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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Inga Moore1806344777|title=Six Dinner Sid - A Highland Adventure|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sid Arthur and the cat has six owners in six different houses, and he munches his way through six dinners a day. This big olLand of Nimbostratus: Arthur' greedyguts has a great life, but then one day his owners all decide they want to go on holiday. They consider putting him in a cattery, but they have strange rules like one meal per cat, not six. They give it some thought, and eventually decide to all go on holiday together, taking Sid with them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988940</amazonuk>}} {{newreviews Able Adventures|author=Michael Foreman|title=Why The Animals Came To TownRob Keeley|rating=34.5
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|summary=A young boy Arthur dreams of adventures. He looks out of his bedroom window each day and sees a parade thinks of animals walking up his streetall the escapades he could have, the places he could go and the things he could see. TheyHis favourite day is Saturday because that've come to show him s the day his friend Maxine - she of the deserts booming laugh and ice caps, silver bangles - comes to warn him of visit. Maxine is a great believer in the importance power of taking care of Earth. Without the animals, he realises the world would be a much more desolate placeimagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406318019</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WormellAdam Stower|title=One Smart Fish|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Many, many, many years ago, the ocean was full of amazing fish. The most amazing fish was a boring-looking silver fish, who was smarter than all the others. He played chess (against himself), drew pictures and performed plays. One day, he decided to see what life was like on land, so he invented feet and went for a walk. Yep, you've guessed it: it's a picture book about evolution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083546</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean Reidy Murray and Genevieve Leloup|title=Too Purply!Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=It's time for schoolMurray is supposed to be a humble, but the young girl tidy and her tortoise don't want friendly cat, one who is able to wear any sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of their clothesthe two. They But he's a bad magician're too purplys cat, too ticklyso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, too puckeryand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, too pricklynot into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and so on. You get the idea. Adjectives abound in this fun getting dressed bookwhiffs. 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803151</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Isadora1732898766|title=The Twelve Dancing Princesses|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bookbag recently loved Rachel Isadora's take on [[The Night Before Christmas by Rachel Isadora Adventures of Birpus and Clement Clarke Moore|The Night Before Christmas]], which put the classic Christmas poem in an African setting. This time round, she has turned her eye to the Grimms' ''Bulbus: Book One: The Twelve Dancing Princesses''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0142414506</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSour Milk Dragon|author=Angela McAllister Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Alex T Smith|title=My Mum Has X-Ray VisionIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Milo suspects his mum When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has x-ray visioncome about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. She can see through the ceiling downstairs when he He's jumping on her bedright behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. She can see through the outside wall when he (Please don't try this at home: it won's making potions in the garden in her saucepanst end well. Is she really ) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a superhero? Milo puts her ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the test..Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105388</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Yolen and Mark TeagueB0CC9W7GLR|title=How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=[[How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen|How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?]] was a witty and visually creative tale of Very Bad Bedtime Behaviour for modern children enamoured of dinosaurs. 'How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?' continues On the formula, this time with table manners.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007216092</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeach: The Winter Visitor|author=Kate Lum Chris Green and Sue Hellard|title=Princesses Are Not PerfectJenny Fionda|rating=3.5
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|summary=Princesses AllieKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, Mellie and Libby love bakingbored but warm, gardening or frozen cold and building respectivelysand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. The day before On top of the big summer party, they suddenly fancy ice was a change and all swap jobspolar bear. With a hundred punnets of blueberries to pick, a hundred cupcakes to make As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a hundred chairs to buildrun for it, but Teal knew that the children are going bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be awfully disappointed if taken home on the princesses' new-found interests aren't successfulbus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599297</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner1913839656|title=The Terrible PlopLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=The rabbits are sitting by Todd was excited about spending the lakeweekend with his grandmother, munching on cake not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and carrots. An apple falls in, with a terrible plop, his favourite hat and they scamper off scaredthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. All She had promised to take him to the other animals join in Friday Night Club at the stampede local community centre and get Todd was pleased about this as far away as they can from the terrible plophe wanted to make new friends. Bear is far too big At home, his only friend was his mum and grumpy to he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be scared, so because he gets the littlest rabbit to show him just where the scariness lies..looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405251379</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie French and Bruce Whatley 1529504775|title=Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The author-illustrator partnership that created the 'Diary of a Wombat', [[Pete the Sheep by Jackie French|Pete the Sheep]] and 'Josephine Wants to Dance' bring all their Aussie characters together in a Christmas book with a Antipodean twist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007324278</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Graham Oakley|title=The Church MouseAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Arthur Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the church mouse lives in peace with Sampson side of the meek church cat, park but David couldn't - he gets lonely from time to time'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. He hits on One day Elsie spotted a great idea: he'll invite all bus in the other mice of toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the town coins from her money box to come and live with thempay for it as cash was tight at home. The parson agrees Gradually, as long as they agree David learned to do a few odd jobs around stand up, use the placebus for support, and walk behind it. Then one day Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, a burglar breaks in now damaged and there's no-one around rusted, to stop him but Arthurthe Repair Shop, Sampson and hoping that the mice..experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1840116102</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janet Charters and Michael Foreman1529504767|title=The General|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=General Jodhpur keeps his soldiers busy, polishing their boots and practising shooting. He wants to become the most famous general in the whole world. One day, he's thrown off his horse, and discovers the joys of lying in the grass. On his walk home, he gets a chance to smell the flowers, and soon sets about putting his soldiers to more peaceful activities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763648752</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alison Jackson and Keith Graves|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 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>}} {{newreviewChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Jane Ray|title=Snow White|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Jane Ray has taken the classic fairy tale of Snow White, the dwarves and the wicked queen, and created beautiful three-dimensional tableaux. It's a much-loved story that everyone is familiar with, Amy Sparkes and this is a great opportunity to rediscover a classic in an interesting new way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311839</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Van Dusen|title=The Circus ShipKatie Hickey|rating=3.5
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|summary=When a circus ship sinks off Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the coast home of MaineMr and Mrs Russell, the animals escape who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and make their home in a nearby townbegan to enjoy her life. They soon enchant She'd help Mrs Russell with the locals, who in turn decide baking and when it came to protect Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the animals from decorations on the greedy circus-ownerChristmas tree. Very loosely based on the sinking of The best surprise happened the ''Royal Tar'' in 1836, ''The Circus Ship'' is a fun picture book that animal-lovers will enjoyfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>076363090X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Isadora and Clement Clarke Moore1916459943|title=The Night Before ChristmasSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=Everyone knows and loves Clement Clarke MooreMuch as mothers love their babies, there's poem something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can'A Visit From St Nicholas''. Even if you dont - or won't - go the whole hog, gathering the family round by the log fireto sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and reading it together, its opening line of ''wails''Twas . The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the night before Christmaswaves sing ''hush, when all through hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the housesound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, not a creature was stirring, not even a mousela lay...'' fills you with And for a warm glowmoment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. You can practically smell the mulled wine Then a seagull '''shouts''' and hear the snores of Auntie Gertrude during the Queen's Speech. Itwe know exactly what's an absolute classicgoing to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399254080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Sapp140639131X|title=Christmas Is...|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Christmas is looming and thus the market A Practical Present for picture books featuring santas, presents and Christmas trees. It's hard to come up with anything new here, and 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 life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007303750</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPhilippa Pheasant|author=Jill Tomlinson and Paul Howard|title=The Penguin Who Wanted To Find OutBriony May Smith
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|summary=Otto the penguin lives on his fatherPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired''s feet at the bottom of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the worldOld Oak Road. He's an inquisitive little thing and wants She wrote to know why they haventhe mayor about the problem but didn't fallen off the worldeven get a reply. His dad explains that they won Philippa wasn't Because I say so. Otto and his friend Leo gradually expand their horizons from their fathers' feet - they meet other penguin chicks, get a bird to know their aunts who watch them sit back on her tail feathers when their fathers are away, and eventually grow feathers so they're big enough to toboggan on their bellies and swim in there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140523041X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patrick O'Brien|title=You Are The First Kid On Mars|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It is a sci-fi future benefits of no danger whatsoever, with no technological breakdown, the lollipop lady at the school crossing and no fatal meteor strike, but decided that of course is only to be expected for this marketshe would set up something similar herself. I say it more Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to highlight how well start with but the book has been illustratedbenefits were obvious. Digital airbrush techniques and more have taken All the antiseptic sheen off the whole experience, but have still allowed for a great detail in animals used the machinery, crossing and also Hedgehog was even trained up to provide 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-Cycle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Cromwell Dixon. He's a real tinkerer, forever in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusualsafe path overnight. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with that word - he's around at the birth of powered flight. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Helmore and Karen Wall1776574338|title=Oh No, Monster TomatoLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=Marvin is entering Every morning Leilong, the Great Grislygust Grow-Off, but just like himbrontosaurus school bus, makes his tomatoes aren't growing very big. He takes way through the only sensible course of action: city, picking up children as he sings his tomatoes a songgoes. The results are spectacular. Victory is surely within his grasp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524741X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Iain Smyth and Michael Terry|title=The Wide-Mouthed Frog|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Do you know Children who live at the joke about top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the wide-mouthed frog? You must have heard itwindow and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a classicproblem, though. It Leilong isn's one that you really need to tell t happy in person, with your fingers pulling your mouth wide open, but to hopefully spark your memory, the wide-mouthed frog introduces himself city: he's always having to a number of animals until be careful about where he finally comes across a crocodile who eats wide-mouthed frogs, puts his feet and the frog does his best to disguise who – because 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 longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and funnytraffic regularly gets snarled up. Anyway, this is a book of The school decides that jokehe can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408804964</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ursula Jones and Sarah Gibb1776574028|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. 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>}} {{newreviewBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Mij Kelly and Louise Nisbet|title=The Happiest Man in the World or the Mouse Who Made ChristmasDavid Elliott
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|summary=Mouse doesnI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee''t like anyone and keeps herself to herself. Her things are her things and she is too selfish to share them with anyone else. One day, an old man moves in to Mouseaimed at quite a niche market: it's house. He used to be the happiest man in for the worldchild who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but now hehas mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can 's sad'play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. He We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a 's fed up of having given, given, given all his life 'balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and never got anything backthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. He just The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits quietly and mopeson his potty changes into a ''sm.... This makes Mouse miserable, so one day she decides to cheer him up by giving him a clementine...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340931558</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Bland1838226834|title=The Very Cranky BearCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=Moose, Lion, Zebra and Sheep head into a cave It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to get out of undo all the rain, but little good that parents do they know that Bear is fast asleep in there. When they wake him up, he roars at them, chasing them outside, so they decide the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to cheer him up somehow. Zebra paints stripes on himthe carnival with his Grandad, Moose fashions antlers for who told him and Lion sticks a mane of straw on him. Unsurprisingly, this makes Bear even crankier, so it's down to Sheep to save the day...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989424</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, 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>}}
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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}}