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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=19481245720008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Think Outside the BoxThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Justine Avery Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Liuba SyrotuikIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they''Whenever you find a problem <br>''Wherever therere 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 a puzzle to solve <br>right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won'However you get stuck in t end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside the box'' And so begins the latest picture book from Justine Avery ladder of moss and Liuba Syrotiukvines was lowered for them, they escaped. It's a clarion call They climbed up to children to use the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their imaginations Grand Wees, Nester Nook and not logic alone when it comes to solving problemsGranny Cranny.
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|isbn=1948124440B0CC9W7GLR|title=What Wonders Await OutdoorsOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Justine Avery Chris Green and Liuba SyrotiukJenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=The second book in Justine Avery's Wonders series is the perfect antidote Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to long summer days with be at home, bored children - but warm, orfrozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, indeedthe bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, as we've found recently, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the worldbus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What do else would you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played with, repurposed, and played with again?
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|isbn=17765728581913839656|title=How Do You Make a Baby?Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Lainey Dee|rating=3.5|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she madethe best beetle juice. My mother was deeply embarrassed He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and told me that she'd get me a book about itthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) local community centre and I Todd was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further pleased about this as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''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.
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|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
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|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
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|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.}}
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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Daria Yudina1916459943|title=This Book Is Alive! (Living Book)Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|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}}
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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Ema Tepic 140639131X|title=I Dreamed YouA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=It is always a pleasure to review a new book by Justine Avery and Philippa Pheasant was ''I Dreamed Youtired'' carries of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem 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 tradition beautifullyschool crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. This Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little book is amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the perfect exemplar of our category name, 'crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don''t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It 's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a motherproblem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's love letter longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to her child, told in rhyme formand traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|isbn=1948124505}}
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|isbn=18385931871776574028|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=Victoria ThompsonDavid Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=Tilly I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is excited. Sheaimed at quite a niche market: it's just come dashing out of for the classroomchild who still enjoys board books (er, pigtails flapping behind her see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and a big grin on her facemake something quite different from each one. Dad's come to collect her We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and her brother and he becomes a ''hasballetphant'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''obviouslyfluffalo'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a scrap ''bookcrynoceros''?(think about it!) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuffThe pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm....... '' There are sequinsOK, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but thatlet's not what she wants Dad to guess.go there Some people are eating!
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|isbn=16867516801838226834|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanEd Boxall
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|summary=Which child doesnIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They't think re there to undo all the good that their mother isparents do, well, ''weird''? so the trips out were always so much fun. It might be that in A young boy was going to the morning their mother doesn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when you're at your brightest carnival with lots to say? his Grandad, who told him: ''WhyIt'' then does Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then there's doing yoga in front of the televisionll be brilliant, just remember, which could be worrying if it wasndon't so funnylet go of my hand. We won't go into too much detail about what goes on in the bathroom and the colour changes which have occured when Mummy emerges and frankly, the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts on the wall. I mean, what else would you use paint for?'
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|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Justine Avery Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Liuba SyrotiukHare|titleauthor=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?Cordellya Smith
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|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''The day has endedand''<br>the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'Hasn't ll tell you how it been splendid?'' <br>came about.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4|genre=For Sharing''But now|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, it's timegrow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to be suretell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=You Can'' <br>t Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For an entirely different adventurethe 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.' <br>'
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|isbnauthor=0993340334Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Bunny|author=Peter Lynas and Clare LindleyEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=You might have seen Bunny on Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the beach where he livedwrong time. Like many beaches In class, say, when everyone will hear it was full of sand and Bunny didneveryone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery't like sands latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, not least because explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it got between his toes and : ''scratchedEverybody Toots''. !|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} What he really liked was juicy green grass{{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4. All 5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the other rabbits lived on latest release in the top ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the cliffpain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, where Bunny could see a lot of tasty-looking grassas any frustrated parent will tell you. But the cliff was very high.
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|isbn=1925820025B07GZ81J7C|title=Once, I was LovedWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Belinda LandsberryPeter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=TockMeet Fred. Well, the toy rabbitactually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is in a box snake and even those of toys us who have a phobia about snakes are going to the charity shopwarm to him. He realises arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he's not wanted any morecould breathe and immediately became part of the family, but muses to the extent that it wasn't always this waythey would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. ''Once'', he says, ''I And that was loved'where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. And he tells us of all the children who have loved him over the yearsOr brakes.
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|isbnauthor=0993340342Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Madeleine Goes to the Moon|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie RobertsEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in her roomCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, she has all a girl could ask for in the way of toys, booksas any parent will tell you. But really, games and dollies. Shewhy shouldn's a very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination and everything in her room can t it be used ? We all have to take her on adventures. She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes learn about our bodily functions just as we have to be alone, but Madeleine's not alone on all the trips she takeslearn about everything else when we are small. WeWhy shouldn'll find out that yesterday she was told to tidy her roomt potty training be as much fun as, but instead of doing thatsay, she went to learning about why the sun and the moon.take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHH
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|isbnauthor=0993340318Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Recipe for Making a Snowman|author=Peter Lynas and Rosie AlabasterNo, No, No!
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|summary=Who knew it? You can even get They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a recipe book which tells you how to make a snowman - and thereBookbag favourite. ''s no cooking involvedNo, No, No! Mum, Dad and '' is based around the two children are absolutely meticulous though: theysimplest text imaginable. ''re going to get everything rightNo, no, no! Okay, even down to doing some mining to get the coal for the eyesokay. Yes, searching through the bits you may.''n bobs jar for buttons for the snowman That's coat and picking out it! But, like all the perfect piece best picture books, this tiny snippet of headgear. There's quite text is a choice available, but veritable tardis - so much bigger on the family decide inside that it appears on the bobble hat, presumably to keep the snowman warmoutside. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won't do and a pair with purple 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 of those blissful days in the forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to make a cake. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build a nest. Mrs Spider was busily spinning a web to catch juicy flies. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably in a chair, fishing for lunch. What could be better? And then...1638820457}}�{{Frontpage|isbn=1925810097194812467X|title=Don't Drink the PinkThe Farm Shop|author=B C R FeganDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Madeline Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. He's always busy perfectly turned out as ever in his workshopsmart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, creating crazy potions, and he always has they see a big barn with a smile on his facesign outside. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers and MadelineIt's mum thinks the same but gives him a pass because he's old. farm shop! But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry this is just great. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives a farm shop with a selection of potions difference: all the stallholders and allows her to choose one as a gift. And he always says the same thingcustomers are farmyard animals.There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice.Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they buy?
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|isbn=19109893390995647895|title=Loved to BitsSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Teresa Heapy Maureen Duffy and Katie CleminsonAnita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. 'Loved to Bits'Her class had gone one rainy afternoon'' is the heartwarming story of a boy<br>'s love for his bear. Bear's adventures with boy take him to When all kinds of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put the houses cowered in their waythe gloom, from ''<br>''To the jungle Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the sea. Inevitably mishaps occur oceans on the wayan ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. The loss of an arm, One day she fell asleep under a leg, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery glass case (it''don't worry, I've got s the one morewhere Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. But boy loves him just as he is and wonWhen she woke (hard floors don't hear make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of him being mended. His placedolphins, after allpirates, is in Boy's bedmermaids and treasure.
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|isbn=08748697221782227741|title=When Spring Comes to the DMZLittle Gold Ted|author=Uk-Bae LeeVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=There One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a place drain on this earth that, at the time side of writingthe street. Finding himself down in the sewer, is resplendent with lifeTed starts to panic. In ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the spring seals gambol in attention of Reg the river – not venturing too farsewer rat, for fear who plucks him out of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. In the autumndirty water using his cane, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they which might, for they will spawn and die if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing solook just a bit like an old cricket bat. This Reg is a snapshot kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of life in the DMZ, the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, and it's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuarybroth.
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|isbn=1419731408B08R7LXQ9S|title=SweepRemy: The Story of a Girl and her MonsterA book about believing in yourself|author=Jonathan AuxierMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=54
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|summary=Nan Remy is a climber, the best chimney sweep in Londonfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. She is growing fastThe school bully Jayden, so what will happen to her when she gets too big to climb together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, when people realise she is a girl? Everything changeshave been laughing at Remy, when she calling him names because he is stuck in a chimney, set on fire, short and saved by a golemhas small eyes. A story of outcasts, They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and friendshipsthen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, told through two taleswhen Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the girl and the sweep, and the girl and her monster. Both intertwined beautifully so that you have a fairy tale within a fairy taleinstigator. Moments of sadness slip easily into glorious happiness, And then swiftly he gets into heart-breaking tragedy. This is a heart-warming trouble at school and engaging read for both young and oldthe teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.
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|isbn=17868943271471191303|title=The Truth PixieInvisible|author=Matt Haig and Chris MouldTom Percival
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|summary=Poor old Truth PixieThis is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost. She's cursed! She can' The family didn't speak unless it's go to tell the truthcinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes Then the truth isnday came when they couldn't nice afford the rent for the house and sometimes a white lie is okay and sometimes it's better they had to say nothing at all. You might not want move to attract the attention far side of the city. This part of the school bully by calling him mean city was cold, sad and lonely and nasty, for example, or you might not want to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awfulIsobel felt invisible.
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|author=Nick Jones and Si Clark
|title=One Night in Beartown
|rating=4
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|summary= 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 her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!
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