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|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…
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{{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
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|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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR
|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor
|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
|rating=5
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|summary=''Slobcat is our cat.''<br>''He does nothing Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but lie''<br>''about warm, or frozen cold and sleepbuilding sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline.'' Well that is what On top of the little girl who tells this wonderful story about ice was a most endearing cat thinkspolar bear. Actually, she is quite wrong, as As the ice bumped onto the reader discoverssand, as the story progresses. Because she bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the rest of the family only see him lazing around and sleeping, they have named him Slobcatice. It is Kit was all for making a term of affection though as they do really love their catrun for it, even though they have got but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him quite wrongone apple and then another. She tells the reader that Slobcat is too lazy He obviously needed to eat his dinner; often comes be taken home soaking wet because he can't be bothered to shelter from on the rain bus and given a good meal and he somewhere to sleep. What else would be totally useless if there were any rats or mice that might need catching.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393885</amazonuk>you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Lee Wildish1913839656|title=Leave Me AloneLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=A young boy sits in a fieldTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, and to every advance by not least because she made the animal friends around him he declares 'Leave me alonebest beetle juice.' He finally explains that packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his problems are too big for anyone button collection to help him with because show his problem is a giant who bullies and teases himgrandmother. When She had promised to take him to the bully appears Friday Night Club at the animals gather together local community centre and tell him Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to leave the boy alonemake 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900145</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Mary McQuillan1529504775|title=Pedro The Penguin Toy Bus (Get Well FriendsThe Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=It 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 beautiful Polar morning. The sun is shining, bus in the icebergs are glistening, toy shop window which would help David - and Pedro decides was happy to start use the day with an early morning swim! He gets ready coins from her money box to dive inpay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, tucks in his tummyDavid learned to stand up, point his beak to use the skybus for support, and dives highwalk behind it. Many decades later, highElsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, high into the air. But oh dear. He forgot to break the ice before diving in! CRUNCH! But don't worryRepair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with a little help from Nurse Nibbles and his Get Well Friends, he'll soon be feeling betterit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900226</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Mary McQuillan1529504767|title=Zoe the Zebra The Christmas Doll (Get Well FriendsThe Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=35
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|summary=It Susan was a beautiful day very young when she was evacuated from London in Africa1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. The sun was shining, She needn't have worried though as she went to the birds were singinghome of Mr and Mrs Russell, and all the zebras were peacefully eating their lunch. All except for Zoe who is so busy looking out for big, scary animals that she isncouldn't looking where have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she is going relaxed and trips up over a teeny-tiny tortoise! began to enjoy her life. However, Nurse Nibbles is on hand and She'd help Mrs Russell with the Get Well Friends baking and when it seems that Zoe will soon be came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the mendChristmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900250</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kristina Stephenson1916459943|title=Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Tale of the Terrible SecretSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=The brave and bold Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and his companions - who are, Much as I am sure you already know by nowmothers love their babies, his good grey mare and his pet cat, Envelope there's something they all dread - are led to a castle that teeters on top of a hill from which strange cries are heardsqueakily baby. Sir Charlie knows that even though He's so tired but he is a bit scaredcan't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he must be brave 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 put right you have the terrible thing that has happened sound perfectly. The mermaids join in the tall- ''la lou, tall tower (with the pointy roof)la lay... '' And so our herofor a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's tale begins…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405253975</amazonuk>going to happen next.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele Geras, Anne Fine, Henrietta Branford, Jacqueline Wilson, Malorie Blackman, Philip Pullman, Tony Mitton, Alan Garner, Berlie Doherty, Gillian Cross, Kit Wright, Michael Morpurgo, Susan Gates and Linda Newbery 140639131X|title=Magic BeansA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=I Philippa Pheasant was attracted ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to this book because it features stories from [[:Category:Jacqueline Wilson|Jacqueline Wilson]], [[:Category:Philip Pullman|Philip Pullman]], [[:Category:Michael Morpurgo|Michael Morpurgo]], [[:Category:Alan Garner|Alan Garner]] and many other prominent children's writerscross the Old Oak Road. I thought it might make She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a great Christmas or birthday present (and it would)reply. TherePhilippa wasn's t a selection bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of stories from traditional sources such as Hans Christian Andersen, the lollipop lady at the school crossing and Aesop, decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and I imagine that lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the authors benefits were inveigled into writing for publisher David Fickling with a free choice of original storiesobvious. So don't expect All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a collection or compendium, but rather an anthology of tales that have entranced and inspired these writers in their own childhoods – magic beans indeedsafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560433</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Backshall1776574338|title=PredatorsLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Many readers would probably know that on the simple count of humans they helped to dispatch, mosquitoes may be the most deadly animals ever. But did you know that if you take into account the success rate of hunts, diversity and spread, ladybirds are more successful predators than tigers?
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{{newreview
|author=Rod Campbell
|title=Dear Zoo (Noisy Book)
|rating=4.5
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|summary=There is something slightly unsettling about Every morning Leilong, the notion of a noisy book; brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the very idea that you can make a racket with something intended city, picking up children as a quiet pastime is a tiny bit he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of an oxymoron for methe window and slide down his neck. But notIt's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of coursegoing to school? There is a problem, for your average toddler (letthough. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's assume that we are disregarding the din they are able always having to make just by banging be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a fair sized hardback such as this, on the table!) tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. And IThe school decides that he can've never met a child who did not like a book with interactive buttons and flaps – nevert be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230757650</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Foreman1776574028|title=Cat on the HillBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=3.54
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|summary=The story I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is told through the eyes of the nameless cat. It starts in Summer when he tells how he loves living aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the top of the hill 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 its tremendous views of words and make something quite different from each one. We have the sea elephant who dons a tutu - and the constant visitors becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who are only too happy to share their sandwiches has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and the drips from their then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice creams. Life cream cone is good even with horrible squawky gulls trying to steal a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his foodpotty changes into a ''sm.... He explains how he used to be a ship...'' OK, let's cat until both the skipper and the ship became too old to sail the seas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842704710</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James McKnight and Mark Chambers1838226834|title=The Day The Gogglynipper EscapedCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=54
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|summary=One dayIt 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, when rounding up so the rather dangerous and often very smelly Gogglynippers, Diggle discovers that there are only nine of trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the purple monsterscarnival with his Grandad, instead of ten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849564507</amazonuk>}}who told him:
{{newreview|author=Neil Griffiths and Peggy Collins|title=Don't Invite Dinosaurs To Dinner|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Don't invite dinosaurs to dinnerIt'll be brilliant, just remember, or take them to the shops… don't take them to a football match, or to sports day, or to the zoo …let go of my hand. In fact, '''DON'T''' take a dinosaur anywhere because, as you will find out, it's a really, really bad idea!I've got to tell you now, that I really love this book – firstly, the stanzas are the well-paced rhyming variety and not your ''moon'', ''June'', ''spoon'' assortment of verse, either, which was a pleasant surprise and went down very well in our house and secondly there are fold out flaps which are huge and beautifully illustrated, often with hilarious punch lines lurking inside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905434847</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|authortitle=James McKnight Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Mark ChambersHare|titleauthor=Only Nooglebooglers Glow in the DarkCordellya Smith
|rating=4
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|summary=Farmer and Mrs McDoogle are throwing a party for all their friends and for When the people who visit world was made, the farm throughout the yearanimals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. The barn has been decorated, Mrs McDoogle has prepared plenty of food and one of the monsters, Diggle, is acting as DJ and playing all of their favourite music Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Soon Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the guests present ''and some of '' the better behaved monsters start arrivingfuture. However Rabbit developed intelligence - but, just as unfortunately, not the party is getting into full swing, calamity strikes 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 the music stopping Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and all the lights going outsee. Things are not always as they seem. The machine that turns poo from the gogglynippers into electricity has broken down I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849564515</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil Griffiths and Janette LoudenRob Keeley|title=Hats OffCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary='Hats Off!' Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is a wonderfully entertaining book that is written entirely in rhyme. It starts by asking if the reader has ever thought about keen to explain how many hats good they might have been bought are for you and whether a hat actually looks good how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on their head or nottrees. The authorInfuriated, Neil GriffithsLily checks with the teacher, then goes who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to suggest that there are: ''Hats too bigtell her, too tight''<br>''Miss!" and too small,''<br>''Hats that just shouldn't''<br>''be worn everyone laughs at all!''poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905434839</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melanie WattB09FFJF8YS|title=Scaredy Squirrel has a Birthday PartyYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
|rating=3.5
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|summary=Scaredy Squirrel is planning a birthday party - his own - but he's not a very brave squirrel and thinks that 'For the safest thing to do for his party will be to celebratebig, by himselfgrownup girls out there, the potty masters in his tree. Very safe. Very far away from any possible dangertraining, like ants or Bigfoot or confetti. Very far away indeed from unfunny clownfish, ponies and porcupines. But then Scaredy"You Can's friend Buddy sends him t Wear Panties!" is a lovely birthday card cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and all of the plans for the party have to changepersevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471346</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview
|author=Seema Barker
|title=The Tangle Fairy
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Jaya, just like every little girl in the land, brushes her hair before bed but wakes up with all sorts of knots and tangles. When Jaya asks her mummy how this can be, the simple explanation is 'The Tangle Fairy'.
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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=June MorleyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Time For DinnerEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=I was beginning Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to wonder when I would see a book talk about and joke about, that addressed the sticky (pardon the pun) issue of is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the food chainwrong time. I meanIn class, say, the reception when everyone will hear it and pre-schooler set seem pretty au fait everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with being cooked tooting and gently and eaten by giants whose sleep is disturbedcalmly, or by nasty, warty, smelly old witches who live in with the woods waiting for a hapless brother and sister to wander past the doorfamiliar humour attached, so I was very keen to see how Morley got into the detail of this particular stumbling blockexplains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849564396</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Yeoman and Quentin BlakeB09BG8V3Q6|title=Sixes Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and SevensSeema Amjad
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|summary='Sixes and Sevens' was originally published in 1971 but the fact it’s still doing the rounds Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is a testament to the longevity of latest release in the rhyming writing style and the simply fabulous illustrations by Quentin Blake''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. I grew up on a diet This series of fun picture books illustrated by Blake and it was a joy aims to revisit his style in take the pages pain out of this book potty training children and replace it with the next generation of my family; my 4 year oldsome fun. It's a worthy aim, Sadieas any frustrated parent will tell you. . |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393087</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|authortitle=Clemency Pearce When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Sam McPhillipsMended|titleauthor=The Silent OwlPeter Cotton|rating=34.5
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|summary=Owl is silentMeet 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. Not Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a hootphobia about snakes are going to warm to him. Not He arrived as a present in a twit or 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 twoowalk. And that was where the problem started. NothingFred didn't have any road sense. The other forest animals are worried about him, and try to provoke him into saying something, but Owl remains silentOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849564248</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dubravka Kolanovic Justine Avery and Eilidh RoseNaday Meldova|title=Little Penguin Learns to SwimEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Little Penguin has an important day ahead of himCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, for today he is going to go swimming for the first timeas any parent will tell you. HeBut really, why shouldn's a little bit scared, but t it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as he sets off we have to the water he meets several friends along the way, all of whom learn about everything else when we are also trying out something newsmall. As he sees each of them succeed in their endeavoursWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, will he also find learning about why the courage to try sun and swim himselfthe moon take turns in the sky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184956440X</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura Owen Justine Avery and Korky PaulNaday Meldova|title=The Misadventures of Winnie the WitchNo, No, No!
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|summary=Have you met Winnie They say the Witch yet? I do hope sobest picture books are the simplest ones. She's really quite bonkersAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, often rather disgusting, and she has a fat, long-suffering cat called WilburBookbag favourite. She 's a bit of a favourite in our house'No, No, so we were eager to sit down and read her newest stories togetherNo!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192732145</amazonuk>}}'' is based around the simplest text imaginable.
{{newreview|author=J R R Tolkien|title=Mr Bliss|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=If you wanted to produce a classic of children's literature'No, no, it would probably look a lot like this. It would be written by a famous name as a private exercise for their childrenno! Okay, with the author's own illustrationsokay. It would feature a title characterYes, with a typical Edwardian headstrong attitude, yet with an ability to create slapstickyou may. It may well have fairytale characters as you've never seen them before. And it would be presented in a deluxe, pristine heritage edition such as this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000743619X</amazonuk>}}'
{{newreview|author=Laurent de Brunhoff|title=BabarThat's Celesteville Games|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Babar the elephant is it! But, like all the king of Celestevillebest picture books, and this year his country tiny snippet of text is hosting a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the Worldwide Games. Athletes come from all over inside that it appears on the world to compete. There is a fairytale romance for one of Babar's children, now grown up, toooutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419701258</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jutta Ash194812467X|title=RapunzelThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Rapunzel is Kirelle and her best friend Sam the story of a young man and his wife who long cat decide to go for a child of their ownwalk. Unfortunately, the wife also yearns to eat the lush rapunzel that grows Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in the garden next doorhis smart grey fur coat. She pleads with her husband As they walk to fetch her some which he does. However he is spotted by the witch who lives there who tells him that in return for top of the rapunzel hill, they must give her their first born childsee a big barn with a sign outside. This It's a farm shop! But this is a baby girl who is given farm shop with a difference: all the name Rapunzelstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. The witch imprisons her at the top of a tall tower There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and she can only be reached by the witch climbing up her long golden tressesSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393729</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Eric Carle|title=The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Eric Carle's latest story consists of just 50 words, 10 animal paintings and two pictures of the young artist at work. Simply, a child creates a series of vibrant paintings of animals in unusual, striking colours, including a blue horse, a green lion and a multi-coloured, polka-dotted donkey. My own favourite is the purple fox. The child says, I am a good artist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141340010</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo Lionni0995647895|title=FrederickSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=The story of Frederick starts by introducing a chatty family of field mice who live in a stone wall alongside a meadow not far from Sadie's mother always said that she was a barn and a granary. Unfortunatelydreamer, the farmers have moved away meaning that there are not such rich pickings to collect for the winterher mind never on what she should be doing. However, She lives by working hard night and day the little family look like they could collect enough to see them through the long hard winter. Frederick is the only mouse who seems to see things slightly differently though. Instead of working as hard as his brothers and sisters, he spends his days staring River Thames at the meadow seemingly half asleep. Not surprisingly, the other hard working mice are none too pleased so they challenge Frederick. His answer amazes them when he claims that he is collecting supplies of a different sort – sun rays for the cold dark days ahead, colours for the grey winter Greenwich and words for the long days when they might run out of things she loves to sayspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393095</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|author=Christina Goodings and Annabel Hudson''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|title=My Look and Point Bible|rating=4''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=For Sharing |summary=This version of Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the bible for toddlers has been cleverly retold to engage little ones, with lots of illustrations, pictures to point at oceans on an ancient sailing ship and words to learnwent back regularly. It includes stories from both One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the old one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and new testaments, from missed the creation closing bell and Noah through to the birth attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of Jesus as well as some an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of his parables dolphins, pirates, mermaids and the crucifixiontreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745962068</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carey Morning and Alan Marks1782227741|title=The Shepherd Girl of BethlehemLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=The little shepherd girl is the daughter of One day, Gold Ted falls into a shepherdpuddle. She helps her father in the hills, tending the sheep, but only during the day for at night sheIt's told it's too dark quite a deep puddle and the water is sent swirling. Poor Ted starts to bed in their house to sleep whilst he watches over the sheep in the hills. But one night she finds it isn't dark at all, spin around and around and the light from is sucked down a star is shining so brightly it seems like drain on the whole world is lit up. So she sneaks out side of her house and goes into the hills to find her fatherstreet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745962327</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Gibb|title=Best-loved Classics: Rapunzel|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Educators are, apparently, concerned at Finding himself down in the moment at the number of children starting school who don't know any of the old traditional fairy talessewer, so it's nice Ted starts to see a new version of Rapunzel that is based on the original story by The Brothers Grimmpanic. This is a lovely book to share and stays closer to the original story than Disney's 'TangledOH HELP ME PLEASE'' film.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007364806</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elena Pasquali he cries and Giuliano Ferri|title=The Animals' Christmas|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Seeing alerts the title of ''The Animals' Christmas'' I had expected this story to provide perhaps an alternate perspective attention of Reg the Christmas story. Howeversewer rat, although the illustrations have lots who plucks him out of animals throughout, the story itself sticks to the traditional tellingdirty water using his cane, 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 couple nice bowl of animal references seemingly thrown inbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745962491</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna NadinB08R7LXQ9S|title=Penny Dreadful is a Complete CatastropheRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Penny Remy is not really Penny Dreadfulfeeling miserable. She is Penny JonesHe's let himself down ''again''. But when her encounters The school bully Jayden, together with a rat called Rooneyhis sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, a cat called Barry and her cousin Georgia Mayhave been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and her testing of a patent burglar trap has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and digging for buried treasure all end in catastrophesthen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, is it surprising that she is known looks as a Disaster Magnet? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409536076</amazonuk>though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Patten and Nicola Bayley1471191303|title=The Big Snuggle-upInvisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=The This is the story of The BIG Snuggle-up takes place on a very cold snowy day. The storytellerIsobel, a small child, tells the reader that because it was so cold he invited little girl who made a scarecrow big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in to be a guest in his house. However- a very cold house, living in the scarecrowbecause her parents couldn's sleeve is a little mouse, so t afford to put the scarecrow asks whether the mouse can come in too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392080</amazonuk>}}heating on:
{{newreview|author=Judy Bee and Little Pink Pebble|title=The Zoo Crew Play Ball|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=On ''Ice curled across the second weekend inside of every month the zoo keepers plan special activities for the animals window and this time crept up the San Carlos Beavers are going to show them how to play ball. Helga the Hippo hopes that she won't have to run because all she wants to do is wallow in the mud – which would make a bit of a mess corner of the lovely red-and-white outfit which shebedpost.'s wearing. Eddie the Elephant is keen to get all the animals together to make plans and discuss strategy. Lenny the Lion organises training sessions – but Helga really isn't that enthusiastic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920008</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross|title=WeThe family didn're Going t go to a Party!|rating=4the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The animals are going Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to a fancy dress party! But what is everyone going move to dress up as? Can you guess who's inside each costume? the far side of the city. This lift part of the flap book allows you to take a peek beneath the costume to see exactly who's inside!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184939122X</amazonuk>city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol ThompsonNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Noo-Noos!One Night in Beartown
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|summary=Almost everyone has had a noo-noo at some point in their lives; Many children have an object that brings comfort and solace like a dummy or a blanket or a favourite bear. Amongst friends obsession and family I've seen a variety of such objects ranging from your typical teddy through to a mummy's satin bra (it has that lovely silky feel to it) and evenSandy Lane, who lives in one caseBeartown, a bathroom sponge! This book depicts a variety of noo-noos and looks at their attributes (big, small, shiny, knitted...) and also what one does is obsessed with thembears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846431875</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Orla Kiely|title=Orla Kiely Numbers|rating=3She collects books about bears.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This counting book (from one to ten) makes Her favourite toy is Berisford, a nice partner to Orla Kiely's book about [[Orla Kiely Colours teddy bear passed down by Orla Kiely|colours]] if you're looking for a pretty gift to give to a new yummy mummyher grandmother. The fabric cover is rather lovely to touch and feelEvery night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the board book feels well constructed and able bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to withstand Bee Bear, a bit of a chew from a teething babycolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405258551</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|author=Orla Kiely|title=Orla Kiely Colours|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Orla Kiely is one of the UK's most popular designers at the moment. I seem to see her designs everywhere Move on everything from stationery to kitchen jugs, and now her graphics are available as a baby's book of colours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525856X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]