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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__ {{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=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 Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=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 snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=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 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, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=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 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=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''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 problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. 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 ''sm.......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:

''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingsummary="15" When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. <!Rabbit developed intelligence -- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley<|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!-- Wills -->|-rating= 4|genre=For Sharing| stylesummary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;I did try to tell her, Miss!"and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik[[image:1911167022.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911167022/ref5|genre=nosim?tagFor Sharing|summary=thebookbag''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-21]]girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''

And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova| styletitle="vertical-alignEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the 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!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: top; text''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|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!'' is the latest release in 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 worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-alignFred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: left;"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 him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.}}{{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=[[Gillie Can Share by Sarah-leigh Wills]]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 learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHH}}{{Frontpage|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=No, No, No!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|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.

[[image:4''No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]

Gillie the rabbit is baking cookies with Daddy. We might think they look most appetising (they're shaped liked carrots and rabbits, you know) but Gillie is really taken by the way that they smell. Lips are being licked. Does she dive in and eat them? 'No, she doesn't There are eight cookies. Two - a carrot and a rabbit - are for Grandma and Gillie hops off to deliver them. Another two are for Grandpa and then there are two for Mummy. Now there are just two left and Daddy gives them to Gillieno, but Gillie is a kindno! Okay, generous and thoughtful rabbit and whilst she eats one cookieokay. Yes, a rather scrumptious looking rabbit is offered to the readeryou may. I wanted to hug her! [[Gillie Can Share by Sarah-leigh Wills|Full Review]]''

<!-- Fegan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0648101908.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0648101908/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Don't Ever Look Behind Door 32 by B C R Fegan and Lenny Wen]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Mr Nicholas Noo is the host of the magical Hotel of Hoo and heThat's just welcoming his very first guests. They're going to be in room number one and it looks very comfortable with a cosy fire and comfortable bed. ! But Mr Noo is a considerate host and he shows his guests around , like all the hotel. There's only one rule: don't ever look behind door 32. Nowbest picture books, you're going to wonder about what, exactly this tiny snippet of text is in room 32, because we'll see some exciting and wonderful things as you move from room 2 to room 31. Forget expensive theme parks: you'd be a veritable tardis - so much better off going to bigger on the inside that it appears on the Hotel of Hoooutside. [[Don't Ever Look Behind Door 32 by B C R Fegan and Lenny Wen|Full Review]] <!-- Pankhurst -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pankhurst_Women.jpg|left|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408878909/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1638820457}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"194812467X|title===[[Fantastically Great Women Who Made History by Kate Pankhurst]]===The Farm Shop[[image:5star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]Devon Avery, [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors Justine Avery and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them. [[Fantastically Great Women Who Made History by Kate Pankhurst|Full Review]]<br><!-- Gonsalves -->Ema Tepic|-| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4[[image:Gonsalves_Queen.jpg|left|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546287663/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] For Sharing| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lamellia: The Wicked Queen by Gloria D Gonsalves]]=== [[image:4starKirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Lamellia Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is a kingdom of mushrooms perfectly turned out as ever in a land far awayhis smart grey fur coat. Many types and colours As they walk to the top of mushroom live there and the hill, they are all ruled over by King PoliPoli, see a big brown mushroom who is barn with a wise and kind leadersign outside. King PoliPoli It's a farm shop! But this is married to the beautiful Queen Nobilia. But Queen Nobilia cannot conceive a baby and this makes her very sad. She sings farm shop with a sad song so emotive that her sorrow infects difference: all the whole landstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. [[Lamellia: The Wicked Queen by Gloria D Gonsalves|Full Review]]<br><br> <!-- Seuss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Seuss_Read.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008240019?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0008240019]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I Can Read With My Eyes Shut by Dr Seuss]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Emerging Readers| Emerging Readers]]There are sheep and ducks and cows, [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] ''The more that you readgoats and chickens,''<br>''The more things you will knowand even some mice.''<br>''The more that you learnExcited,''<br>''The more places you'll Kirelle and Sam goshopping.'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to the joys of reading. [[I Can Read With My Eyes Shut by Dr Seuss|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Campbell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Campbell_Bog.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1546282718?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1546282718]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Adventures of Billy Bog Brush!: The Fire Brigade by Ian Campbell and Tim Constable]]===

[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Billy Bog Brush's family have gone out for the day, leaving him staring out of the window at the lovely weather outside and wondering what he could do to pass the time. Suddenly, he hears a desperate cry for help. Mrs Brown's house is on fire, the key is inside, and her little boy Tommy is locked in. Tommy is in terrible danger and what if the fire brigade doesn't arrive in time? [[The Adventures of Billy Bog Brush!: The Fire Brigade by Ian Campbell and Tim Constable|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Donald -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Donald_Pirates.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848862474?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1848862474]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Pirates in Classroom 3 by Alison Donald and Ben Whitehouse]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Not all of us were the child that paid attention in class. Some would look out of the window and let their minds wander. Why be stuck in a stuffy room when you could be in space or on the high seas? Sometimes you do not need to seek adventure as it may just find you. It makes perfect sense to me that if the teacher leaves the classroom there is ample time for a pirate to enter and ask all the children to help him find some lost treasure. Who could possibly give up this opportunity? [[Pirates in Classroom 3 by Alison Donald and Ben Whitehouse|Full Review]] <!-- Thorp -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Thorp_Elephant.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783707739/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Elephant in the Room by James Thorp and Angus Mackinnon]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Somebody has smashed Father Giant's elephant. Who on earth could it be? Can Father Giant unravel the mystery of what happened, and who What will face being banished from the house forever once he discovers the truth? Told in a rhyme that gets more and more surreal as it goes along, this is a wild and brightly illustrated mystery story, with an interesting moral at the end. <!-- Bakos -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Miller_Rooster.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1848862822/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rooster Wore Skinny Jeans by Jessie Miller and Barbara Bakos]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] One of the best things about modern online shopping is the knock on the door and the parcel arriving. What was it I ordered again? It could be something as exciting as a new toy, or something as boring as a new mixer for your shower. The anticipation of opening the box is as close to the feeling of Christmas that an adult is going to get (except perhaps for Christmas). Rooster has ordered something online and it arrived quickly. Will his farmyard pals appreciate his they buy as much as he does? [[Rooster Wore Skinny Jeans by Jessie Miller and Barbara Bakos|Full Review]] <!-- Graham -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Graham_How.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1406373451/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[How the Sun Got to Coco's House by Bob Graham]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] A tale of small moments: sunlight on a sailor's cap as he sets out on an early-morning fishing expedition, a rainbow after a shower and a glint of light in a whale's eye. While Coco sleeps, curled up snugly in her bed, creatures and people across the world are waking up to the sun. It chases the night away across the globe, until at last a bright ray finds its way to Coco's window and wakes her to another day of fun and laughter as she plays outside in the snow. [[How the Sun Got to Coco's House by Bob Graham|Full Review]] <!-- Haworth -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Haworth_Beauty.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783704578/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Beauty and the Beast by Katie Haworth and Dinara Mirtalipova]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] We all know the story of beauty and the beast. A prince, transformed in to a monster for his cruel and malicious nature, trapped in his grotesque form seemingly for the rest of his days. Then comes along a young woman, the beauty of the story, who mellows the beast's harsh character and grows to love him for who he is, and not because of his appearance. It's a fairy tale of old and a story of love crossing boundaries which has been adapted countless times both on screen and in literature. So is this new retelling worth the read? I think so, because I loved it. [[Beauty and the Beast by Katie Haworth and Dinara Mirtalipova|Full Review]] <!-- Snicket -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Snicket_Bad.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783446420/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Bad Mood and the Stick by Lemony Snicket and Matthew Forsythe]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] As the title suggests, this is a story about a bad mood and a stick. The bad mood (an emoji-like cloud character) moves from one character to another, travelling all around the world and causing unpredictable consequences. The stick is just a stick and does very little other than providing a home for a cocoon that gives birth to butterfly. The stick's final home in the window of the ice cream shop does, however, put the shop owner, Bert, in a good mood. [[The Bad Mood and the Stick by Lemony Snicket and Matthew Forsythe|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS POINT -->|} {{newreview|author= Sean Taylor and Claire Alexander|title= The Snowbear|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= There's a sense of wonder and stillness about fresh-fallen snow, whatever your age. Sounds are muffled, familiar objects and places are transformed, and the possibility of magic hangs in the frosty air. And for Iggy and Martina, playing outside on just such a winter's day, reality swiftly turns into enchantment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David Melling|title= Merry Christmas, Hugless Douglas|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= Hugless Douglas is a large, comfy sort of bear who burst onto the picture book scene a few years ago as he searched for just the right sort of hug. His endearing, hopeful face and that chubby (to put it politely) body instantly melted young hearts, and to universal delight we have since been treated to several more of his adventures. Douglas is hugless no longer, you'll be glad to know, but the name stuck, mostly because it's such fun to say (go on, try it!) and because he still bumbles through life embracing everything in sight as if cuddles are about to go out of fashion. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444906844</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Sue Hendra Sadie and Paul Linnetthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Supertato: Evil Pea RulesMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=For all their heroics and lantern jawsSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, everyone knows that the good guy is her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the best thing about a book River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or filmgazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. That accolade goes She'd love to sail the bad guyoceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. They One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are able to chew on show) and missed the scenery closing bell and give the type of larger than life performance a hero could only dream ofattendant's warning shout. One When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of the best bad guys an adventure that she could never have imagined in children's fiction is not a guy at all, but a pea. An evil pea. At last this pea is given his opportunity to shineworld of dolphins, but where there is an Evil Peapirates, a Supertato cannot be far behindmermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471144062</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers1782227741|title=Luna Loves Library DayLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha

|summary=Luna is always excited when library One day comes around, not just because she gets to take her books back and borrow some new ones, but also because itGold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the day she spends with her dadwater is swirling. Once inside Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the library, magical things occur as side of the books Luna and her dad discover seemingly come to lifestreet. Finding himself They spend their time together sharing stories, some that are more significant than othersdown in the sewer, until it's time for Luna Ted starts to go homepanic. Yet even once she's home, she still has her newly borrowed books to escape into, 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the memories sewer rat, who plucks him out of her day with her dadthe dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445483</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Ritchie and Marisa Morea|title= The Twelve Dogs of Christmas|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Christmas Reg is approaching a kind soul and one little puppy is very excited about his first ever Christmas Day. Everywhere he looks the preparations are underway dries Ted off and warms him up with every dog in town helping outa nice bowl of broth. However will so many eager assistants joining in the fray help or hinder and will everything ever be ready in time?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471166171</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr SeussB08R7LXQ9S|title=What Was I Scared Of?Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=All HallowsRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again'' Eve . The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is upon us once more short and that can only has small eyes. They are mean that we but they are not stupid. They are soon careful to be surrounded by all types of monsters, ghoulies wind up Remy when nobody can see and manifestationsthen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. Fear notSo, when Remy reacts, it looks as many of these unsettling creatures will actually be children dressed up on another adventure trick or treatingthough he was the instigator. But And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what about that pair of seemingly malevolent trousers that walk by themselves? That is no child, but a pair of haunted keckshappened. Run, run, run, but perhaps if you have them a friendly hello these pants may be nicer than you think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008252602</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Morag Hood1471191303|title=I Am BatThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=Bat This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a creature big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very definite opinions. He does not like morningscold house, for example, but he does like cherries. In fact, he really loves cherries, as they are his because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''favourite Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of all things!the bedpost.'' What do you think might happen if somebody takes Bat The family didn's cherries? t go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Bat wonThen the day came when they couldn't be happyafford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, will he?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509834613</amazonuk>sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.

{{newreview|author=Kes Gray and Jim Field|title=Oi Cat!|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When did children's books become so Meta? Back in the day each Thomas the Tank Engine adventure was separate from the other as if they lived in their own episodic wildness, but not today. In this world of Nintendo Switches and online platforms the average adult is too scared to venture onto, we have metaphysical children books. Books that reflect back Move on previous outings in the series. If you are going to get the most out of ''Oi Cat!'', you best know about your ''Oi Frog!'' and ''Oi Dog!'' too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444932519</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]