But, so he tears and folds the pages to turn it into like all the boat. He soon tires of that gamebest picture books, and wishes it was a castle, so he tears and folds it again, as well as cutting out a model this tiny snippet of a beautiful princess. As fun as his new game text is, it lacks a certain reality. Spotting veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it's actually a book of spells, he sets about putting together appears on the torn bits of paper, so he can turn himself into a princeoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230531369</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Butterworth194812467X|title=Trixie The Witch's CatFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Trixie loves being Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a witch's catwalk. 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, but from time to time shethey see a big barn with a sign outside. It's upset by her white pawa farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: witch's cats all the stallholders and customers are supposed to be all blackfarmyard animals. Trixie finally has a brainwave There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and uses magic to turn her white paw blackeven some mice. Excited, but will she really be happy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326794</amazonuk>}}Kirelle and Sam go shopping.
{{newreview|author=Jez Alborough|title=Captain Duck (Duck in the Truck)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Duck runs out of petrol in his truck. Luckily, Goat's house is nearby and Goat uses petrol in his boat! Duck 'borrows' the can of petrol and trots off to fill his truck when the appearance of Frog distracts his attention. Frog and Sheep are ready to go on a boat trip with Goat! As Goat pops back to get something from his shed, Duck jumps in, un-moors the boat and off What will they go, along the river and into the stormy sea: and then the boat runs out of fuel! Will Goat save them? Or will the tide bring them back? And what about the truck that Duck abandoned for his maritime adventurebuy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007302908</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Camilla Reid Sadie and Ailie Busbythe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Lulu's ChristmasMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Lulu is getting ready for Christmas and sheSadie'd like you to help her to decorate the tree. After s mother always said that there are cards to make, streamers to put up and then she helps to ice the cake. After that it's time to go outside and have a little bit of fun and build was a snowmandreamer, but it made her hands cold so mind never on what she came back inside again! should be doing. At bedtime She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she hangs up her stocking and leaves a mince pie for Father Christmas and a carrot for his reindeerloves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. In the morning she has some wonderful presents, but the best one of all is the one you might least expect!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599912</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|author=Margaret Mayo''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|title=The Orchard Book of Magical Tales|rating=4''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=For Sharing |summary=Is it sensible Her imagination was fired. She'd love to build your house in sail the path of oceans on an enormous ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one-tusked elephant? Or to visit where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the house of Baba Yaga Bony-Legs closing bell and the witch if you attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have to? This beautifully produced collection imagined in a world of folk tales featuring magic will give you the answers to these and many other questions. The collection was first published in 1993dolphins, pirates, mermaids and it had become quite difficult to find, so it's great to see it reissuedtreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846165296</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Child1782227741|title=Who Wants To Be A Poodle? I Don'tLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Trixie Twinkle Toes Trot-a-lot Delight hates being a pampered pooch. This primped and preened poodle can think of nothing she'd rather do that get messyOne day, splash in Gold Ted falls into a muddy puddle, and tear about the park like all the other dogs. Mademoiselle Verity Brulee may take good care of Trixie Twinkle Toes, but sheIt's just not in tune with her needs as quite a scruffy mutt in deep puddle and the body of a poodlewater is swirling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Rosen Poor Ted starts to spin around and Adrian Reynolds |title=Bear Flies High|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Michael Rosen builds around and is sucked down a drain on the success side of [[The Bear in the Cave by Michael Rosen and Adrian Reynolds|The Bear street. Finding himself down in the Cave]] with Bear Flies Highsewer, Ted starts to panic. This sequel follows the same poetic formula of the original, with its ask and answer ''I'm a bear on a beach. On a beach? On a beach...OH HELP ME PLEASE'' Everything is as it was first time round, but this time Bear decides he wants to fly like cries and alerts the attention of Reg the seagullssewer rat, so his friends take who plucks him to the amusement park. What follows is a gentle tale of a day out, of being scared and exhilarated by ridesthe dirty water using his cane, and of imagining oneself soaring higher and higher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597979</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Spike Milligan|title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you which might look just have to lovea bit like an old cricket bat. It's the law. Spike Milligan was always fantastic, Reg is a kind soul and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsense, heart, dries Ted off and surreal humour. He speaks to people warms him up with a nice bowl of all ages, and he's just plain lovelybroth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Marshall and Sam ChildsB08R7LXQ9S|title=Kave-Tina RoxRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Kave-Tina Rox lives Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with her Mughis sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, Pug have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and brother Dave-Kave in a cavehas small eyes. Her Mug tries to brush her hair and make her look pretty, They are mean but Kave-Tina's having none of itthey are not stupid. When the Caveman Games come They are careful to town, Dave-Kave doesn't let her join in with any of wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the gamesother kids are around. So, because she's just a girlwhen Remy reacts, but Kave-Tina's having none of itlooks as though he was the instigator. She shows sheAnd then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don's perfectly capable of joining in, and indeed of doing it better than Dave-Kave and his matest believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340957123</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mwenye Hadithi and Adrienne Kennaway1471191303|title=Cross CrocodileThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=There's no water on This is the Great African Plainsstory of Isobel, and Cross Crocodile sits beneath the mango tree, guzzling the sweet fruit and snapping at anoyone a little girl who dares to come near made a big difference. Isobel lived with her. One dayparents in a house - a very cold house, monkey hits on a great idea for how the other animals can get because her parents couldn't afford to put the fruit...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970324</amazonuk>}}heating on:
{{newreview|author=Sam Lloyd|title=Inspector Croc Investigates|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=All is peaceful in Whoops-a-Daisy World, until ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the phone rings at corner of the police stationbedpost. Someone has knocked over Rory Lion's paint, ridden their bike through Fix-It Fox's concrete and stomped all over Farmer Moo's crops. There's only one thing for it: Inspector Croc is going to have to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846169453</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Susannah Corbett The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and Lynne Chapman|title=Dragonthey were happy. Then the day came when they couldn's Dinner|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A hungry dragon heads into t afford the woods to see what he can catch rent for his lunch. He's soon chasing after a bear, fox, cat the house and other animals, desperately trying they had to move to munch themthe far side of the city. When This part of the dragon comes across a mousecity was cold, he soon discovers that the most unlikely animal might just fight backsad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340944226</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John LechnerNick Jones and Si Clark|title=The Clever StickOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=The clever stick has all manner 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 wonderful ideas her bedroom window and things he wants says goodnight to share with the world, but he has no mouthbear statue outside. He wants Every morning she says hello to write poetry, help others and tell roses how lovely they lookBee Bear, but he can't. With a heavy heart (I think sticks have hearts even if they don't have mouths) he drags himself home, and discovers colourful painted bear that he does have a way of expressing himself after alllives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406322237</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|author=Michael Rosen and Bob Graham|title=I'm Number One|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When the girl leaves for school in the morning, her toys do what all toys do during the day: they hang out with each other as friends do. A-One, the drummer boy, is at pains Move on to point out to the other toys that he rules, that he's number one, and that the others are no good, hopeless and useless. He tricks Maddy into giving him her hat, Sally into giving up her rucksack and Sid into giving up his scarf. He's a bit of a meanie is A-One.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140631465X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colin McNaughton and Emma Chichester-Clark|title=Not Last Night But The Night Before|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Not last night but the night before, a large cast of characters came knocking at the door. The three little pigs, Goldilocks, the man in the moon and many others come rushing in, knocking the young boy over and barely paying him any attention. They each shoot straight upstairs and before he has time to think, there's yet another knock at the door, and another, and another. What are the parcels, balloons and cakes they're carrying with them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406304263</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]

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