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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Preston Rutt and Ben RedlichAdam Stower|title=Tortoise vs. Hare - The Rematch!Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Harry 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'The Hurricanes a bad magician' Hare s cat, so his favourite bun has been licking his wounds since 'Steady' Eddie Tortoise beat him in turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the famous raceregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. It's This time for round it drops them into a Viking land, where a rematchtroll hunter is expected – well, and Harryone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's been training hard. Eddie couldnturned up and he't possibly win again, could he?ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845394186</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Manham and Penny Dann1732898766|title=The Giant CarrotAdventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Jack is quite When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the gardenerForest of Fine Repute. All his hard work means his vegetable patch Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is awash with lucious veggieschasing them. One day He's right behind them, he decides to pull up some carrots and make soupspewing hot, but the biggest carrot just wouldnsour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't budgeend well. He's going ) 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 have to get some chums to help himthe Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843625911</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Andreae and David WojtowyczB0CC9W7GLR|title=Commotion In On the Beach: The OceanWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=There's Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a commotion in snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the ocean: shoreline. On top of the dolphins are squeakingice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the jellyfish are jiggling, bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the lobsters are clippetty-clapping snippety-snappingice. Animal by animal Kit was all for making a run for it, Giles Andreae (best-known for [[Giraffes Can't Dance Magnet Book by Giles Andreae but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and Guy Parker-Rees|Giraffes Can't Dance]]) takes us through then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the underwater adventures, with short, snappy poemsbus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408308452</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Hargreaves1913839656|title=Mr Nobody (Mr Men and Little Misses)|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mr Nobody is... well, heLet's somebody who sort of is and sort of isn't. Mr Happy comes across him one day, and does his best to cheer him up. Who could possibly help a person who's sort of there and sort of isn't? Ah, the Wizard!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405251425</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCelebrate Being Different|author=Tony Mitton and Guy Parker-Rees|title=Jolly Olly OctopusLainey Dee
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|summary=Jolly Olly Octopus is giggling underneath Todd was excited about spending the seaweekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He's soon joined by packed two tickly turtles, three smiley seahorses, pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and so on through then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the numbersFriday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. The large cast of underwater animals are having a jolly ol' time At home, until a shark appears.his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846166861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie Sandall1529504775|title=BirdsongThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=One by one Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the birds land on park and watch the branchred buses drive past. Each is a different species, each has different plumage, and most importantly each has a different call. The chorus Elsie would race the buses along the side of birdsong builds up the park but David couldn't - he'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 as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up until , use the biggest bird of all lands on bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the branchbus, with his loud shriek. Ahnow damaged and rusted, but who's this about to land on the branch Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405247371</amazonuk>it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anu Stohner and Henrike Wilson1529504767|title=Charlotte The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and the WolvesKatie Hickey|rating=3.5
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|summary=Hot on the heels of her adventure Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in [[Brave Charlotte by Anu Stohner 1939 and Henrike Wilson|Brave Charlotte]], the brave little sheep is backnervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. Sheneedn's t have worried though as bold as evershe went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, and the older sheep who couldn't have stopped worrying about been kinder to her. She even had her wild waysown room - all to herself. Added into the mix are a gang of teenage sheep who call themselves The Wolves Gradually she relaxed and worry the lambsbegan to enjoy her life. When real wolf howls can be heard, but not by She'd help Mrs Russell with the shepherd or Jack the old sheepdog, baking and when it's down came to Charlotte to save Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the day againfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802589</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hiawyn Oram and Sarah Warburton1916459943|title=Rumblewick and the Dinner Dragons (The Rumblewick Letters)|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Haggy Aggy is an unscary witch and decides she wants to make friends with dragons. Her cat, Rumblewick Spellwacker Mortimer B, is a little unsure of this, so writes to his friend Grimey for advice. Their correspondence fills this latest book in the ''Rumblewick Letters'' series, following on from [[My Unwilling Witch (The Rumblewick Letters) by Hiawyn Oram|My Unwilling Witch]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160642</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSqueakily Baby|author=David Conway and Melanie Williamson|title=The Great Nursery Rhyme DisasterBeth Webb
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|summary=Little Miss Muffet is fed up of being constantly scared by Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a spidersqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, so she ups sticks he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and heads for a different page of the bookwaves sing ''hush, to see if hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the characters of another nursery rhyme will let her sound perfectly. The mermaids join in- ''la lou, la lay.. She tries one rhyme after another, but things never quite work .'' And for a moment it seems to planhave worked as Baby closes his eyes. Will she find Then a nursery rhyme that suits her seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to a T?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340945087</amazonuk>happen next.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Gravett140639131X|title=Blue ChameleonA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=The chameleon is feeling blue because hePhilippa Pheasant was 's lonely, so he goes and visits 'tired'' 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 yellow banana, pink cockatoo, swirly snail, brown boot, problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and so ondecided that she would set up something similar herself. Each time, not only does he change his colour Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to match start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the object or animal, but he also contorts himself into crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a shape that matches themsafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704247</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Inga Moore1776574338|title=Six Dinner Sid - A Highland AdventureLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=3.54
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|summary=Sid Every morning Leilong, the cat has six owners in six different housesbrontosaurus school bus, and he munches makes his way through six dinners a daythe city, picking up children as he goes. This big ol Children who live at the top of tower blocks don' greedyguts has a great life, but then one day his owners all decide they want t even need to go on holidaydownstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. They consider putting him in It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a cattery, but they have strange rules like one meal per catproblem, not sixthough. They give it some thought, Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and eventually decide – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to all go on holiday together, taking Sid with themand traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988940</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Foreman1776574028|title=Why The Animals Came To TownBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=3.54
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|summary=A young boy looks out of his bedroom window and sees I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a parade of animals walking up his street. Theyniche market: it've come to show him s for the deserts and ice capschild who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to warn him of have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the importance of taking care of Earthelephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. Without the animals, he realises the world would be The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a much more desolate place''sm.......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406318019</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Wormell1838226834|title=One Smart Fish|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Many, many, many years ago, Carried Away With 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>}} {{newreviewCarnival|author=Jean Reidy and Genevieve Leloup|title=Too Purply!Ed Boxall|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's time for school, but the young girl and her tortoise don't want to wear any was one of their clothesthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're too purply, too tickly, too puckerythere to undo all the good that parents do, too prickly, and so on. You get the idea. Adjectives abound in this trips out were always so much fun getting dressed book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803151</amazonuk>}} A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Angela McAllister Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Alex T SmithHare|titleauthor=My Mum Has X-Ray VisionCordellya Smith
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|summary=Milo suspects his mum has x-ray visionWhen 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. She can Owl had excellent sight so that he could see through the ceiling downstairs when hepresent ''and''s jumping on her bedthe future. She can see through Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the outside wall when ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how hecame to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's making potions in the garden in her saucepans. Is she really not a superhero? Milo puts her to the testfair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105388</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Yolen and Mark TeagueRob Keeley|title=How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=3.54
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|summary=[[How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen|How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?]] was a witty Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and visually creative tale of Very Bad Bedtime Behaviour aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for modern children enamoured of dinosaursyou and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. 'How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?' continues Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the formulaground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, this time with table mannersMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007216092</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Lum and Sue HellardB09FFJF8YS|title=Princesses Are Not PerfectYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=Princesses Allie''For the big, Mellie and Libby love bakinggrownup girls out there, gardening and building respectively. The day before the big summer partypotty masters in training, they suddenly fancy "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a change cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and all swap jobspersevering panty pride. With a hundred punnets of blueberries to pick, a hundred cupcakes to make, and a hundred chairs to build, the children are going to be awfully disappointed if the princesses' new-found interests aren't successful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599297</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=Jackie French Justine Avery and Bruce Whatley Naday Meldova|title=Emily and the Big Bad BunyipEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=The author-illustrator partnership 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 created is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'Diary of a Wombat'series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, [[Pete with the Sheep by Jackie Frenchfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|Pete the Sheep]] title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'Josephine Wants to Dance' bring all their Aussie characters together is the latest release in a Christmas book the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a Antipodean twistworthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007324278</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham OakleyB07GZ81J7C|title=The Church MouseWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=Arthur the church mouse lives in peace with Sampson the meek church catMeet Fred. Well, actually, but he gets lonely from time 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 a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to timehim. He hits on arrived as a present in a great idea: box with holes so that he'll invite all the other mice could breathe and immediately became part of the town family, to come and live the extent that they would take Fred out with them. The parson agrees, as long as when they agree to do went out for a few odd jobs around walk. And that was where the placeproblem started. Then one day, a burglar breaks in and there Fred didn's no-one around to stop him but Arthur, Sampson and the mice.t have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1840116102</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet Charters Justine Avery and Michael ForemanNaday Meldova|title=The GeneralEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=General Jodhpur keeps his soldiers busyCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, polishing their boots and practising shootingas any parent will tell you. He wants But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to become the most famous general in the whole worldlearn about everything else when we are small. One dayWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, he's thrown off his horsesay, learning about why the sun and discovers the joys of lying moon take turns 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.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763648752</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{Frontpage
|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova
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|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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Isadora and Clement Clarke Moore194812467X|title=The Night Before ChristmasFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Everyone knows Kirelle and loves Clement Clarke Moore's poem ''A Visit From St Nicholas''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 perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. Even if you don't go As they walk to the whole hog, gathering the family round by the log fire, and reading it together, its opening line top of '''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the househill, not they see a creature was stirring, not even big barn with a mouse..sign outside.It'' fills you s a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a warm glowdifference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. You can practically smell the mulled wine There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and hear the snores of Auntie Gertrude during the Queen's Speecheven some mice. It's an absolute classicExcited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399254080</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Jill Tomlinson Sadie and Paul Howardthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=The Penguin Who Wanted To Find OutMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Otto the penguin lives on his fatherSadie's feet at the bottom of the worldmother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. He's an inquisitive little thing and wants to know why they haven't fallen off She lives by the world. His dad explains that they won't Because I say so. Otto River Thames at Greenwich and his friend Leo gradually expand their horizons from their fathers' feet - they meet other penguin chicks, get she loves to know their aunts who watch them when their fathers are away, and eventually grow feathers so they're big enough to toboggan on their bellies and swim in the seaspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140523041X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Abbott Nez 1782227741|title=Cromwell Dixon's Sky-CycleLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Meet Cromwell DixonOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. HeIt's quite a real tinkerer, forever in deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a barn or somewhere building something manically unusualdrain on the side of the street. Finding himself Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with that word - down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he's around at cries and alerts the attention of Reg the birth sewer rat, who plucks him out of powered flightthe dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Will his plans for Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>nice bowl of broth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Helmore and Karen WallB08R7LXQ9S|title=Oh No, Monster Tomato!Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Marvin Remy is entering the Great Grislygust Grow-Offfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just like himthat little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, his tomatoes arenit looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't growing very big. He takes the only sensible course of action: believe him when he sings his tomatoes a song. The results are spectacular. Victory is surely within his grasptries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524741X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=This 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.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Iain Smyth Nick Jones and Michael TerrySi Clark|title=The Wide-Mouthed FrogOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=Do you know the joke about the wide-mouthed frog? You must Many children have heard it. It's a classic. It's one that you really need to tell an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in personBeartown, is obsessed with your fingers pulling your mouth wide openbears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, but to hopefully spark your memorya teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, the wide-mouthed frog introduces himself to a number she looks out of animals until he finally comes across a crocodile who eats wide-mouthed frogs, her bedroom window and says goodnight to the frog does his best bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to disguise who he is whilst saying ''OohBee Bear, you don't see many of those round here, do you?'' I'm hardly doing it justice, but it's very cheesy and funny. Anyway, this is a book of colourful painted bear that jokelives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408804964</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
