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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Lum and Sue Hellard1806344777|title=Princesses Are Not Perfect|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Princesses Allie, Mellie Arthur and Libby love baking, gardening and building respectively. The day before the big summer party, they suddenly fancy a change and all swap jobs. With a hundred punnets Land of blueberries to pick, a hundred cupcakes to make, and a hundred chairs to build, the children are going to be awfully disappointed if the princessesNimbostratus: Arthur' new-found interests aren't successful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599297</amazonuk>}} {{newreviews Able Adventures|author=Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner|title=The Terrible PlopRob Keeley|rating=34.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The rabbits are sitting by the lake, munching on cake and carrots. An apple falls in, with a terrible plop, and they scamper off scared. All the other animals join in the stampede and get as far away as they can from the terrible plop. Bear is far too big and grumpy to be scared, so he gets the littlest rabbit to show him just where the scariness lies...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405251379</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jackie French and Bruce Whatley |title=Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip|rating=4
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|summary=The author-illustrator partnership Arthur dreams of adventures. He looks out of his window each day and thinks of all the escapades he could have, the places he could go and the things he could see. His favourite day is Saturday because that created 's the 'Diary day his friend Maxine - she of a Wombat', [[Pete the Sheep by Jackie French|Pete the Sheep]] booming laugh and 'Josephine Wants silver bangles - comes to Dance' bring all their Aussie characters together visit. Maxine is a great believer in a Christmas book with a Antipodean twistthe power of imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007324278</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham OakleyAdam Stower|title=The Church MouseMurray and Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Arthur the church mouse lives in peace with Sampson the meek church Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, but he gets lonely from time one who is able to timesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. He hits on But he's a great idea: hebad magician'll invite all 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 other mice regular back garden, but into a world of the town to come frightening adventure and live with whiffs. This time round it drops them. The parson agreesinto a Viking land, as long as they agree to do where a few odd jobs around the place. Then troll hunter is expected – well, one daymuch bigger than Murray was, to be honest, a burglar breaks in but he's turned up and therehe's no-one around ll have to stop him but Arthur, Sampson and the mice...do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1840116102</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janet Charters and Michael Foreman1732898766|title=The GeneralAdventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=General Jodhpur keeps his soldiers busy, polishing When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their boots and practising shootinglives in the Forest of Fine Repute. He wants to become Their greatest fear has come about: the most famous general in the whole worldSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. One day, he He's thrown off right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his horsenostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and discovers the joys when a ladder of lying in the grassmoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. On his walk home, he gets a chance They climbed up to smell the flowersTree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and soon sets about putting his soldiers to more peaceful activitiesGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763648752</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Jackson and Keith GravesB0CC9W7GLR|title=Desert Rose|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Desert Rose is mucking out the pig stalls, when she stumbles across a giant gold nugget. She decides to buy the fattest hog in Texas, so she can win first prize at On the state fair - a gal's gotta have a dream. However, she gets one highfalutin hog who won't do as it's told, so she ropes in all the other inhabitants of Laredo to help her out, and win the prize.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802198</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeach: The Winter Visitor|author=Jane Ray|title=Snow WhiteChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=3.5
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|summary=Jane Ray has taken 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 classic fairy tale shoreline. On top of Snow Whitethe ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the dwarves bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the wicked queenice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and created beautiful three-dimensional tableauxthen another. It's He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a much-loved story that everyone is familiar with, good meal and this is a great opportunity somewhere to rediscover a classic in an interesting new waysleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311839</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Van Dusen1913839656|title=The Circus ShipLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=When a circus ship sinks off Todd was excited about spending the coast of Maineweekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the animals escape and make their home in a nearby townbest beetle juice. They soon enchant the locals, who in turn decide to protect the animals from the greedy circus-owner. Very loosely based on the sinking He packed two pairs of the ''Royal Tar'' in 1836, ''The Circus Ship'' is a fun picture book that animal-lovers will enjoy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>076363090X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Isadora dungarees and Clement Clarke Moore|title=The Night Before Christmas|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Everyone knows his favourite hat and loves Clement Clarke Moore's poem ''A Visit From St Nicholas''then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Even if you don't go She had promised to take him to the whole hog, gathering the family round by Friday Night Club at the log fire, local community centre and reading it together, its opening line of '''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature Todd was stirring, not even a mousepleased about this as he wanted to make new friends...'' fills you with a warm glow. You can practically smell the mulled wine and hear the snores of Auntie Gertrude during the Queen's Speech. It's an absolute classic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399254080</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Sapp|title=Christmas Is...|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Christmas is looming and thus the market for picture books featuring santas At home, presents his only friend was his mum and Christmas treeshe wondered why that could be. It's hard to come up with anything new here, and Grandma thought that it's rather not the point - is it? Christmas is, after all, about annually repeated celebration of traditional rituals that add delight and nourishment to the spiritual, emotional and social fabric of lifemight be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007303750</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Tomlinson and Paul Howard1529504775|title=The Penguin Who Wanted To Find OutToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Otto Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the penguin lives on his father's feet at park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the bottom side of the world. He's an inquisitive little thing and wants to know why they havenpark but David couldn't fallen off the world. His dad explains that they won- he't Because I say sod been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. Otto One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and his friend Leo gradually expand their horizons was happy to use the coins from their fathers' feet - they meet other penguin chicksher money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, get David learned to know their aunts who watch them when their fathers are awaystand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and eventually grow feathers so they're big enough rusted, to toboggan on their bellies and swim in the seaRepair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140523041X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick O'Brien1529504767|title=You Are The First Kid On MarsChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summaryauthor=It is a sci-fi future of no danger whatsoever, with no technological breakdown, and no fatal meteor strike, but that of course is only to be expected for this market. I say it more to highlight how well the book has been illustrated. Digital airbrush techniques and more have taken the antiseptic sheen off the whole experience, but have still allowed for a great detail in the machinery, Amy Sparkes and also a lovely warmth in the face of the lad we're empathising with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399246347</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Abbott Nez |title=Cromwell Dixon's Sky-CycleKatie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=Meet Cromwell DixonSusan 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. HeShe needn's a real tinkerert have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, forever in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusualwho couldn't have been kinder to her. Luckily She even had her own room - although his long-suffering mother may disagree all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with that word - he's around at the birth of powered flightbaking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Helmore and Karen Wall1916459943|title=Oh No, Monster Tomato!Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=Marvin is entering the Great Grislygust GrowMuch 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 -Offgo to sleep: instead, but he just like him, lies on his tomatoes arenblanket and 't growing very big'wails''. The sea offers to help. He takes It rocks Baby gently and the only sensible course waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of action: he sings his tomatoes gentle wavelets falling onto a songsandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The results are spectacularmermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay. Victory is surely within ..'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his graspeyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524741X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain Smyth and Michael Terry140639131X|title=The Wide-Mouthed FrogA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Do you know Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the joke Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the wide-mouthed frog? You must have heard it. Itproblem but didn's t even get a classicreply. It Philippa wasn's one that you really need t a bird to tell in person, with your fingers pulling your mouth wide open, but to hopefully spark your memory, sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the wide-mouthed frog introduces himself to a number benefits of animals until he finally comes across a crocodile who eats wide-mouthed frogs, and the frog does his best to disguise who he is whilst saying ''Ooh, you don't see many of those round here, do you?'' I'm hardly doing it justice, but it's very cheesy lollipop lady at the school crossing and funny. Anyway, this is a book of decided that jokeshe would set up something similar herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408804964</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ursula Jones Her uniform and Sarah Gibb|title=The Princess Who Had No Kingdom|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The princess who has no kingdom wanders around in lollipop stick were both a cart pulled by her horse Prettylittle amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. She's very polite, friendly, All the animals used the crossing and kind-hearted, but she feels like something is lacking because she doesn't have a kingdom of her own. The other royals she meets treat her nicely enough, but there's always Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a feeling that she's not quite as good as them because she isn't the princess of anywheresafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160421</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mij Kelly and Louise Nisbet1776574338|title=The Happiest Man in the World or the Mouse Who Made ChristmasLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=Mouse doesnEvery 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 like anyone and keeps herself even need to herself. Her things are her things go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and she is too selfish to share them with anyone elseslide down his neck. One day It's perfect, an old man moves in isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to Mouseschool? There is a problem, though. Leilong isn's house. He used to be the happiest man t happy in the world, but now city: he's sad. He's fed up of always having given, given, given all to be careful about where he puts his life feet and never got anything back. He just sits quietly – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and mopestraffic regularly gets snarled up. This makes Mouse miserable, so one day she The school decides to cheer him up by giving him a clementine..that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340931558</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Bland1776574028|title=The Very Cranky BearBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=Moose, Lion, Zebra and Sheep head into I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a cave to get out of niche market: it's for the rainchild who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but little do they know has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that Bear is fast asleep in thereyou can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. When they wake him up, he roars at them, chasing them outside, so they decide to cheer him up somehow We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. Zebra paints stripes on him, Moose fashions antlers for him The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and Lion sticks then dries off with a mane of straw on himhair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. Unsurprisingly, this makes Bear even crankier, so The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a 's down to Sheep to save the day'sm.......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989424</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Lee Wildish1838226834|title=Mum and Dad GlueCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy's parents are splitting up. He's was going through to the usual emotions that children of divorce go throughcarnival with his Grandad, who told him: worry ''It'll be brilliant, feeling unsurejust remember, blaming himself, anger, denial, and then trying to get them to stay together. His method for this isndon't the usual response though: he looks for glue to stick his mum and dad togetherlet go of my hand. Thankfully, he finds some wise and kindly advice in the process.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340957107</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara VulliamyB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Bear With Sticky Paws Won't Go To BedReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=It's PearlWhen 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 's bedtime, but she says she's really busy and isn't going ' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to sleepuse it well. She just wants He liked to play and play and playtrick other animals. When the bear He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with sticky paws rings the doorbell, he whisks her away on an amazing adventure - although as you Turtle. You might expect, the bear has think that's not a little more energy than Pearl fair contest but wait and eventually she does get a little sleepysee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408300648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen MackeyRob Keeley|title=MikiCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4
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|summary=It's cold Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, dark broccoli, cabbage and icyaubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and Miki and Penguin are trudging through the snowhow nice to eat. But it's Midwinter EveOne day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, when wishes come truewho tells her that carrots grow on trees. They wish for a tree, lightsInfuriated, someone strong to power Lily checks with the lightsteacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and finally a star that will shine brightly forevervegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Miki is taken deep below the ice Jordan says, "I did try to find the startell her, whilst up top Penguin Miss!" and new friend Polar Bear start to worry about hereveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034095065X</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Mayo, Geraldine McCaughrean, Rose Impey, Andrew Matthews, Jane Ray, Ian Beck, Angela Barrett, Emma Chichester Clark and Alan SnowB09FFJF8YS|title=Magical Princess Stories|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Most little girls would love a pretty pink book all about princesses, wouldnYou Can't they? 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>}} {{newreviewWear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Joyce Dunbar Justine Avery and Jimmy Liao|title=The Monster Who Ate DarknessKate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
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|summary=Jo-Jo is scared that there might be a monster under his bed. He's right! The hungry monster doesn't want to eat little boys though; he eats darkness. He starts with all For the big, grownup girls out there, the darkness potty masters in Jo-Jo's roomtraining, and keeps eating and eating until he"You Can's eaten all t Wear Panties!" is a cry (the darkness in the worldbig-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. With no darkness at all, strange things begin to happen...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406315540</amazonuk>}}''
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=Michael Rosen Justine Avery and Joel StewartNaday Meldova|title=Red Ted and the Lost ThingsEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Red Ted is handed in to a lost property officeToots, trumps, where he meets Crocodilefarts. Red Ted is sure Stevie will come to Whatever your word for them, find him, because she loves Red Ted as much as she loves cheese. He then starts to have us a nagging doubt - Stevie child that doesn't know where he find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is, so what . But horribly embarrassing if she never comes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310379</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Various|title=Let's Play Peeka! (Waybuloo)|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Come to you let one go at the land of Nara and meet Nok Tokwrong time. In class, De Lisay, Lau Lau when everyone will hear it and Yojojoeveryone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her 'Let's Play PeekaEverybody Potties!'' accompanies the CBeebies show ''Waybuloo'', series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and is aimed at the very youngest children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248173</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Various|title=Piplings Come gently and Play! A Sound Book (Waybuloo)|rating=1.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A tie-in calmly, with the CBeebies show ''Waybuloo''familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. There's nothing really to recommend Everybody does it as a standalone book: it's just an introduction to the characters, with annoying (and difficult to press) sound-producing buttons. Take a look at [[Let's Play Peeka! (Waybuloo) by Various|LetEverybody Toots''s Play Peeka!]] instead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405248181</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David McKeeB09BG8V3Q6|title=The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr Benn|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Ooh, it's a book of Mr BennWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! Excellent(Everybody Potties! 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034099715X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview)|author=Julia Donaldson Justine Avery and Axel Scheffler|title=Room On The Broom|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=As the witch flies around the countryside, she drops various objects, which are picked up one by one by animals. As thanks, she offers all the animals a lift, but will there be enough room on the broom? This book comes with a fantastic interactive CD to stick in your PC.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330508911</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Sharratt|title=What's In The Witch's Kitchen?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, there's something tasty inside. Open it the other way, and there's something scary and gruesome. Dare you look latest release in all the drawers in this delightful pop-up book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632227X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hilaire Belloc and Mini Grey|title=Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By A Lion|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Hilaire Belloc's 'Everybody Potties!'Cautionary Tales For Children'' are rightly lauded as classicsseries from Justine Avery. Mini Grey (also [[Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog by Mini Grey|rightly lauded]]), has illustrated one This series of these fine tales, so that a new generation fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children can discover just what happens when you run away from your nurse and replace it with some fun. It's a lion eats worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. Pay attention kids .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083678</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jan PienkowskiB07GZ81J7C|title=The First ChristmasWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter 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>}}
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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.
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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>}}
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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:
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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}}