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|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=17765728580008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=How Do You Make a Baby?The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Anna Fiske Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Don Bartlett Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (translatorPlease don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda

|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies Kit and Teal were made. My mother just beginning to wonder whether it was deeply embarrassed better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and told me that she'd get me building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a book about itlarge slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. A couple On top of days later I the ice was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the basicssand, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. and I Kit was told all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that it wouldn't the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be discussed any further as it taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Let''wasn't something which nice people talked s Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about''this as he wanted to make new friends. I ''knew'' moreAt home, but his only friend was little ''wiser''his mum and he wondered why that could be. Thankfully, times have changedGrandma thought that it might be because he looked different.

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Daria Yudina1529504775|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh The Toy Bus (Living BookThe Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=This Living Book is on a missionElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. What's Elsie would race the buses along the side of the mission? To make you laugh! I canpark but David couldn't think of many better missions than that, can you? Let- he's see how d been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it doesas cash was tight at home... .... well Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it opens up with a terrible joke. A groany joke Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, an eye-roll joke. The joke isn't very funny but it is funny to see how enthusiastic now damaged and how generously this book wants rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make you laugh - ''Oh, I'm terrible at jokes. Some books are it so good at them. I always wanted to help someone laughthat her grandchildren could play with it.'' |isbn= 194812453X

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Daria Yudina1529504767|title=Baby Trolls Get a Bad Rap The Christmas Doll (Underrated Babies Book 1The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45

|summary= Horatio, Saul Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and Grizelda are three baby trolls who are fed up that everyone forgets nervous about baby trollshow she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. They are ignored in books She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and TV shows and films in favour of their very scary grown upsMrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. Our three heroes want equal rights for baby trolls She even had her own room - all to herself. They want Gradually she relaxed and began to be seen enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and heard and they've started a petition about when it that they want you came to signChristmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. But how should they go about it? |isbn= B07XGN4LGYThe best surprise happened the following morning.}}

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Daria Yudina1916459943|title=This Book Is Alive! (Living Book)Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb

|summary= Books Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He'wants so tired but he can't - or won' you t - go to read them! Theysleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and 're not intimidating or standoffish or particular about readers'wails''. The sea offers to help. Books It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''wanthush, hush'' to be read. This is Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the key message sound perfectly. The mermaids join in Justine Avery- ''s latest offeringla lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull ''This Book Is Alive!'shouts'''. By anthropomorphising the relationship between book and young reader, shewe know exactly what's sending an invitation going to all - pick me up, read me, be my friend, we can go on a journey togetherhappen next. It's a great message, don't you think?|isbn= 1948124416}}

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Ema Tepic 140639131X|title=I Dreamed YouA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=It is always a pleasure to review a new book by Justine Avery and Philippa Pheasant was ''I Dreamed Youtired'' carries on of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the tradition beautifullyOld Oak Road. This little book is She wrote to the mayor about the perfect exemplar of our category name, ''For Sharingproblem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. It is Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a mother's love letter little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to her child, told in rhyme formprovide a safe path overnight.|isbn=1948124505}}

|isbn=18385931871776574338|title=Guess What I Found in the PlaygroundLeilong's Too Long!|author=Victoria ThompsonJulia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5

|summary=Tilly is excitedEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. SheChildren who live at the top of tower blocks don's just come dashing t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her window and a big grin on her faceslide down his neck. DadIt's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has'perfect, isn' t it? What could be a more fun way of going to try to guess what she found in the playground todayschool? There is a problem, although she concedes that he will never guessthough. Dad wants to know how school was, but Leilong isn't happy in the city: he'obviously'' thats always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible longer than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stufftennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but The school decides thathe can's not what she wants Dad to guesst be the bus anymore.

|isbn=16867516801776574028|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanDavid Elliott

|summary=Which child doesnI love a good board book! 't think that their mother is, well, 'Bumblebee Grumblebee'weird'is aimed at quite a niche market: it'? It might be that in s for the morning their mother doesn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that that is when youcan ''play''re at your brightest with lots to say? words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''Whyballetphant'' . The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then does Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then theredries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo's doing yoga in front of the television, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funny. We won The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros''t go into too much detail (think about what goes it!) The pelican who sits on in the bathroom and the colour his potty changes which have occured when Mummy emerges and frankly, the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts on the wallinto a ''sm....... '' I meanOK, what else would you use paint for?let's not go there Some people are eating!

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk1838226834|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall

|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But nowre there to undo all the good that parents do, it's timeso the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br>who told him:

I hope you haven't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bed. If you're a parent at least, youIt'll know how it is to persuade an excited small person that yesbe brilliant, it is in fact time for bed. just remember, don''What Wonders DoYou See..t let go of my hand.'' sets out to cater to these children. Instead of trying to persuade them that night time is calm time, it takes a slightly different tack. It tells them that sleep is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over and has no limit. But the trick in accessing this wonderful and exciting world is to get calm and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open the door to it. |isbn=194812422X }}

|isbn=0993340334B09MYXSRV4|title=BunnyOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Peter Lynas and Clare LindleyCordellya Smith

|summary=You might have seen Bunny on When the world was made, the beach where animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he livedcould become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Like many beaches it was full of sand Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and Bunny didn't like sand' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not least because the ability to use it got between his toes and ''scratched''well. What he really He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was juicy green grasshow he came to be in a race with Turtle. All the other rabbits lived on the top of the cliff, where Bunny could You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see a lot of tasty-looking grass. But the cliff was very highThings are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.

|isbnauthor=1925820025Rob Keeley|title=Once, I was Loved|author=Belinda LandsberryCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4

|summary=Tock Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, the toy rabbitcabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is in a box of toys going keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to the charity shopeat. He realises One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that he's not wanted any morecarrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, but muses who explains that it wasn't always this wayfruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. ''Once'', he Jordan says, ''"I was loved''. And he tells us of all the children who have loved him over the yearsdid try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V

|isbn=0993340342B09FFJF8YS|title=Madeleine Goes You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''  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 Moonbirds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Peter Lynas Justine Avery and Charlie RobertsNaday Meldova|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Madeleine is Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a very lucky girl: in her roomchild that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, she has all a girl could ask for in that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the way of toyswrong time. In class, bookssay, games when everyone will hear it and dollieseveryone will laugh. At you. SheJustine Avery's a very lucky girl latest entry in another way tooher ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: she has imagination ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and everything Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in her room can be used the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take her on adventuresthe pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes to be alone, but MadeleineIt's not alone on all the trips she takesa worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. We'll find out that yesterday she was told to tidy her room, but instead of doing that, she went to the moon .

|isbn=0993340318B07GZ81J7C|title=Recipe for Making a SnowmanWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Lynas and Rosie AlabasterCotton|rating=4.5

|summary=Who knew it? Meet Fred. You can even get a recipe book which tells Well, actually, you how to make a snowman - and there's no cooking involved! Mum, Dad and the two children are absolutely meticulous though: they're going to get everything right, even down to doing some mining to get the coal be meeting Fred-Fred for the eyes, searching through the bits reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'n bobs jar for buttons for the snowmanm getting ahead of myself: I's coat d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and picking out the perfect piece even those of headgear. There's quite us who have a choice available, but the family decide on the bobble hat, presumably phobia about snakes are going to keep the snowman warmto him. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won't do and He arrived as a present in a pair box with purple holes so that he could breathe and pink stripes are chosen.}}�{{Frontpage|isbn=0993340350|title=The Very Rude Toytoise|author=Peter Lynas and Andy S Gray|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It was one immediately became part of those blissful days in the forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted family, to make the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a cakewalk. Mrs Blue Bird And that was gathering twigs to build a nestwhere the problem started. Mrs Spider was busily spinning a web to catch juicy fliesFred didn't have any road sense. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably in a chair, fishing for lunch. What could be better? And then..Or brakes.}}�{{Frontpage|isbnauthor=1925810097Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Don't Drink the Pink|author=B C R FeganEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. HeCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn's always busy in his workshopt, creating crazy potionsas any parent will tell you. But really, and he always has a smile on his face. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers and Madelinewhy shouldn's mum thinks the same but gives him a pass because he's old. But Madelinet it be? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is We all have to learn about our bodily functions just greatas we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and allows her to choose one as a gift. And he always says the same thing...moon take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHH

|isbnauthor=1910989339Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Loved to Bits|author=Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonNo, No, No!|rating=54

|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''Loved to BitsNo, No, No!'' is based around the heartwarming story of a boysimplest text imaginable. 's love for his bear. Bear's adventures with boy take him to all kinds of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their wayNo, from the jungle to the sea. Inevitably mishaps occur on the way. The loss of an armno, a legno! Okay, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery ''don't worryokay. Yes, Iyou may.'ve got one more' That'. s it! But boy loves him just as he is and won't hear of him being mended. His place, after like allthe best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is in Boy's beda veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|isbn=1638820457

|isbn=0874869722194812467X|title=When Spring Comes to the DMZThe Farm Shop|author=Uk-Bae LeeDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=54

|summary=There Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is a place on this earth that, at the time of writing, dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is resplendent with lifeperfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. In As they walk to the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, for fear top of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. In the autumn, salmon come upstreamhill, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and die if they reach their birthing groundssee a big barn with a sign outside. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. This It's a farm shop! But this is a snapshot of life in farm shop with a difference: all the DMZstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their namegoats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and it's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuarySam go shopping. What will they buy?

|isbn=14197314080995647895|title=Sweep: The Story of a Girl Sadie and her Monsterthe Sea Dogs|author=Jonathan AuxierMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5

|summary=Nan is Sadie's mother always said that she was a climberdreamer, the best chimney sweep in Londonher mind never on what she should be doing. She is growing fast, so what will happen to her when lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she gets too big loves to climb, when people realise she is a girl? Everything changes, when she is stuck spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in a chimneythe gloom, set ''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on fire, an ancient sailing ship and saved by went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a golem. A story of outcasts, and friendships, told through two tales, glass case (it's the girl one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the sweep, closing bell and the girl and her monsterattendant's warning shout. Both intertwined beautifully so When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that you she could never have imagined in a fairy tale within a fairy tale. Moments world of sadness slip easily into glorious happinessdolphins, then swiftly into heart-breaking tragedy. This is a heart-warming and engaging read for both young pirates, mermaids and oldtreasure.

|isbn=17868943271782227741|title=The Truth PixieLittle Gold Ted|author=Matt Haig Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Chris MouldSasha Satha|rating=54

|summary=Poor old Truth PixieOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. SheIt's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell quite a deep puddle and the truthwater is swirling. You might think this Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a good thing because telling lies is baddrain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, right? But sometimes the truth isnTed starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE''t nice and sometimes a white lie is okay he cries and sometimes it's better to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract alerts the attention of Reg the school bully by calling sewer rat, who plucks him mean and nastyout of the dirty water using his cane, for example, or you which might not want to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awfullook just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.

|isbn=1785899953B08R7LXQ9S|title=The Frog Who Was BlueRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Faiz KermaniMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down 'Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted 'again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Croak College, the most famous school for frogs in MalawiRemy, but the other students all turn their backs on calling him. He names because he is just too different!'' Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewatershort and has small eyes. Many creatures find a home there, including frogsThey are mean but they are not stupid. For some reason that They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can remember, all see and then push him just that little bit further when the Lake Ticklewater frogs other kids are blue. They think nothing of itaround. So, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak CollegeRemy reacts, it looks as though he was the first Ticklewater frog to manage such a feat, instigator. And then he is filled with excitement gets into trouble at school and his only worry is how much the teachers don't believe him when he will miss his friends and familytries to explain what happened.

|isbn=17871129261471191303|title=Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too?The Invisible|author=Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeTom Percival

|summary=When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was This is the story of Isobel, a rather frightened dog little girl who had difficulty meeting peoplemade a big difference. He's Isobel lived with her parents in a bit better now and something which he really enjoys is going for house - a walk. Itvery cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''s not just a case Ice curled across the inside of attaching a lead the window and heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other things and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to think about firstmove to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.