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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katie Cotton and Sarah JacobyAdam Stower|title= The Road HomeMurray and Bun|rating= 34.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary=The year Murray is winding downsupposed to be a humble, tidy and nature friendly cat, one who is beginning able to turn her thoughts again to wintersleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. As the leaves begin to changeBut he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and birds start to fly Souththe catflap they both use can chuck them out, animals throughout not into the forest are preparing for this change in seasonsregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This book follows their trials 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 tribulations as they all try he'll have to take the road that leads them home.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847808034</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton1732898766|title= Shifty McGifty The Adventures of Birpus and Slippery SamBulbus: Book One: The Spooky SchoolSour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating= 54|genre= For Sharing |summary= As a teacher When we first meet Birpus and a parent, one of Bulbus they're running for their lives in the main aims I have when it comes to reading is to promote a love Forest of reading in all children. This can of course in general be more challenging with boys. Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton have created a wonderful book with two familiar characters at the centreFine Repute. Their previous tales of Shifty McGifty were shorter books around 35 pages told though rhyme. However, their latest book, The Spooky School, at 124 pages, is perfect for greatest fear has come about: the maturing primary school student (approximately 6-9 years of age). If these children had experienced the earlier books, then there Sour Milk Dragon is a feeling that Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam have grown up with chasing them. Although this book will appeal to both boys and girls, boys will particularly enjoy these fun tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637010</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lari Don|title= The DragonHe's Hoard|rating= 3.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= If you ask anyone to name a Viking storyright behind them, legend or talespewing hot, my money would be on ''Beowulf''sour milk from his nostrils. However, (Please don't try this at home: it is not clear whether this was an Anglo-Saxon or Viking tale. Try further and search on Amazon for Viking sagas for children and you won't get very farend well. ) Until nowFortunately, that is. Lari Don has written they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a collection ladder of stories which bring tales from this historical era to lifemoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. Most primary schools study Vikings as a topicThey climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, so it is surprising that there are so few quality stories around for this age groupNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806813</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate PrendergastB0CC9W7GLR|title=Dog on a DiggerOn the Beach: The Tricky IncidentWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=I'm going Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to tell you a story about Dogbe at home, Manbored but warm, Lady or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the Pupshoreline. They all work on an industrial site - in fact Dog and Man live there in On top of the ice was a caravan and Man drives the sort of digger which is dreamed about by boys large and smallpolar bear. Lady and As the ice bumped onto the Pup run sand, the snack bar bear woke and one day as they're all having something to eat, with wobbly legs moved from the Pup goes missingice. Man and Lady search everywhere but it's Dog's sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in Kit was all for making a branch over a fast-flowing stream. And run for it's Dog who works out how to rescue him. I needed 88 words to tell you that story, but Kate Prendergast does it without using a single Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one - apple and she tells it in a far more engaging way than I could ever manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646148</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sebastien Braun|title=Can You Say It Too? Brrr! Brrr!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=What most parents don't tell you is that they only have children for their own entertainment – the little tykes can be hilarious funnythen another. One fun area is when a baby starts to learn words – DaDa, MaMa. Soon they pick up seemingly random words – Light! Yallow! (I think that is meant He obviously needed to be hello). Once they start looking intently at your lips as you speak you can start taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to guide them to words that you want them to usesleep. For example, what language skills What else would they require if they visited Antarcticayou do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637177</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothee de Monfreid1913839656|title=A Day With DogsLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=I couldn't resist a book entitled ''A Day With Dogs''Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because it's my idea she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of heaven, dungarees and his favourite hat and I was intrigued by the subtitle ''What Do Dogs Do All Day?'' then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Well, when you open the book you'll get an answer She had promised to take him to that question, although it certainly won't be the one that you're expecting: these dogs are in cars, on skis, in Friday Night Club at the kitchenlocal community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, at the doctor his only friend was his mum and in lots more placeshe wondered why that could be. There's a hint to the style of the book in the dedication: ''for [[:Category:Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]]''Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570987</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yu-hsuan Huang1529504775|title=Sing Along With Me: We Wish You a Merry ChristmasThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=I'm not normally a great fan Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of Christmas-themed books: after the day theypark but David couldn're a bit old hat t - for the adults if not for the children, but he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just occasionally something comes along that's so well done that an exception can be madestanding up was very difficult. As soon as I touched ''We Wish You One day Elsie spotted a Merry Christmas'' I could feel bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the quality: coins from her money box to pay for it's a chunky board book with added extrasas cash was tight at home. The fun starts on Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the cover: there's a slider (look bus for the red ring with the yellow arrows) which makes a penguin (I think!) support, and a fox appear and disappear from walk behind a Christmas treeit. As Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the animals move you can see pictures of two more animals playing in Repair Shop, hoping that the snowexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857636782</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Lamellia: The Kingdom of MushroomsChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Gloria D GonsalvesAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=Lamellia is a kingdom 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 mushrooms lying deep within a forest. It is ruled by PolipoliMr and Mrs Russell, its big brown kingwho couldn't have been kinder to her. One day, a group from his mushroom army finds a human baby abandoned in the forest She even had her own room - all to herself. The baby is hungry Gradually she relaxed and cryingbegan to enjoy her life. What will She'd help Mrs Russell with the mushrooms do? Will they reject the baby as a member of a hostile species? Or will they take care of baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and accept it as one of their own? They choose Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the latter option, but how will a kingdom of mushrooms take care of a human baby? By working together, of course!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634972</amazonuk>following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beatrix Potter and Quentin Blake1916459943|title=The Tale of Kitty-in-BootsSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=At night a seriousMuch as mothers love their babies, wellthere's something they all dread -behaved and (leta squeakily baby. He's be honest) rather so tired but he can't - or won'superiort - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails'' young black cat goes out hunting. Well, if weThe sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing 're being 'hush, hush'totally'' honest, there's . Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a little bit of poaching in there toosandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. By day she is Miss Catherine St QuintinThe mermaids join in - ''la lou, although her owner calls her Kittyla lay... Other cats call her ''Q And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '', or 'shouts'Squintums'', but they are very common cats and Kitty's owner would have been scandalised had she known that there was an acquaintance. The reaction would have been even stronger had she known that Miss Kitty went out in a gentlemanwe know exactly what's Norfolk jacket and fur-lined boots. With a gungoing to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247594</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Donald and Alex Willmore140639131X|title=The New Libearian|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=For a job that often deals with words, Librarian is not an easy thing to spell. I often drop one of the Rs and end up with Libarian and that just will not do. One simple spelling mistake can make a word take on a whole new meaning; what would possibly happen if you spelt it Libearian? Is it a mistype, or does the person behind the Help Desk look a little hairy to you? What big paws you have Libearian – all the better to stamp your books with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862237</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Jill Murphy|title=Meltdown!Briony May Smith
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|summary=Before I say a word about this book, I want Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to offer a few words of reassurancecross the Old Oak Road. Firstly, we've all been there, cringing, trying She wrote to pretend that itthe mayor about the problem but didn's not your childt even get a reply. Secondly, it doesnPhilippa wasn't mean that you're a bad parent - or, if you are, so is everybody else. Finally bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there is nothing wrong with your childwas a problem which needed solving: they've just got a dose she saw the benefits of the terrible twos (or threes) or lollipop lady at the frightful foursschool crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. It will passHer uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. Honestly. Right? Are you ready All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to read on now? Good. Just take it steadilyprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406327913</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bhakti Mathur1776574338|title=Amma, Tell Me About DiwaliLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=Klaka had celebrated Diwali and it had been great fun - a wonderfulEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, beautiful day and tonight makes his way through the city is lit , picking up by thousands and thousands of lightschildren as he goes. Amma and daddy had given many gifts Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to their boy and Klaka go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his brother had lit the earthen oil lamps known as diyasneck. They didnIt's perfect, isn't just eat and have it? What could be a good time - they also offered their prayers for good fortune, prosperity and health to Ganesha, the God more fun way of new beginnings and going to Lakshmischool? There is a problem, the Goddess of wealththough. But Klaka was curiousLeilong isn't happy in the city: ''Amma'' he said, ''tell me s always having to be careful about Diwaliwhere he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881502888</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lou Treleaven and Maddie Frost 1776574028|title=The Snowflake Mistake Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=Princess Ellie lives in an ice palace that floats high in the sky. Her mum I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the Snow Queen and they child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have a very special machine realise that collects clouds you can ''play'' with words and turns them into snowflakesmake something quite different from each one. The machine works perfectly until We have the day that Princess Ellie is left in charge – the machine breaks elephant who dons a tutu - and Ellie has to find another way of making snowflakes. Luckily her friends the birds are able to help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862180</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Oliver Jeffers|title= An Alphabet|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Some might say you only ever need one alphabet book in becomes a home''balletphant''. Considering we have half The buffalo who has had a dozen bath (complete with yellow duck) and, as it happens, no little ones in the house) I would counter this then dries off with a question: how many words are there in the world? Because when you only get one for each letter, you may find hair drier becomes a simple book of 26 entries may not be enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008182515</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Judith Kerr|title= Mog Time|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=''Mog Timefluffalo'' . The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a compendium of six stories ''crynoceros'' (think about the beloved cat. It is a beautiful, heavy hard back book which means it is perfect for reading together. !) The pages are large so everyone can crowd round and have pelican who sits on his potty changes into a look''sm..... It might be a little tricky for smaller hands to manage but that..'' OK, let's not a problem as these go there Some people are much better for reading aloud and enjoying together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008183317</amazonuk>eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Plenderleith1838226834|title=The Snowman Strikes Back|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=It's not easy being a snowman, you know - particularly when you are made by Ernest Green-Bogle, who delights in tormenting you. Sometimes he'd make you upside down or looking like a pig (it's just plain ''undignified'', you know). That's not the worst of it. He has been known to attack snowman with a hairdryer, feed his carrot nose to a rabbit and even encase him in a block of ice. The snow clown was ''not'' funny and the snow ice cream cone even less so. But one day everything changed when Ernest came home and there was a big boy with him. Ernest had a black eye and Carried Away With the big boy was threatening him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613932</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCarnival|author=Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart |title=Little Monster and the Spooky PartyEd Boxall
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|summary=There are spooky things happening in the world It was one of books for children that can only mean one thing; Halloween is around the cornerthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. There are books for Christmas, Easter and They're there to undo all the August Bank Holidaygood that parents do, so why not some for the scary holiday? trips out were always so much fun. After all, themes such as ghosts and skeletons are far easier A young boy was going to write about than traffic jams on the M6 and spending time carnival with your in-laws. One little monster has been invited to the type his Grandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of spooky party that may just entertain your own little monstermy hand. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277424</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Mike Brownlow Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Simon RickertyHare|titleauthor=Ten Little MonstersCordellya Smith
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|summary=Halloween is a strange eventWhen the world was made, it has been increasingly Americanised and sold to children as a fun day of scary activities and sweetsthe animals were given gifts. However, if you think about it, dressing your child as an undead bride or blood sucking vampire actually seems Bear was given strength so that he could become a little oddprotector. These are the same kids Water Spider received a strong web that get scared when Brian Blessed shouts on TV, yet they are happy to cover themselves in fake bloodeven fire could not burn. Creating a book Owl had excellent sight so that is Halloween themed is a balance of making it exciting, but not scary; sometimes he could see the books can be both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334038</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Brendan Wenzel|title=They All Saw A Cat|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=If I told you that present ''They All Saw A Catand'' is a children's picture book about perceptionthe future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, you might be forgiven for thinking that toddlers were taking their pleasures a little sadly these days: you might be slightly mollified when I added in that not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also about the natural world, but it's much better that I just tell you jealous which was how he came to be in a little bit about the content and I'm sure that you'll understandrace with Turtle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452150133</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|title= Ada Twist, Scientist|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= The first thing you must know about Ada Marie is the way she said nothing until the day she was three. Now You might think that's a way to pique your interest from the start. After all what sort of child does not speak until she turns three? In this case it's a very smart little girl.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721372</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jools Bentley|title= The Hippopandamouse|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= When the princess comes to your shop, everyone stands to attention, fair contest but wait and Fluffley's Fine Toys is no exceptionsee. In preparation, the staff work hard to ensure everything is perfect Things are not always as they seem. The floor is clean, the shelves neat and tidy, a place for everything and everything in its place. And if anything doesn I't meet these exacting stands then POOF! It's off to the Unstitcher room. There is no room for anything less than perfection herell tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447288904</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Oliver JeffersRob Keeley|title=What's the Opposite?Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4
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|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When a child her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is very young keen to explain how good they don't have the ability to grasp what their hands are, never mind complex matters of State, but eventually they all must start for you and how nice to learneat. One way to achieve this is day, poor Lily gets tricked by reading fun books about Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the alphabet or numbersteacher, but not all concepts are as clear as letters who explains that fruits grow on trees and numbersvegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. What about the concept of opposites? How do you define Jordan says, "I did try to a 16 month year old why one thing is opposite to the other? Thankfullytell her, you don't need to know the answer as the Hueys are on hand to help in their usual irreverent wayMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007420722</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie BlakeB09FFJF8YS|title=Super RabbitYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=We do love a good Stephanie Blake story ''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in our housetraining, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and since wepersevering panty pride.''ve pretty much worn out   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 'Stupid Baby'she' we were very happy to give Simon's newest adventure a gocan wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Simon Neither can the rabbit is not just any old rabbitflowers, he is Super Rabbitnor the fish, of course, complete with cape nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and mask! He is brave, he is bold, he is adventurous and, oh my goodness, he has got a splinter…she wants everyone to know it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579564</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maudie Powell-Tuck Justine Avery and Richard SmytheNaday Meldova|title=The Messy BookEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=When cat makes Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a big mess, hechild that doesn'd rather come up with any idea than tidy it up! He tries t find them irresistibly funny. Funny to get rid of his mess in various different waystalk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, unsuccessfullysay, until there is no other option but to tidy up properlywhen everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. ItJustine Avery's a latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar scenario for many familieshumour attached, Iexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''m sure, and told here with a great deal of charm!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184869279X</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah GoodreauB09BG8V3Q6|title=The World-Famous Book of Magical NumbersWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary= If you are very lucky, ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the act of reading feels just like magic. You pick up a book and your imagination takes you on adventures you could never have latest release in the real world''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. You should try This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and start this magic replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as early as possible and one way is to use interactive books, babies love to grab tabs or lift flapsany frustrated parent will tell you. You may even stumble across a book all about numbers that provides this magical feeling for your child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704640</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David MellingB07GZ81J7C|title=D is for DuckWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=DuckMeet Fred. Well, the magicianactually, 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 giving a demonstration snake and even those of his magical skills, conjuring up us who have a wide variety of items from his top hatphobia about snakes are going to warm to him. Things begin normally enough with He arrived as a present in a bunny, but box with lizards holes so that he could breathe and lions and dragons following on soon after duck finds immediately became part of the family, to the extent that perhaps his magic is getting they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a little out of hand!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444931091</amazonuk>walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lou Kuenzler Justine Avery and David WojtowyczNaday Meldova|title=Eat Your PeopleEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Monty the monster is having his dinnerCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. He is eating all of his vegetables without any problems at allBut really, but when why shouldn't it comes be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to eating up his people he really isnlearn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't happypotty training be as much fun as, declaring them to be chewy say, learning about why the sun and crunchy and full of bones! In a funny twist on the picky eater story, this is a lighthearted way of broaching moon take turns in the tricky 'eat your vegetables' issue!sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509801596</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane HisseyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title= Happy Birthday Old BearNo, No, No!|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= It's Old Bear's birthday, and so all They say the other toys best picture books are planning somethingthe simplest ones. In fact lots And nothing could be truer of somethings: gifts, a cakethis latest from Justine Avery, a proper celebrationBookbag favourite. It 's wonderful. Elsie the elephant has even 'No, No, No!'made'' him a present, is based around the talented little thingsimplest text imaginable. But then ''No, as we soon find outno, Elsie is good at many things: wrapping presentsno! Okay, baking cakes, blowing up balloonsokay. Yes, singingyou may. It'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a lovely sunny day, veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the toys gather outside but just as they finish setting things up, and just as Old Bear arrives, disaster strikes! Can the toys have a happy ending and find time to finish Old Bear's party?.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910706728</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie Morris194812467X|title=One CheetahThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, One Cherry: A Book of Beautiful NumbersJustine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Once you've seen anything illustrated by Jackie Morris you know that you'll get Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a book full of pictures, walk. Kirelle is dressed for all of which you'd be delighted weathers in her bright yellow wellies and proud Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to hang on your wallsthe top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. ''One, Cheetah, One Cherry: A Book of Beautiful Numbers'It' s a farm shop! But this is no exception. We begin a farm shop with just a difference: all the one cherrystallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, so red goats and shiny you are tempted to see if it's realchickens, but you're put off by the next pictureand even some mice. The one cherry is joined by one cheetah Excited, Kirelle and he's got a proprietorial paw resting across the shoulder of the cherry. You're not going to argue with himSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959286</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Jimmy Fallon Sadie and Miguel Ordonezthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=What will your babySadie's first word mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be? doing. If it is up She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the fatherhouses cowered in the gloom, ''<br>''To the answer is DadaMaritime Museum''. Every time Mum has her Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back turned Dad is repeating the word Dada, Dada, Dada, Dadaregularly. This secret war has waged for centuries One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and Jimmy Fallon missed the closing bell and Miguel Ordonez have put it to paperthe attendant's warning shout. Do you want to know what my childrenWhen she woke (hard floors don's first word t make comfy beds) she was? Dadain the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, of coursemermaids and treasure. I win!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444931431</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Timo Parvela1782227741|title= Bicycling to the MoonLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Bicycling to One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the Moon water is a series of short stories which all centre swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around two main characters: Purdy the cat and Dexter the dog who live together in is sucked down a sky-blue house drain on the top side of a hillthe street. Finding himself Purdy is a somewhat selfish cat who demonstrates rather impulsive behaviour and is always rushing arounddown in the sewer, whereas Baxter is much more refined, thoughtful Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and is careful to make alerts the attention of Reg the right choices. Each story works as an individual tale which could be read sewer rat, who plucks him out of order; however there the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a seasonal progression to the order kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of the bookbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570324</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam LloydB08R7LXQ9S|title=Boris BabysitsRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary= Leaving your child Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with someone for the first time his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is a daunting task for any new parentshort and has small eyes. You want They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to pick someone for this task wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that you can trust; a sensible person who has some experience looking after a babylittle bit further when the other kids are around. Perhaps a parentSo, when Remy reacts, sibling or a good friend? The person that you are unlikely to pick is Borisit looks as though he was the instigator. Not only is And then he irresponsible, gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he also happens tries to be a monsterexplain what happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704152</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Fox and Christyan Fox1471191303|title=A Dog Called BearThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Lucy had always wanted This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a dog and shevery cold house, because her parents couldn'd been preparing for t afford to put the moment when her dreams could come true for a long timeheating on: she ''d read all Ice curled across the inside of the books, bought doggie things window and her bedroom was plastered with doggie picturescrept up the corner of the bedpost. One day she set out '' The family didn't go to make her dream come true: accosting animals the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and presenting her credentials (there really is no other way of explaining it..they were happy.) First up, a frog, who presents Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the counter arguments house and they had to move to dog ownership and then makes his own case, adding that he would only need a bath every daythe far side of the city. Lucy's sorryThis part of the city was cold, but she only has a showersad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571329446</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Nick Jones and Si Clark
|title=One Night in Beartown
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|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!
|isbn=B08NFH7H9X
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