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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Alan Durant and Simon Rickerty|title=Unfortunately|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=One day a boy is walking through the jungle. Unfortunately, a lion tries to get him. Fortunately, he escapes. Unfortunately, a huge snake is poised to snaffle him up. Fortunately... and on and on it goes, with good news followed by bad followed by good. Ok, so that might make it sound a little simple and boring, but trust me: it's fantastic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309890</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WormellAdam Stower|title=Molly Murray and the Night MonsterBun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Molly Murray is in bed, but then she hears a creak on the stair. Could it be an elephant or a rhino coming supposed to get her? Might it even be a night monster? Luckilyhumble, Molly tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well-armed with her monster catcher, so should be alright, as whatever takes his fancy next of the door sloooowly inches opentwo...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862301859</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daisy Dawes|title=Get Ahead Fred|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Fred loves wearing hats. He But he's got a fezbad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a bonnethyperactive 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 stetsonViking land, and where a glittery fedora. When the Queen announces she's coming troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to townbe honest, he decides to get the finest hat but he's ever had. Thereturned up and he's no possible way that anything could go wrong, is there? ...Is there?ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848860404</amazonuk>0008561249
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Fine and Ruth Brown1732898766|title=Ruggles|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Every dog owner has known a dog like Ruggles: they're so good at escaping from where ever they are that they're generally known as Houdini. Ruggles had it all worked out, from the opportunist hop over the fence aided by a pile The Adventures of newspapers, a bucket Birpus and the rabbit hutch to who would snitch on him if he met them (unaccompanied) in the park. Bulbus: Book One: The dog lady knows him well and whilst you wouldn't quite call them friends it's obvious that Ruggles knows when he's met his match and hops in the van without complaint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392064</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSour Milk Dragon|author=Jan Fearnley|title=Arthur Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and the MeaniesIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Arthur When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the elephant Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is desperate to playchasing them. He's right behind them, but the monkeysspewing hot, Tiger, Peacock and Cheetah all say nosour milk from his nostrils. The big meanies (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. Oh sure) Fortunately, they're happy to be his friend were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they want something from him, but as soon as escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they don't need him any morelived with their Grand Wees, they just scamper off Nester Nook and leave him sadGranny Cranny. Go on, Arthur, give 'em a soaking! Teach 'em a lesson!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405253819</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Yeoman and Quentin BlakeB0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Bear's Water PicnicWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=3.5
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|summary=It's a gorgeous summer's dayKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, so the pigbored but warm, hen, squirrel, hedgehog or frozen cold and bear all head out building sand sculptures on a raft for snowy beach when a picnic in large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the middle shoreline. On top of the lakeice was a polar bear. They're disturbed by As the ''awrk awrk'' of ice bumped onto the frogssand, so paddle off to the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a different part of the lakerun for it, but when they get stuck, they discover Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the benefits of working together bus and given a good meal and making new friendssomewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390045</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross1913839656|title=Old DogLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=The Young Pups don't want to go and see Grandpa - all he does is talk Todd was excited about spending the pastweekend 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 breath stinks, button collection to show his false teeth fall out all grandmother. She had promised to take him to the time, Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he doesn't know how wanted to play all their make new gamesfriends. Their mother reminds them At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that he's really kind and they visit him after allcould be. When there, they discover Grandma thought that Grandpa wasn't always an old fuddy duddy, and actually there's plenty of excitement lurking under the surface if they just take the trouble to get to know himit might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708805</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David McKee1529504775|title=Elmer and Grandpa Eldo|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Elmer the patchwork elephant is back, and this time he's visiting Grandpa Eldo. Elmer reminds Eldo of all the things they did together when Elmer was really little, but Eldo can't remember them The Toy Bus (or so he saysThe Repair Shop Stories) so Elmer keeps reminding him and reminding him, as they revisit old haunts. Grandpa and grandson, sorry, grandelephant, spend a lovely day together, enjoying one another's company.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708392</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Foreman|title=Dinosaur Time|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Tom's mum has just bought a new timer for the kitchen. It's not a toy, so she tells Tom not to touch it. However, there's a little blue light winking at him, so he can't really help himself. He reaches out Amy Sparkes and... finds himself whisked back in time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390479</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Meserve|title=Bedtime Without ArthurKatie Hickey
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|summary=Arthur is 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 very special bearbus 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. Using bravery Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, strength and karate, he keeps Bella safe from monsters when she sleepswalk behind it. One day Many decades later, Arthur goes missingElsie brought the bus, now damaged and Bella has rusted, to face the monsters on Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her owngrandchildren could play with it. Will Arthur turn up? Will Bella ever get a good night's sleep again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709437</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Fardell1529504767|title=Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High!The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Jeremiah Jellyfish is drifting aimlessly through lifeSusan 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 bored of doing nothing in t have worried though as she went to the great big jellyfish shoal. With a bit home of geeing up from his granddadMr and Mrs Russell, he strikes out on his who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own, meets a highroom -powered businessman, swaps jobs, 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 becomes an executive in a rocket plane companyMr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. As jellyfish do, obviously The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390142</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Reid and Michael Foreman1916459943|title=The Littlest Dinosaur and the Naughty RockSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=After the littlest dinosaurMuch as mothers love their babies, there's [[The Littlest Dinosaur by Michael Foreman|earlier]] [[The Littlest Dinosaursomething they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's Big Adventure by Michael Foreman|adventures]]so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, Camilla Reid takes hold of he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the writing reinswaves sing ''hush, whilst Michael Foreman offers up his beautiful illustrations as alwayshush''. This time, the dinosaur is in a bit Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a bad mood, being rude to his dad, shouting at his siblings, sandy beach and ruining his mealyou have the sound perfectly. His mum sends him to sit on the naughty rock The mermaids join in - ''la lou, but hela lay...''s in And for quite a surprise when he gets there.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>140880266X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Reidy and Genevieve Leloup140639131X|title=Too Pickly!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=ItPhilippa Pheasant was 's [[Too Purply! by Jean Reidy and Genevieve Leloup|Too Purply!]] with food'tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. That She wrote to the mayor about sums it up, the problem but for those of you who havendidn't already fallen in love with Jean Reidyeven get a reply. Philippa wasn's tale t a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of getting dressed, ''Too Pickly!'' looks 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 boy (and his hamster) deciding what amateur to eatstart with but the benefits were obvious. Dish by dish, he rejects them for being too pickly, too wrinkly, too burpy, too stringy, All the animals used the crossing and so on, until he finds the one that's just rightHedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807114</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Reid and Ailie Busby1776574338|title=LuluLeilong's LooToo Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5
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|summary=We've been here beforeEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as Lulu introduced us he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to her [[Lulugo downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's Shoes by Camilla Reid and Ailie Busby|shoes]]perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, [[Luluthough. Leilong isn's Clothes by Camilla Reid and Ailie Busby|clothes]] and [[Lulut happy in the city: he's Christmas by Camilla Reid always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and Ailie Busby|Christmas]]. Here, she– because he's kind enough longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to show us all that goes on with her loo, nappies and pottytraffic regularly gets snarled up. As before, there are plenty of interesting flaps to lift and things to explore The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802651</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Gaiman1776574028|title=InstructionsBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=Go through I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the mysterious doorchild who still enjoys board books (er, mind 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 imp, trust the wolves elephant who dons a tutu - and answer the ferrymanbecomes a ''balletphant''s question carefully. Neil Gaiman takes us on The buffalo who has had a tour of bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a fantasy land with hair drier becomes a series of instructions for surviving the adventure''fluffalo''. You The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a 'll discover wonders beyond your wildest dreams, and return home safely, 'crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a little older and a little wiser''sm.......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808641</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tasha Pym and Joel Stewart1838226834|title=Have You Ever Seen A Sneep?Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=Ever fallen foul It was one of a Sneep? (Nothose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, not [[Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide by Mara Bergman and Nick Maland|Oliver Donnington Rimington-Sneep]])so the trips out were always so much fun. What about a Grullock, Knoo or Loon? One poor little A young boy tries was going to go about the carnival with his daily businessGrandad, but keeps getting interrupted by these mysterious monsters. You've never heard of them before, you say? He wants to have a word with you then...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055255698X</amazonuk>}}who told him:
{{newreview|author=David McKee|title=Elmer On Stilts|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Who doesn't already know and love Elmer the patchwork elephant? This time round'It'll be brilliant, just remember, hedon's helping all his other elephant chums avoid the nasty hunterst let go of my hand. Throw in a CD version of the story read by Joss Ackland - yes, really - and you're on to a real winner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708376</amazonuk>'
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joel StewartB09MYXSRV4|title=Dexter Bexley And Otter's Coat: The Big Blue Beastie On The RoadReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=3.54
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|summary=Dexter Bexley and When the world was made, the Big Blue Beastie are hooting and hooting and hootinganimals were given gifts. Everyone in town is sick to the back teeth of their incessant hooting, Bear was given strength so they kick them out of townthat he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Dexter Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and '' the Beastie hit the roadfuture. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, hooting as they gounfortunately, embarking on 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 rollicking adventure and meeting up race with Turtle. You might think that's not a princess fair contest but wait and a dragonsee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617720</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Anthony Browne|title=Me and You|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Once upon a time there was a little girl called Goldilocks... You know the rest. ''Me and You'' flips the classic fairy tale around, telling it from the three bears' point of view. Nice idea, non? It is, but calling it a retelling merely scratches the surface...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385614896</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alison Murray|title=Apple Pie ABC|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Take one traditional rhyme (''A was an apple pie, B bit it...''), mix it up a bit with new words, add a pinch of sweet girl and a dash of naughty dog, and you've got a recipe for... well, a unbelievably cliched first line in a review from me, but also a super book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408308010</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony RossRob Keeley|title=Super Dooper JezebelCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Jezebel is a good girl - so good Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, in factbroccoli, that everyone calls her Super Dooper Jezebelcabbage and aubergines. She's neat and tidy, does When her choresfriends at school turn up their noses, Lily is perfectly behaved, keen to explain how good they are for you and is an inspiration how nice to alleat. The Prime Minister sent her a special medal for being so goodOne day, and Jezebel poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her own TV show to show others how to behavethat carrots grow on trees. She won't even runInfuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, because it's against grow in the rulesground. SometimesJordan says, just sometimes"I did try to tell her, rules are meant to be broken..Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849390169</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Sperring and Miriam LatimerB09FFJF8YS|title=The Sunflower SwordYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=There's a little knight (who looks remarkably like a boy with a colander on his head) who wants to battle with dragons a sword, but his mum says he can't. He's desperate to whoosh and swoosh with a shining bladeFor the big, so she gives him a sunflower insteadgrownup girls out there, and off he goes to the top of a hill to do battle with not one but three imaginary dragons. Therepotty masters in training, "You Can's t Wear Panties!" is a roar cry (the big-girl kind!) of fire toilet triumph and billowing smoke, and he finds himself face to face with a real dragonpersevering panty pride...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390576</amazonuk>}}''
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|summary=Sir Laughalot is a brave knight. He's got all the gear and is desperate to smite a wicked foe, so off he sets on his travels. He meets a fearsome dragon and a whopping great big giant, but each time they end up laughing with one another. Will things change when he tries to rescue the fair damsel from the evil sorceress?
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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=Ian Whybrow Justine Avery and Caroline Jayne ChurchNaday Meldova|title=Wobble Bear Gets BusyEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Wobble is Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a very busy little bear who has just learned child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to walk talk about and nowjoke about, of course, wants to walk everywherethat is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. We see him here walking in to wake up his parentsIn class, treading on the catsay, dancing when everyone will hear it and falling over, walking on a wall, splashing everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in a puddle untilher ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, of coursewith the familiar humour attached, by the end of the day he has worn himself out and explains that tooting is too tired to walk up the stairs to bedperfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192792628</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Whybrow and Caroline Jayne ChurchB09BG8V3Q6|title=Wobble Bear Says YellowWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Wobble Bear ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is a delightful little bear who is just starting to learn about colours. He insists through the book on calling everything latest release in the 'yellow', whether it is or not, much Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to his mummy's frustration take the pain out of potty training children and my daughterreplace it with some fun. It's delight!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019279261X</amazonuk>a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|authortitle=Sheryl Webster When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Tim WarnesMended|titleauthor=What Small Rabbit HeardPeter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's cold and windyMeet Fred. Small Rabbit just wants to stay inside, but Big Rabbit insists that it's fresh Well, not coldactually, and theyyou're going on a walkto be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. He But I'm getting ahead of myself: I's d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a cheeky scamp is Small Rabbit, so when Big Rabbit says ''try phobia about snakes are going to warm to keep up'', Small Rabbit somehow mishears it him. He arrived as ''jump 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 mud'problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. As the walk goes on, Small Rabbit mishears Big Rabbit time and time again, getting up to all sorts of shenanigans Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728679</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian WildsmithJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Animal GalleryEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Starting off with a crash of rhinocerosesCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, through a corps of giraffesas 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, a hover of troutsay, learning about why the sun and ending up with a dray of squirrels, Brian Wildsmith treats us to a beautiful look at collections of animals.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019272794X</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola KillenJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Not MeNo, No, No!
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|summary=A group of kids They say the best picture books are playing, and making an awful messthe simplest ones. One by one they're asked if they're responsibleAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, and one by one they deny any involvementa Bookbag favourite. But have they been caught red handed, and will it really fall upon Jess the pup to do all the tidying up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248297</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Caryl Hart and Sarah Horne|title=Rhino? What Rhino?|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The rhino was lonely and bored and the zoo''No, so he squeezes between the bars and heads out into the greatNo, wide world. Being a rhino, his manners arenNo!'t quite up to scratch, so he gets into all sorts of scrapes and japes as he steals people's clothes and food. Other poor animals get the blame, so they decide to have a word with the rhino to set him back on is based around the right pathsimplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340981393</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Andrew Weale and Margaret Chamberlain|title=The Newt In The Suit|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=There's one newt in a suit'No, and he's looking very dapper. He's joined by two snazzy-looking flies in tiesno, three cockatoos in high-heeled shoesno! Okay, and so on up to tenokay. YepYes, this is a counting book with lots of well-dressed animals going about their businessyou may.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988673</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Mark Marshall|title=Little TigerThat's Big Holiday|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Little Tiger is going on holiday. Whatever will he need? Wellit! But, flying goggleslike all the best picture books, obviously. A parachute this tiny snippet of text is a must. Who goes anywhere without stilts? Oh, and a helmet, in case he goes in a racing car. Item by item, his suitcase gets more and more full. His holiday sounds like veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it's going to be an amazing adventureappears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>186233773X</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynne Rickards and Lee Wildish194812467X|title=Jacob O'Reilly Wants A PetThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Like many young childrenKirelle 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 smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, Jacob O'Reilly Wants A Petthey see a big barn with a sign outside. HeIt'd love s a dogfarm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. A cat would be great. OohThere are sheep and ducks and cows, what about gerbils? Or an iguana? He's desperate for an animal to look aftergoats and chickens, but mum and dad don't fancy the ideaeven some mice. Then they suggest that he start a pet-sitting businessExcited, Kirelle and all hell breaks loose..Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034098838X</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Mara Bergman and Cassia Thomas|title=Lively Elizabeth!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Elizabeth is a lively little girl. She loves stomping around, making a racket and creating an awful kerfuffle. One day she does the thing that she knows she should never do: she pushes Joe Fitzhugh. Joe tumbles into Jonny, who knocks into another child, and on and on and on. Oh dear, Elizabeth! What have you donewill they buy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988045</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ellie Bethel and Alexandra Colombo|title=Litterbug Doug (A Michael Recycle Adventure)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Litterbug Doug lives on a hill, just outside a beautiful town. His home is an absolute dump, with rubbish strewn everywhere, rats scurrying through the mess, and he won't tidy up his bloomin' bedroom. It's disgusting. Utterly utterly disgusting. His mess spreads and spreads and spreads and spreads. Thankfully, Michael Recycle is on hand to teach Doug the error of his ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394151</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lucy M George and Rachel Swirles|title=The Elves and the Shoemaker|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The shoemaker grows older and older. Where he once made the finest shoes in town, he's now struggling to make ends meet. With only enough money for the leather for one pair of shoes, he's on his last legs. He leaves the leather on the table, ready to assemble the next morning, but when he comes down, the elves have made the most beautiful shoes ever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394135</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Kari-Lynn Winters Sadie and Christina Leistthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=On My WalkMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=A little girl is going for Sadie's mother always said that she was a walk with dreamer, her mummy and her dogmind never on what she should be doing. They hear a horse saying clippity-clop and a frog saying frippity-frop. They enjoy all She lives by the sights River Thames at Greenwich and sounds of the beautiful summer's day, until it starts she loves to rain, drippity-drop, drippity-drop..spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1896580610</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|author=David Lucas''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|title=Something ''To Do|rating=4the Maritime Museum''. |genre=For Sharing |summary=The little bear is booooredHer imagination was fired. He She's desperate for something d love to do, but he lives in sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a monochrome line world, with nothing around except glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the horizon, closing bell and a couple of simple seagullsthe attendant's warning shout. He and When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the big bear go on midst of an adventure to amuse and entertain themselvesthat she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and then create new surroundings by drawing them with a sticktreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337268</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Husband1782227741|title=Dear MissLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's Michael's first day back at school quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and he really doesn't fancy sitting through maths around and double geographyis sucked down a drain on the side of the street. He writes a letter Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to his teacherpanic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, explaining that the secret service have recruited who plucks him to rescue a missing explorer. Letter after letter out of the dirty water using his adventures followcane, until Miss counters which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a letter nice bowl of her own..broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393732</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Gill Linder|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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Xavier DeneuxB08R7LXQ9S|title=My Circus|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=An utterly gorgeous board Remy: A book that everyone will love to pore over, from the very youngest right on up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807009</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewabout believing in yourself|author=Maureen Roffey|title=Bedtime (Slip-Mayuri Naidoo and-Slide Books)Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''Bedtimeagain'' is a pull-the-tabs book about - unsurprisingly - bedtime. Page by page reveals child after child rubbing their eyesThe school bully Jayden, changing into their pyjamas together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, kissing mummy goodnighthave been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and cuddling has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up with teddyRemy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. Each pulled tab changes that pictureSo, when Remy reacts, much like a before it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and after shotthe teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599386</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Helmore and Karen Wall1471191303|title=Hold On Tight, Stripy Horse!The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=45
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|summary=Stripy Horse and his friends live This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a bric-ahouse -brac shop. One day, they discover that it's raining ''inside''. Ella, the pink flamingo umbrella, keeps them dry for a bitvery cold house, but then she's caught by a gust of wind and Stripy Horse is pulled up into the air. Will they discover the source of the rain? Will the shop ever get dry again? And whatbecause her parents couldn's t afford to put the deal with that weathervane parrot that keeps spouting proverbs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248262</amazonuk>}}heating on:
{{newreview|author=Jonathan Shipton and Francesca Chessa|title=Baby Baby Blah Blah Blah!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Emily loves making lists. When her mummy gets pregnant, Emily makes a list ''Ice curled across the inside of all the good things about a new baby, window and another list crept up the corner of all the bad thingsbedpost. Emily's worried that she's 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>}}
{{newreview|author=Gillian Shields The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and Liz Pichon|title=Donthey were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't Let Aliens Get My Marvellous Mum!|rating=3afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A young girl imagines how awful life would be if aliens got her marvellous mum. She pictures all manner This part of ooky space monsters tucking her up in bed, giving her green eggs for breakfastthe city was cold, sad and scaring all the other parents at school. She (lonely and the readers too) realise just how lucky she is to have such a lovely mumIsobel felt invisible. Aww, bless!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337780</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eva Montanari|title=The Alphabet Family|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mummy A wants to write a story, but she can't think what to write. She sees what her children (b, c, d and so on) are up to. Some are playing musical instruments, some are running races, and some are playing in the garden. With plenty of ideas to hand, Mummy A writes her story, and then tells it to all her children Nick Jones and Daddy Z.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394054</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Poly BernateneSi Clark|title=When One Night Didn't Come|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=One night, after the sun has gone to bed, the night doesn't come. There's no darkness, no moon and no stars. Someone's going to have to do something about it, so the man in charge rouses a group of children and they do what they can to bring the night.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham |title=Cloud Tea MonkeysBeartown
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|summary=Tashi Many children have an obsession and her mother live below a tea plantation Sandy Lane, who lives in India. Usually Tashi goes along with her mumBeartown, and whilst mum picks tea leaves is obsessed with the other womenbears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, Tashi sits under a tree and plays with a group of monkeys, sharing teddy bear passed down by her fruit with themgrandmother. Every night, allowing them to groom she looks out of her bedroom window and playing with says goodnight to the little baby monkeysbear statue outside. One Every morning, Tashi's mum is too poorly to go to work, so Tashi struggles with the big tea basket herself. The plantation owner derides her, saying she is too little says hello to pick the teaBee Bear, and Tashi is worried about how she and a colourful painted bear that lives at her mother will cope with no money to get her mum a doctor, or to buy foodschool. She shares even has bears on her worries with her monkey friends and somehow, at the end of the day, Tashi's basket is full of beautiful, fresh, fragrant tea leaves that are a very rare type of tea called 'Cloud Tea'.bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406300926</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|author=David Conway and Dubravka Kolanovic|title=The Secret To Teddy's Happiness|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When the toys discover an old, bedraggled teddy bear, they rack their brains to find a way to mend his broken heart, to make him smile again. The velvet rabbit who knows everything offers to tell them the secret of Teddy's happiness, but he wants them to do him a favour first.|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's this coming over the hill with a crash and a bang? Oh no! It's a donkey with a drum. How's Farmer Gruff going to get his sleep? If he can't sleep, how's he ever going to be able to keep the crows from his corn?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337209</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Sperring and Leo Timmers|title=Green|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Clive loves wearing green. It's all he ever wears. He thinks he looks mighty snazzy, but his big sister (boo! hiss!) takes every opportunity to call him a cabbage, moss, a sprout or a toad. Clive keeps wearing his green clothes, certain that he'll have the last laugh and get one over Move on his sister.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394534</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Whybrow and Lynne Chapman|title=Stinky! Or How The Beautiful Smelly Warthog Found A Friend|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Stinky the warthog lives in a neighbourhood with the Crocodile family, the Monkey family and the Littlebird family. One by one they invite Stinky round to play with their children, but his foul odour and the flies buzzing around him cause all manner of problems. Will he be able to find a friend? ...Well, yes, it says so in the title.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862337594</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Preston Rutt and Ben Redlich|title=Tortoise vs. Hare - The Rematch!|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Harry 'The Hurricane' Hare has been licking his wounds since 'Steady' Eddie Tortoise beat him in the famous race. It's time for a rematch, and Harry's been training hard. Eddie couldn't possibly win again, could he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845394186</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]