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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam LloydAdam 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=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Boris BabysitsThe Adventures 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= Leaving your child with someone When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the first time Sour Milk Dragon is a daunting task for any new parentchasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. You want to pick someone for (Please don't try this task that you can trust; a sensible person who has some experience looking after a babyat home: it won't end well. ) Perhaps Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a parentladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, sibling or a good friend? they escaped. The person that you are unlikely They climbed up to pick is Boris. Not only is he irresponsiblethe Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, he also happens to be a monsterNester Nook and Granny Cranny. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704152</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Fox and Christyan FoxB0CC9W7GLR|title=A Dog Called BearOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=Lucy had always wanted 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 dog and she'd been preparing for the moment snowy beach when her dreams could come true for a long time: she'd read all large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the books, bought doggie things and her bedroom ice was plastered with doggie picturesa polar bear. One day she set out to make her dream come true: accosting animals As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and presenting her credentials (there really is no other way of explaining it..with wobbly legs moved from the ice.) First up, Kit was all for making a frogrun for it, who presents but Teal knew that the counter arguments to dog ownership bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then makes his own case, adding that he would only need a bath every dayanother. Lucy's sorry, but she only has He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a showergood meal and somewhere to sleep...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571329446</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie1913839656|title=The Detective DogLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=Detective dog Nell, Todd was excited about spending the weekend with her great sense of smellhis grandmother, is a rather remarkable dog! She works very hard from Tuesday to Sunday, finding lost things, like a ball down the toilet, and solving mysteries such as where is not least because she made the lost shoe by sniffing it outbest beetle juice. It's in the shed, actually, He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and if you look a little more closely you might start then gathered together his button collection to suspect that actually Nell might have show his grandmother. She had more promised to do with these lost things and mysteries than she should have! Anyway, those are her busy days, but on Mondays she goes take him to school with Peter, the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and she listens Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to the children reading her booksmake new friends. She loves all sorts of booksAt home, about dinosaurs his only friend was his mum and princes and dragons and dogs, and she loves the smell of the bookshe wondered why that could be. So when she goes to school one Monday and finds Grandma thought that all the books are missing, Detective dog Nell is the one they need to help find all the booksit might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509801596</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jorg Muhle1529504775|title=Tickle My EarsThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Little Rabbit is getting ready for bedElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. ItElsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn's getting late, so can you 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 him? David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. He's going Gradually, David learned to need to get his pyjamas onstand up, use the bus for support, and his pillow needs fluffingwalk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and he might need a little stroke on his backrusted, or for his ears to have a ticklethe Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it. What a sleepy little rabbit he is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570766</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Tracey Corderoy Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and Jane Chapman when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Squish Squash Squeeze! Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=When Mouse moves into his new houseMuch as mothers love their babies, he thinks itthere's going to be perfectsomething they all dread - a squeakily baby. But then he finds there He's already quite a collection of animals so tired but hecan'll have t - or won't - go to share withsleep: instead, he discovers a big brown bear behind the piano just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and a crocodile crammed in the bathwaves sing ''hush, hush''. When Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a tiger comes whizzing down sandy beach and you have the bannister it becomes a bit of a squishsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a squash and moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a squeeze. The animals donseagull '''shouts'''t and we know exactly what to do until they hear a rumble under the floor – it looks like they're s going to have an even bigger problemhappen next. Or are they?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691904</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Britta Teckentrup140639131X|title=One is Not a PairA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=I Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the type 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 child the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would sit indoors on set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a sunny day little amateur to start with their head in a puzzle book rather than getting anything important like Vitamin D. I may be pasty white nowadays, but at least I know my way around a good spot-the-difference book when I see onebenefits were obvious. And I spy with my little eye, one right hereAll the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704632</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T S Eliot and Arthur Robins1776574338|title=MacavityLeilong's Not ThereToo Long!: A Lift-the-Flap Book|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=Looking backEvery morning Leilong, one the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of the first games Itower blocks don've played with every baby I've encountered is t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the one where you hide behind your hands and then appear surprised when you drop them window and see the babyslide down his neck. It never fails 's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to get school? There is a smileproblem, though. (I know - it was probably wind...) Macavity has perfected Leilong isn't happy in the game, city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because - wherever you look - he's not therelonger than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. Here at Bookbag Towers we loved [[Macavity,the Mystery Cat by T S Eliot and Arthur Robins|the full version]] of T S EliotThe school decides that he can's poem, but what about t be the very youngest children - the ones who really love the idea of someone - or something - not being where you expect them to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571328636</amazonuk>bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain and Lee Wildish1776574028|title=Treats for a T RexBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=34
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|summary=One hot summer our family got I love a new Labrador puppy and, seeing as I was good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at home most of quite a niche market: it's for the time revising for examschild who still enjoys board books (er, it was decided see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that I would be the person to train said dogyou can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. After We have the elephant who dons a few months of hard training came tutu - and becomes a grown dog… that was the worst trained we ever had''balletphant''. Laddy may have been an expert in play fighting The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and eating, but not much elsethen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) With my spotted history in animal husbandry I am not equipped to train any animal and especially not The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a T Rex''sm.......'' OK, but perhaps George is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273623</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Hay and Nick East1838226834|title=Do Not Wash This BearCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=Dad is not very It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good at washing. There are those of us who would shrug this off and feel happy that at least he gives it a goparents do, but then I guess after a while shrunken T-shirts and dyed vests become a little tiresome! so the trips out were always so much fun. Anyway, one day dad decides that Bear has become a little bit stinky and needs A young boy was going to go in the washcarnival with his Grandad, and although the child in the story shows dad the very clear label stating who told him: ''Do not wash this bearIt'' he decides to ignore the advice and throws him into the machine. Washing Bear turns out to ll be a very big mistakebrilliant, since some combination just remember, don't let go of the bubbles and the spin setting drastically alter poor Bearmy hand.''s personality, and when he comes out he is a very decidedly naughty and troublesome Bear!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277157</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Brown and Rowena BlythB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Mood HooverReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=3.54
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|summary=No one could ever have confused Stan with a sunbeamWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. He Bear was mischievous (well, personally, I'd have said 'unpleasant') and given strength so that he had could become a secret: an invention, in factprotector. He'd created Water Spider received a machine which strong web that even fire could suck up anything which was happy or fun and it was called 'the mood hoover'not burn. His sister's bedroom was the first place Owl had excellent sight so that he put could see the machine through its paces present ''and within a matter of moments all '' the girly niceness had been replaced by dullfuture. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, grey ordinariness. It didn't just work in confined spaces either: not the couple admiring a rainbow were surprised ability to find the vivid colours turned use it well. He liked to dullnesstrick other animals. You don't want to know what He was also jealous which was how he got up came to be in the zooa race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910851132</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona GallowayRob Keeley|title=I Love My DaddyCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Father's Day is a great time to really pump up your Dad's ego. If he is anything like me he already thinks he is a bit of an Adonis; seeing that paunch in the mirror more as relaxed muscle than the beer gut that it is. To be honest, as a Pop, I am pretty much content with a pint, a book or a football game, but if a child does insist on getting their elder a gift, a nice book about the parent/child relationship may just warm the coldest of cockles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691785</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ed Vere|title=Max and Bird|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ed Vere has a unique style of artwork for his picture books Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. The colours are vibrantShe likes carrots, broccoli, the characters are distinctivecabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, the style Lily is a little bit scrappy, in a very charming way. We keen to explain how good they are big fans in our house so we sat down eagerly for you and how nice to read the latest offeringeat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Here we have MaxInfuriated, a sweet black cat Lily checks with enormous eyes the teacher, who meets explains that fruits grow on trees and befriends a birdvegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. WellJordan says, "I did try to tell her, initially his plan is that they play chase Miss!" and then Max will eat up Bird for a tasty snack but Bird has another idea…everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241240190</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Morag HoodB09FFJF8YS|title=Colin and Lee, Carrot You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and PeaKate Zhoidik
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|summary=Sometimes people don’t quite fit in. Perhaps they are much taller than you''For the big, or perhaps they aren’t round enough to roll. Does this meangrownup girls out there, thenthe potty masters in training, that if someone is so different you can’t be their friend? When it comes to Colin and Lee, they are about as different as you can get, since one "You Can't Wear Panties!" is small and round and green and a pea and cry (the other is, well, a carrotbig-girl kind! But does that get in the way ) of their friendship?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808949</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paul Bright toilet triumph and Chris Chatterton |title=Therepersevering panty pride.''s a Bison Bouncing on the Bed|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Becoming And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a parent gives you many new insights into life; the pleasure in seeing a child smile or the amazement little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as they start she proudly explains to utter words. Howeverher dog, her cat, the one thing her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that you really begin to understand is – how much stuff costs''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. ClothesNeither can the flowers, foodnor the fish, transport, toys, even furniture. It all costs money and you now have a tiny wrecking ball running around nor the house seemingly doing their best to destroy them allbirds. It may seem like harmless fun to jump on the bed, but who pays for it when it breaks? The bison? I donBoy's certainly can't think so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692358</amazonuk>She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex T Smith Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Claude All at Sea Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=Claude 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 a small dog who likes wearing a beret . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and a lovely red jumpereveryone will laugh. At you. He lives Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with Mr tooting and Mrs Shinyshoes gently and his best friend calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is a stripy sock called Sir Bobblysockperfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444903675</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel BrightB09BG8V3Q6|title=Amazing DaddyWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Daddy Panda and Baby Panda are spending ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the day together, and Baby Panda is thinking about all latest release in the different reasons why his daddy is brilliant''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. These range from how he smells safe and warm This series of fun picture books aims to take the extra large breakfasts that daddy makes! There are lots pain out of common, everyday situationspotty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, so little ones as any frustrated parent will enjoy making comparisons with their own lives, and discussing what makes their daddy amazingtell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331675</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nadia ShireenB07GZ81J7C|title=The Bumblebear|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Ever a sucker for a book about a bear, this one has fast become a favourite for me. Norman is an ordinary kind of bear, small and cuddly and a big fan of honey. He is such a big fan, in fact, that he comes up with a cunning plan in order to make his honey hunting much easier. He decides to dress up as a bee (a giant bee, from Giant Bee Land, obviously) and join Bee School where he has When Fred the most marvellous time learning about things like buzzing Snake Got Squished and finding smelly flowers. However, although most of the bees are convinced of his bee-ness, there is one rather clever little bee who grows increasingly suspicious of poor Norman…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780080158</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMended|author=Catherine Rayner |title=Augustus and His SmilePeter Cotton
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|summary= Trying Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to find 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 tiger's smile bit more about Fred. Fred is no easy feata snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. The chances are He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that it will be on he could breathe and immediately became part of the end of their face and this is a face full off teethfamily, attached to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a powerful cat with clawswalk. Personally, I would leave finding a tiger's smile to someone far more trained And that I, or was where the animal themselvesproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Thankfully, Augustus is a practical chap and he sets out to discover what exactly did happen to his smileOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848692323</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne Willis Justine Avery and Leonie LordNaday Meldova|title=Lottie Potter Wants an OtterEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=34
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|summary=Purchasing a new pet is a complex enough business without trying Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to use alliteration, so reading a book learn about pet purchases and tongue twisters can get tricky. The adult can end up tripping over their own words everything else when reading out loud to their childwe are small. The kid may find this funnyWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, but does it make for a pleasurable readlearning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007501331</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire PhillipJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Convertible Submarine No, No, No!
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|summary=They told me life would say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be easy reviewing books; grab ittruer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''No, read itNo, review itNo!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. What they did not say that I would have to do is also play with it ''No, no, build it and sit in itno! There is a thin line between an interactive book and a toyOkay, okay. When this thin line involves a book that Yes, you can convert into a play mat and also a submarinemay.'' That's it! But, it is hard to understand what it is at like all. Welcome to the world best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the ''Convertible Submarine''outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782099980</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg McLaren194812467X|title=Life is MagicThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=54
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|summary=It is not often that you pick up a book Kirelle and feel her best friend Sam the warmth and magic come of itcat decide to go for a walk. It Kirelle is extremely rare dressed for all weathers in adult fiction, but her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in children's books you find it more often if you only lookhis smart grey fur coat. Great illustrations and wonderful stories can combine As they walk to make the top of the hill, they see a book that will entrance both big barn with a youngster and adult as they read togethersign outside. When you find one of these books you should treasure it as it It's a farm shop! But this is something that may be read to your grandchildren in a farm shop with a difference: all the futurestallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443383</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chae Strathie and Nicola O'Byrne0995647895|title= Gorilla Loves Vanilla|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= One day, I imagine it's probably a sunny Saturday, all the animals are heading to Sam's Sundaes for special treats. A bit like the wonder that is ''Marble Slab'' (google it), Sam can create any flavour you desire. Blue cheese flavour for Mouse? Easy. Worm flavour for Chicken? Ick…but not problem. Mud flavour for Hippo, fish finger flavour for Cat, time and again Sam gets it right. But then Gorilla arrives Sadie and all the animals strain to hear what this big beast will request…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407148109</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Dogs|author= Judith Kerr|title= Mog Maureen Duffy and Me and other Stories|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=''Mog and Me'' is a set of 4 stories in one board book. They are ''very'' short stories which make them a great introduction to Mog for those whose attention span is only for a few minutes before the temptation to chew on the book become overwhelming. This book, then, is perfect. Great sturdy design with pages so stiff even an older child would have to try hard to destroy. Glossy sheet that can withstand a bit of dribbling. And bright, bold illustrations that are not too complicated for tiny eyes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008171173</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Matt Robertson|title=Super StanAnita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Stan is no ordinary little brotherSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, oh no, because Stan can run faster and throw further and jump higher than his big brother Jackher mind never on what she should be doing. Stan can also fly, of course! Poor Jack finds that even when he is helpful She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and kind, his little superhero brother can go she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one better, so when Jack finds someonerainy afternoon''<br>''s wallet on When all the houses cowered in the floor and returns itgloom, Stan captures a burglar in his car & carries ''<br>''To the car Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the police! oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. So when One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it is Jack's birthday he is hopeful that perhaps for just the one day, he will be where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the special one attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the familymidst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and Stan won't do anything to spoil his funtreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408337282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Fulton and Elina Ellis1782227741|title=Bossy Jonathan Fossy (The Ever So Series)Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Jonathan Fossy was ever so bossyOne day, demanding that his Mum bring him chocolate and gum and then paint his bedroom bright blue. He made demands of everyone, including the neighbours (a ten feet wide boat with Gold Ted falls into a cabin for him) and you might wonder why ''anyone'' put up with itpuddle. (I had in mind a sharp slap across the back of a couple of bare legs, but thatIt's probably illegal, albeit effective, these days.) Finally PC Moran hatched a dastardly plan: I'm not going to tell you what it was, but suffice it to say that he got his comeuppance in quite a most effective way deep puddle and was a decidedly more pleasant young man thereafterthe water is swirling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861869</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jeanne Willis Poor Ted starts to spin around and Tony Ross|title= Lucinda Belinda Melinda McCool|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Lucinda Belinda is extremely beautiful around and she feels it's her duty to bring beauty to the world. And if this means telling others to sort out their eyebrows, lose their big behinds, file their nails or just up their grooming generally then so be it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442026</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michelle Robinson|title= Goodnight Spaceman|rating= 3.5|genre= For Sharing|summary='Goodnight Spaceman' is sucked down a warm and tender look at space exploration told through drain on the eyes side of two young boys who have an astronaut for a Dadthe street. On the upside, this seems to mean that you get to keep moon rock Finding himself down in your bedroom. On the downsidesewer, space is too far Ted starts to reach out for a hugpanic. So, the boys blast off to see Dad's workplace before bed time. Not only is this topical when the International Space Station currently orbits with a British astronaut on board, there is an introductory letter from the great man himself, Tim Peake. Sounds like a winning formula when for so many tots space is the favourite frontier. I was eager to read this with my three year old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141365625</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lizzy Stewart|title= There's a Tiger in the Garden|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Though it's said that you should never judge a book by a cover, the front of OH HELP ME PLEASE'There's a Tiger in he cries and alerts the Garden' gives cause to linger. Here is a taste attention of Reg the splendid illustrations to come – verdant foliage, bright dragonflies, andsewer rat, who plucks him out of coursethe dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bright orange tigerbit like an old cricket bat. Should you not be convinced to pick it Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up by the visuals alone, the gorgeous embossing adds with a further dimension. Lovely pop-out richness you can feel. What a great startnice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808069</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr SeussB08R7LXQ9S|title=Horton and the Kwuggerbug Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and More Lost StoriesCaroline Siegal
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|summary=Going back Remy is feeling 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 revisiting characters once an author has died is small eyes. They are mean but they are not always the best idea, too often the result smacks of a cash in stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that does not have any of the charm of little bit further when the originalother kids are around. HoweverSo, when Remy reacts, revisiting lesser works by it looks as though he was the author is a different thinginstigator. If a fan has all And then he gets into trouble at school and the writerteachers don's books, but never managed t believe him when he tries to get their hands on their obscure short stories or tales written for magazines, a new collection may just work. Even for as eccentric an author as Dr Seussexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008131279</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet1471191303|title=Supertato Veggies Assemble|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= In the fight of good versus evil many superheroes stand out. Batman. Spiderman. And now, straight from the aisles of the supermarket, we have Supertato. He's a cape wearing, belt toting spud. Variety unknown. What I do know is that he's a huge hit in my toddler's nursery class and he's back for another battle against his arch enemy the evil pea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121003</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Invisible|author=Will Mabbitt and Fred Blunt|title=This Is Not A Bedtime StoryTom Percival|rating=35
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|summary=Anyone This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who has read 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 same story over inside of the window and over again to their child will have felt crept up the crushing feeling corner of mundanitythe bedpost. It's very tempting ' The family didn't go to hide that bland, the cinema or on holidays but popular, book they had each other and explain to your child that it must be lostthey were happy. The adult may feel like this, but once a child gets a little older, Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they too may feel had to move to the far side of the samecity. Why not interject a little more action into a tired story This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and make it anew?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014135738X</amazonuk>Isobel felt invisible.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Timothy Knapman Nick Jones and Laura HughesSi Clark|title=Goodnight TigerOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=It was the middle of the nightMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, but Emily could ''not'' sleep for the noiseis obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. There was bellowing and stomping and growling and trumpetingHer favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Brave girl that she wasEvery night, she got looks out of bed and looked out of the her bedroom window, thinking that the animals had escaped from the zoo, but the street was empty. Then she checked all the usual hiding places as well as her toy box - and suddenly realised that the noises were coming from says goodnight to the animals in her wallpaperbear statue outside. Emily's not just brave - she's resourceful too and Every morning she set about settling the jungle down for the night. And one solution turns out says hello to work just perfectly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848691866</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michelle Robinson and Emily Fox|title= Elephant's Pyjamas|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= I've read a lot of stories recently about animals who don't have many friendsBee Bear, at least at the beginning of their tale. For this age group it's pretty much a given colourful painted bear that by the last page they'll have lots of lovely companions with whom to spend their days. Elephant is not one of those unlucky souls, thoughlives at her school. He She even has TONS of friends and he's just been invited to a party with all of them. Lucky thing.bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007580037</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]