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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lynne Rickards and Lee WildishAdam Stower|title=Jacob O'Reilly Wants A PetMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Like many young childrenMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, Jacob O'Reilly Wants A Petone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. He But he'd love s a dog. A bad magician's cat would be great. Ooh, what about gerbils? Or an iguana? He's desperate for an animal to look afterso 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 mum into a world of frightening adventure and dad don't fancy the ideawhiffs. Then they suggest that he start This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a pet-sitting businesstroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and all hell breaks loose...he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034098838X</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Mara Bergman The Adventures of Birpus and Cassia ThomasBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Lively Elizabeth!Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Elizabeth 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 a lively little girlchasing them. She loves stomping around He's right behind them, spewing hot, making a racket and creating an awful kerfufflesour milk from his nostrils. One day she does the thing that she knows she should never do (Please don't try this at home: she pushes Joe Fitzhughit won't end well. Joe tumbles into Jonny, who knocks into another child) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and on when a ladder of moss and on 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 onGranny Cranny. Oh dear, Elizabeth! What have you done?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988045</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie Bethel and Alexandra ColomboB0CC9W7GLR|title=Litterbug Doug (A Michael Recycle Adventure)On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=Litterbug Doug lives 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 hill, just outside snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a beautiful townpolar bear. His home is an absolute dump As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with rubbish strewn everywherewobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, rats scurrying through but Teal knew that the mess, bear was hungry and gave him one apple and he won't tidy up his bloomin' bedroomthen another. It's disgusting. Utterly utterly disgusting. His mess spreads He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and spreads given a good meal and spreads and spreads. Thankfully, Michael Recycle is on hand somewhere to teach Doug the error of his wayssleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394151</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy M George and Rachel Swirles1913839656|title=The Elves and the ShoemakerLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=The shoemaker grows older 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 olderthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Where he once made She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the finest shoes in town, local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he's now struggling wanted to make ends meetnew friends. With At home, his only enough money for the leather for one pair of shoes, friend was his mum and he's on his last legswondered why that could be. He leaves the leather on the table, ready to assemble the next morning, but when Grandma thought that it might be because he comes down, the elves have made the most beautiful shoes everlooked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394135</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kari-Lynn Winters and Christina Leist1529504775|title=On My WalkThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=34.5
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|summary=A Elsie and her little girl is going for a walk 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 her mummy cerebral palsy and her dogeven just standing up was very difficult. They hear One day Elsie spotted a horse saying clippitybus in the toy shop window which would help David -clop and a frog saying frippity-fropwas happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. They enjoy all Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the sights bus for support, and sounds of walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the beautiful summer's daybus, now damaged and rusted, until it starts to rainthe Repair Shop, drippity-drop, drippity-drop..hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1896580610</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Lucas1529504767|title=Something To DoThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=The little bear is booooredSusan 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. He She needn's desperate for something t have worried though as she went to do, but he lives in a monochrome line worldthe 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 nothing around except the horizon, baking and a couple of simple seagulls. He when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the big bear go decorations on an adventure to amuse and entertain themselves, and then create new surroundings by drawing them with a stickthe Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337268</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Husband1916459943|title=Dear MissSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=ItMuch as mothers love their babies, there's Michaelsomething they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's first day back at school and so tired but he really doesncan't - or won't fancy sitting through maths - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and double geography''wails''. He writes a letter The sea offers to his teacherhelp. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, explaining that hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the secret service have recruited him to rescue a missing explorersound perfectly. Letter after letter of his adventures follow The mermaids join in - ''la lou, until Miss counters with la lay...'' And for a letter of her own.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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393732</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill Linder140639131X|title=Little Sapling|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Little Sapling is growing up, bit by bit. Like any plant, she stretches out into the sunlight. She competes with bindweed, and then is transplanted by a forester. On the way, she comes into contact with a number of animals, like Rabbit and Hedgehog.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312721</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Xavier Deneux|title=My CircusBriony May Smith
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|summary=An utterly gorgeous board book 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 everyone will love she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to pore over, from start with but the very youngest right on benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained upto provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807009</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Roffey1776574338|title=Bedtime (Slip-Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and-Slide Books)Bei Lynn
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|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'Bedtime's perfect, isn' t it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a pull-problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the-tabs book city: he's always having to be careful about - unsurprisingly - bedtime. Page by page reveals child after child rubbing their eyes, changing into their pyjamas, kissing mummy goodnight, where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and cuddling traffic regularly gets snarled up with teddy. Each pulled tab changes The school decides that picture, much like a before and after shothe can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599386</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Helmore and Karen Wall1776574028|title=Hold On Tight, Stripy Horse!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=Stripy Horse and his friends live in I love a bric-good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a-brac shop. One day, they discover that niche market: it's raining 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 ''insideplay''with words and make something quite different from each one. Ella, We have the pink flamingo umbrella, keeps them dry for elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a bit, but then she's caught by 'balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a gust of wind bath (complete with yellow duck) and Stripy Horse then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is pulled up a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into the aira ''sm....... Will they discover the source of the rain? Will the shop ever get dry again? And what'' OK, let's the deal with that weathervane parrot that keeps spouting proverbs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248262</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Shipton and Francesca Chessa1838226834|title=Baby Baby Blah Blah Blah!Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=Emily loves making listsIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. When her mummy gets pregnant, Emily makes a list of They're there to undo all the good things about a new babythat parents do, and another list of all so the bad thingstrips out were always so much fun. Emily's worried that she's A young boy was going to have to wear babygros to school and eat left-over squish. Her daddy decides to set her straight about what a new baby will mean.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337799</amazonuk>}}the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|authortitle=Mal Peet Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Elspeth Graham Hare|titleauthor=Cloud Tea MonkeysCordellya Smith
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|summary=Tashi and her mother live below a tea plantation in India. Usually Tashi goes along with her mum, and whilst mum picks tea leaves with When the other women, Tashi sits under a tree and plays with a group of monkeysworld was made, sharing her fruit with them, allowing them to groom her and playing with the little baby monkeysanimals were given gifts. One morning, Tashi's mum is too poorly to go to work, Bear was given strength so Tashi struggles with the big tea basket herselfthat he could become a protector. The plantation owner derides her, saying she is too little to pick the tea, and Tashi is worried about how she and her mother will cope with no money to get her mum Water Spider received a doctor, or to buy foodstrong web that even fire could not burn. She shares her worries with her monkey friends and somehow, at the end of Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the day, Tashi's basket is full of beautiful, fresh, fragrant tea leaves that are a very rare type of tea called present 'Cloud Tea'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406300926</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Conway and Dubravka Kolanovic|title=The Secret To Teddy's Happiness|rating=3' the future.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When the toys discover an old Rabbit developed intelligence - but, bedraggled teddy bearunfortunately, they rack their brains not the ability to find a way use it well. He liked to mend his broken heart, to make him smile againtrick other animals. The velvet rabbit who knows everything offers to tell them the secret of Teddy's happiness, but He was also jealous which was how he wants them came to do him be in a favour firstrace with Turtle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337624</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jill Newton|title=Crash Bang Donkey!|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Farmer Gruff spends all his time chasing the crows from his corn. Eventually he needs to sleep, so all the animals tiptoe around, making no noise whatsoever. What You might think that's this coming over the hill with not a crash fair contest but wait and a bang? Oh no! It's a donkey with a drumsee. Things are not always as they seem. How I's Farmer Gruff going to get his sleep? If he can't sleep, ll tell you how's he ever going to be able to keep the crows from his corn?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337209</amazonuk>it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Sperring and Leo TimmersRob Keeley|title=GreenCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4
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|summary=Clive Lily loves wearing greeneating fruit and vegetables. It's all he ever wearsShe likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. He thinks he looks mighty snazzyWhen her friends at school turn up their noses, but his big sister (boo! hiss!) takes every opportunity Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to call him a cabbageeat. One day, mosspoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, a sprout or a toadwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Clive keeps wearing his green clothesInfuriated, certain Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that he'll have fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the last laugh ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and get one over on his sistereveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845394534</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Whybrow and Lynne ChapmanB09FFJF8YS|title=StinkyYou Can't Wear Panties! Or How The Beautiful Smelly Warthog Found A Friend(No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=Stinky ''For the warthog lives in a neighbourhood with the Crocodile familybig, grownup girls out there, the Monkey family and the Littlebird family. One by one they invite Stinky round to play with their childrenpotty masters in training, but his foul odour and "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the flies buzzing around him cause all manner big-girl kind!) of problems. Will he be able to find a friend? ...Well, yes, it says so in the titletoilet triumph and persevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337594</amazonuk>}}''
And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allan Manham Justine Avery and Penny DannNaday Meldova|title=The Giant CarrotEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Jack is quite the gardenerToots, trumps, farts. All his hard work means his vegetable patch is awash with lucious veggiesWhatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. One day, he decides Funny to pull up some carrots talk about and make soupjoke about, but that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the biggest carrot just wouldn't budge. He's going to have to get some chums to help himwrong time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843625911</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz|title=Commotion In The Ocean|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=There's a commotion in the ocean: the dolphins are squeakingclass, the jellyfish are jigglingsay, when everyone will hear it and the lobsters are clippetty-clapping snippety-snappingeveryone will laugh. At you. Animal by animal, Giles Andreae (best-known for [[Giraffes CanJustine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'t Dance Magnet Book by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees|Giraffes Can't Dance]]) series takes us through the underwater adventuresaim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with shortthe familiar humour attached, snappy poemsexplains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408308452</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger HargreavesB09BG8V3Q6|title=Mr Nobody Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Mr Men Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Little Misses)Seema Amjad
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|summary=Mr Nobody ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' isthe latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery... well, he's somebody who sort This series of is and sort fun picture books aims to take the pain out of isn't. Mr Happy comes across him one day, potty training children and does his best to cheer him upreplace it with some fun. Who could possibly help a person whoIt's sort of there and sort of isn't? Aha worthy aim, the Wizard!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405251425</amazonuk>as any frustrated parent will tell you. .
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Mitton and Guy Parker-ReesB07GZ81J7C|title=Jolly Olly Octopus|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Jolly Olly Octopus is giggling underneath When Fred the sea. He's soon joined by two tickly turtles, three smiley seahorses, Snake Got Squished and so on through the numbers. The large cast of underwater animals are having a jolly ol' time, until a shark appears...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846166861</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMended|author=Ellie Sandall|title=BirdsongPeter Cotton
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|summary=One by one the birds land on the branchMeet Fred. Well, actually, 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. Each Fred is a different species, each has different plumage, snake and most importantly each has even those of us who have a different callphobia about snakes are going to warm to him. The chorus of birdsong builds up He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and up and up until the biggest bird immediately became part of all lands on the branchfamily, to the extent that they would take Fred out with his loud shriekthem when they went out for a walk. Ah, but who And that was where the problem started. Fred didn's this about to land on the branch with him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405247371</amazonuk>t have any road sense. Or brakes.
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|summary=Haggy Aggy is an unscary witch and decides she wants 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 make friends with dragonslearn about everything else when we are small. Her catWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, Rumblewick Spellwacker Mortimer Bsay, is a little unsure of this, so writes to his friend Grimey for advice. Their correspondence fills this latest book learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the ''Rumblewick Letters'' series, following on from [[My Unwilling Witch (The Rumblewick Letters) by Hiawyn Oram|My Unwilling Witch]].sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846160642</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Conway Justine Avery and Melanie WilliamsonNaday Meldova|title=The Great Nursery Rhyme DisasterNo, No, No!
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|summary=Little Miss Muffet is fed up of being constantly scared by a spider, so she ups sticks and heads for a different page of They say the book, to see if best picture books are the characters simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of another nursery rhyme will let her join in. She tries one rhyme after another, but things never quite work to plan. Will she find a nursery rhyme that suits her to a T?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340945087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Gravett|title=Blue Chameleon|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The chameleon is feeling blue because he's lonelythis latest from Justine Avery, so he goes and visits a yellow banana, pink cockatoo, swirly snail, brown boot, and so on. Each time, not only does he change his colour to match the object or animal, but he also contorts himself into a shape that matches them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230704247</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Inga Moore|title=Six Dinner Sid - A Highland Adventure|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sid the cat has six owners in six different houses, and he munches his way through six dinners a day. This big ol' greedyguts has a great life, but then one day his owners all decide they want to go on holiday. They consider putting him in a cattery, but they have strange rules like one meal per cat, not six. They give it some thought, and eventually decide to all go on holiday together, taking Sid with themBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988940</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Isadora194812467X|title=The Twelve Dancing PrincessesFarm Shop|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summaryauthor=Bookbag recently loved Rachel Isadora's take on [[The Night Before Christmas by Rachel Isadora and Clement Clarke Moore|The Night Before Christmas]], which put the classic Christmas poem in an African setting. This time roundDevon Avery, she has turned her eye to the Grimms' ''The Twelve Dancing Princesses''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0142414506</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Angela McAllister Justine Avery and Alex T Smith|title=My Mum Has X-Ray VisionEma Tepic
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|summary=Milo suspects Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his mum has x-ray visionsmart grey fur coat. She can see through As they walk to the top of the ceiling downstairs when he's jumping on her bed. She can hill, they see through the a big barn with a sign outside wall when he. It's making potions in the garden in her saucepans. Is she really a superhero? Milo puts her to farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the teststallholders 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>1407105388</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Kate Lum Sadie and Sue Hellardthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Princesses Are Not PerfectMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=Princesses AllieSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, Mellie and Libby love baking, gardening and building respectivelyher mind never on what she should be doing. The day before She lives by the big summer party, they suddenly fancy a change River Thames at Greenwich and all swap jobs. With a hundred punnets of blueberries she loves to pick, a hundred cupcakes to make, and a hundred chairs to build, the children are going to be awfully disappointed if the princesses' new-found interests aren't successfulspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599297</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie French and Bruce Whatley 1782227741|title=Emily Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and the Big Bad BunyipSasha Satha
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|summary=The author-illustrator partnership that created the One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It'Diary of s quite a Wombat', [[Pete deep puddle and the Sheep by Jackie French|Pete the Sheep]] water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and 'Josephine Wants to Dance' bring all their Aussie characters together in is sucked down a Christmas book with a Antipodean twist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007324278</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Graham Oakley|title=The Church Mouse|rating=4drain on the side of the street.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Arthur the church mouse lives Finding himself down in peace with Sampson the meek church catsewer, but he gets lonely from time Ted starts to timepanic. He hits on a great idea: ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he'll invite all cries and alerts the attention of Reg the other mice sewer rat, who plucks him out of the town to come and live with them. The parson agreesdirty water using his cane, as long as they agree to do which might look just a few odd jobs around the placebit like an old cricket bat. Then one day, Reg is a burglar breaks in kind soul and he dries Ted off and there's no-one around to stop warms him but Arthur, Sampson and the mice..up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1840116102</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janet Charters and Michael ForemanB08R7LXQ9S|title=The GeneralRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=General Jodhpur keeps Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his soldiers busysidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, polishing their boots calling him names because he is short and practising shootinghas small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. He wants They are careful to become wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the most famous general in the whole worldother kids are around. One daySo, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he's thrown off his horse, and discovers the joys of lying in was the grassinstigator. On his walk home, And then he gets a chance to smell into trouble at school and the flowers, and soon sets about putting his soldiers teachers don't believe him when he tries to more peaceful activitiesexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763648752</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Jackson and Keith Graves1471191303|title=Desert RoseThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=Desert Rose This is mucking out the pig stallsstory of Isobel, when she stumbles across a giant gold nuggetlittle girl who made a big difference. She decides to buy the fattest hog Isobel lived with her parents in Texas, so she can win first prize at the state fair a house - a gal's gotta have a dream. Howeververy cold house, she gets one highfalutin hog who wonbecause her parents couldn't do as it's told, so she ropes in all the other inhabitants of Laredo afford to help her out, and win put the prize.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802198</amazonuk>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Isadora Nick Jones and Clement Clarke MooreSi Clark|title=The One Night Before Christmasin Beartown
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|summary=Everyone knows Many children have an obsession and loves Clement Clarke Moore's poem ''A Visit From St Nicholas''. Even if you don't go the whole hogSandy Lane, gathering the family round by the log firewho lives in Beartown, and reading it together, its opening line of '''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouseis obsessed with bears.She collects books about bears..'' fills you with Her favourite toy is Berisford, a warm glowteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. You can practically smell the mulled wine Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and hear the snores of Auntie Gertrude during says goodnight to the Queen's Speechbear statue outside. It's an absolute classicEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399254080</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}