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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Where's Tim's Ted? It's Time for Bed!Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Ian Whybrow Maureen Duffy and Russell AytoAnita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Tim is visiting Grandad and Granny Red Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on the farmwhat she should be doing. It’s bed time, but Tim can’t find Ted. He makes them look for him, but they don’t really bother. Just a perfunctory peek behind She lives by the sofa River Thames at Greenwich and, when that doesn’t unearth the teddy, Tim is packed off to bed with the promise that they’ll look again in the morning. But it’s hard to sleep without your toy, isn’t it? So, deep in the middle of the night, Tim creeps out of bed she loves to go searching once more. He’s not alone, though. Grandad and Granny Red might be fast asleep but others on the farm are awake, and like the Pied Piper, Tim soon finds himself with quite a followingspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007509561</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Esiri Poem|title=Changing Guard at Buckingham PalaceA Poem for Every Day of the Year|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardAllie Esiri|rating=54|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=Do you remember that time when they were changing guard at Buckingham PalaceFor those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a fun and Christopher Robin went down with Alice? Or how about that Christmas when King John (not easy commitment to take on. Reading a good man) asked for lots of things but only really wanted poem a bigday does not take long, mere minutes, Indiaand with over three-rubber ball? These were the hundred poems of my childhood, so much so in here there's bound to be a poem that when this new compilation arrived I remembered some of them by heart even though it must have been a good 20 years since I leafed through 'Now We Are Six' and 'When We Were Very Young'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268638</amazonuk>speaks to each reader directly.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Stevenson_Garden|title=Trumpety TrumpA Child's Garden of Verses|author=Steve Smallman and Adria MeserveRobert Louis Stevenson|rating=52|genre=For SharingAnthologies|summary=Two subjects guaranteed Robert Louis Stevenson was a very versatile writer; he delved deep into the human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' but he did not restrict himself to have any nursery age child in stitches are bums and farts. This book has plenty representations of both, along with some other very rude behaviour which will have children begging to hear this again the gothic and againthe persecuted. Although the book reads like a non stop riot of rude and raucous behaviour, it does teach He also wrote brilliant children about friendship 's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' and manners as well. Adults will appreciate the moral to the story''Kidnapped'', but children will be so busy laughing, they'll hardly notice that they are learning at the same timeagain, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121812</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Taylor and Ross CollinsDonaldson_Treasury|title=Robot Rumpus|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=My sons tore open the parcel with ''Robot Rumpus'' and were already reading it themselves before I could even get the tape from the rest of the box, so they had one up on me when we settled down to read it later as a family. We began looking through the robot models on the inside of the front A Treasury of cover, and as I mentioned which ones I wish we could have, the boys were already laughing with a ''just'' ''wait'' ''and'' ''see'' look on their faces.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396280</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSongs|author=Tor Freeman|title=The Toucan Brothers|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I hate to mention illustrations before mentioning the story with a children's book, but the illustrations are clearly the first thing you will notice with the book. My children, drawn by the illustrations, had this pulled out of the box of books it came in and were sitting down reading it before I could even sort through the rest. As soon as I saw this, I thought of [[:Category:Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]]. The illustrations are highly reminiscent of Scarry's work, but if anything these are bolder, brighter and busier. If you have a child who is a visual learner, or who needs plenty of visual cues when reading, this book is definitely one you want to take a closer look at. The expressions on the characters faces are perfect and each page literally seems to come to life with so many activities going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447218639</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton|title=Shifty McGifty Julia Donaldson and Slippery SamAxel Scheffler|rating=54
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are two dogs with half baked idea for what thy think will be Some people have all the perfect crime - despite their previous failures. The dogs prepare a wonderful feast to lure their intended victims outskills, making cupcakesnot only is Julia Donaldson one of the most successful children's authors, piesbut she can also carry a tune. For the past few years, buns she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and every sort plays them during open readings, or releases them as part of baked treat you can imaginea songbook. They have a wonderful For the first time baking, but all the while they are planning to rob all A Treasury of their guests when the party is in full swing. The feast is a huge success, but the robbery is another disaster. A small act Songs brings together several of kindness and a heart felt apology results her books in forgiveness, one omnibus and it also has a wonderful idea for a new careerCD too of Donaldson singing the songs. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert L Forbes and Ronald SearleWoollard_Kipling|title=Beast Friends Forever!Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories|author=Elli Woollard and Marta Altes|rating=34.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=We're never far away from springNow, whatever our age, when there are probably a few books that we have all encountered at some point in our childhoods. They have stood the thoughts test of the whole animal kingdom turn time to such an extent that they have become a piece of our culture common to love - or at leastso many of us, one aspect and are known throughout the world. One of it wethem is by Rudyard Kipling, who brought a child'd better not mention s sense of wonder and his own Victorian absurdist set of explanations to play in a book for dozen examples of warm whimsy. In shrugging off evolution he got to convey how the very young such as this rhino skin is. Skunks need to smell niceso ill-fitting and rumpled, how the whale learnt he cannot eat humans, elephants and crickets need to make how the right noises to attract elephant got such a matething as his trunk. In doing so he entertained his young daughter, while others can just celebrate their being together not knowing she would die as a child long before he produced a book-length collection – and way before he saw something into print that has lasted ever since. Just in different wayscase these tales are not for your young audience yet (and it won't be long, whether they be real love birds or grizzly bears. The whole wildlife love life is heretrust me), you can start them in a very chaste early with this lovely and harmless mannerbright adaptation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1590208080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger StevensHarris_Rhyming|title=What Rhymes With Sneeze?I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups|author=Chris Harris and Lane Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Poems often In the sniffy world of literary poetry, people seem to lose their appeal as we get older. They become tricky things that must be interpreted able to knock together a dozen verses and understood get an audience of twenty people to buy a pamphlet, and written about they call themselves published authors. You get a similar thing at times with poetry for the young – most poetry books, after all, have a lot more blank space in essays rather them than the instantly enjoyable experiences routine volumes, and people compile their best arrays of very few words in between two covers and bingo, they are when have a book, and twenty minutes later bingo, you're a childve read it. This book contains That's most certainly not the case here, for this is crammed with what has to be considered a wide variety major outpouring of poemswit and rhyme. And whatever age you are, written by the author but also some written by other poetsand whatever experience with verse you may have, and the author uses them this will not seem to show children about the different sorts you like someone's first book of poetry, various rhyme schemes and how to go about writing your own poems too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408155761</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tariq Kurd and Laura RobertsonGoss_600|title=The Quest In Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Vest Collection of Time Lord Verse (Gordon the GoblinDr Who)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Gordon the Goblin is more than a little fed up because he is so small and not big and tough like all of the other goblins. They are all fearless hunters and go off on exciting adventures whilst Gordon is left behind. He decides that there is nothing else for it but to set out on his very own quest even though he feels very nervous at the thought of it. He approaches the chief goblin who laughs at him, before deciding to send him off to capture a dragon – not for one moment thinking that Gordon will succeed. It does look like an impossible feat especially as Gordon does lack strength and muscles. Maybe though, he will be able to use his brains and charm rather than relying on brute force. Will Gordon be able to find a dragon and actually persuade him that he wants to be captured and what will happen if he does? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907762051</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil Griffiths James Goss and Janette Louden|title=Hats Off!Russell T Davies
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary='Hats Off!' is a wonderfully entertaining book that is written entirely in rhymeConsider the Doctor. It starts by asking if the reader has ever thought about Just how many hats they might birthday and Christmas gifts must he have been bought to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and whether a hat actually looks good on their head or notthat of some of his friends and enemies. The authorAs luck would have it, he has space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, Neil Griffithsso my advice to him – sorry, then goes on her – would be to pop along to suggest that there are: his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you''Hats too bigre working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, too tight''<br>''and too smallthinking perhaps just one gift season ahead,''<br>''Hats that just shouldn't''<br>''be worn at all!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905434839</amazonuk>well my advice is pretty much the same.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross0956503527|title=Sticky EndsThere's A Lion In My Bathroom|author=Giles Paley-Phillips
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=This is a book collection of funny rhymes and verses nonsense poetry takes in which rather disgusting all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and gruesome things happen from failed cowboys to the characters involved, a girl with each one getting their comeuppancesprings for feet. Tony Ross obviously had a wonderful time illustrating the book with everything from nosesIt's all very silly, all very nonsensical, dripping with blood as they're pinched off right through and good fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to Father Christmas using the toilet[http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392501</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192731831|title=See You Later, Escalator
|author=John Foster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Always a sucker for a good poetry anthology here at Bookbag, we've enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. ''See You Later, Escalator'' continues in the same vein, with poems from the likes of Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen, Michelle Magorian and Brian Patten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731831</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Paley-Phillips1849392021|title=There's A Lion An Alien In My Bathroom|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and from failed cowboys to a girl with springs for feet. It's all very silly, all very nonsensical, and good fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956503527</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Classroom
|author=Gervase Phinn
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a collection of school-based poems, and poems aimed at school-age children. Taking in all forms, from limericks and cautionary verse, to acrostics and haiku, it offers a broad overview of poetry. With themes including school, families, seasons, Bonfire Night, Nativity plays and going to the dentist, there's something to appeal to every child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392021</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1408304589|title=The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby
|author=Penny Dann
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=All your favourite nursery rhymes are here, from Hickory Dickory Dock, through Little Bo Peep and Three Blind Mice, to Sing A Song Of Sixpence. With over sixty nursery rhymes to choose from, all the big names are presented in a beautiful compendium that you'll treasure for years.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0141324511|title=Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things
|author=Michael Rosen
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=When he was little, Michael Rosen's dad remembered all the bad things he'd done and reminded him of them when appropriate, so Michael imagined he'd written them all down in a Big Book of Bad Things. Here he presents the eponymous poem, as well as many many other tales of childhood, from the horrors of being a second late to school, to making a raft, to going to a café. Some bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, some touching, some light-hearted, all wonderful.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=033051086X|title=The World At Our Feet
|author=Paul Cookson
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=With the World Cup just around the corner, football is on everyone's lips. Paul Cookson, Poet in Residence at the [http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/ National Football Museum], has compiled the best football poems for young children.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192729934|title=Whizz Bang Orang-Utan
|author=John Foster
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Subtitled ''rhymes for the very young'', you know what you're getting with ''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. It's a poetry anthology, with sweet poems about kids, what they get up to, and of course whizzing and banging orang-utans.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0230745865|title=In My Sky at Twilight
|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)
|rating=4
|genre=TeensChildren's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Off the back of the success of Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the most unusual books to come out of this craze as it is a collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the series.
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