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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Tariq Kurd and Laura Robertson|title=The Quest In A Vest (Gordon the Goblin)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Gordon the Goblin is more than a little fed up because he is so small and not big and tough like all of the other goblins. They are all fearless hunters and go off on exciting adventures whilst Gordon is left behind. He decides that there is nothing else for it but to set out on his very own quest even though he feels very nervous at the thought of it. He approaches the chief goblin who laughs at him, before deciding to send him off to capture a dragon – not for one moment thinking that Gordon will succeed. It does look like an impossible feat especially as Gordon does lack strength and muscles. Maybe though, he will be able to use his brains and charm rather than relying on brute force. Will Gordon be able to find a dragon and actually persuade him that he wants to be captured and what will happen if he does? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907762051</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Bright|title=Love Monster|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=At the start of this lovely book, the reader meets a red googly-eyed monster who is a 'bit funny looking to say the least'. Unfortunately for him, he lives in a world of cute looking things which only make his strange unorthodox looks more noticeable. He feels lonely when he sees that everyone loves the cute bunnies, kittens and puppies who live close by but no one seems to love him. Rather than be downhearted though, he decides to set out to find someone who will love him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007445466</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Bedford and Tor Freeman|title=Babies Don't Bite|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Hegley the pony is excited. His mummy is having a baby! His friends, however, don't seem to share his excitement...their mums are all having babies too, but they know that babies just mean trouble!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444903527</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gervase Phinn and Tony RossAdam Stower|title=Who Am I?|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When a funny little creature hatches out of an egg deep in the jungle, all alone, he sets off to try and discover who he is. Wandering through the jungle he meets lots of different creatures Murray and he asks each of them ''Who'' ''am'' ''I?'' but they are all mystified, able only to tell them who they are. Will he ever meet another creature just like him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392889</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Mortimer and Liz Pichon|title=Red Riding Hood and the Sweet Little Wolf|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary='Once upon a time there was a Big Bad Wolf who lived in the woods. Well. That's not quite true... Really, she was a Sweet Little Wolf who loved all things pretty and pink, especially fairy tales.' From the very start of this wonderful book the reader discovers that not all wolves are big and bad and is introduced to the sweetest, mildest wolf that ever lived. The only problem is that her parents are big and bad and they want her to be exactly like them. This is why they send her out with a shopping list for dinner which along with the onions, potatoes and carrots includes 'one little girl (tender and juicy)'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900668</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Judge|title=The Great ExplorerBun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=I really enjoyed Chris JudgeMurray 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 first bookcat, [[The Lonely Beast by Chris Judge|The Lonely Beast]] so I was excited to pick up his latest storyfavourite 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 we're following the story of round it drops them into a young boy called Tom. His dadViking land, where a famous explorertroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, has gone missing at the North Pole and so Tom sets out to find him. His adventurousbe honest, exciting journey sees him facing dangerous animals but he's turned up and the treacherous terrain. Will he make it 'll have to find his dad?do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849394016</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Micah Player1732898766|title=Chloe, Instead|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Molly imagined her little sister she thought she'd be someone just like her, but instead she got Chloe! Molly loves to draw, Chloe loves to eat the crayons! Molly loves books, The Adventures of Birpus and so does Chloe but in a rather more page-ripping way! This lovely story looks at an older sibling trying to cope with her shattered expectations of what having a little sister would be like.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0811878651</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Jonathan Emmett Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Steve Cox|title=The Treasure of Captain ClawIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=This is the story of what happens when two dogs, Oscar When we first meet Birpus and Lily, are on holiday together and come across an old treasure map. In Bulbus they're running for their adventurous quest to find the treasure they are captured by pirates but they cleverly manage to outwit them lives in a way which leads to a laugh-out-loud conclusion to the story!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846167418</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Val McDermid and Arthur Robins|title=My Granny is a Pirate|rating=4Forest of Fine Repute.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It seems Their greatest fear has come about: the pirate phase Sour Milk Dragon is something all small children go through at some pointchasing them. My daughter spent several months dressed as a pirate, completing her outfit with a knitted eye patchHe's right behind them, which she asked my mum to knit for herspewing hot, swiftly followed by a knitted parrot! sour milk from his nostrils. It is rather fun to run around shouting (Please don'Arrrrrrrrrr me hearties!t try this at home: it won' actually, so I can see the appealt end well. ) AnywayFortunately, this story caters beautifully they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for all them, they escaped. They climbed up to the little wannabe pirates out there Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and tells of one little boy's granny and her secret life storyGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309262</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Andreae and Vanessa CabbanB0CC9W7GLR|title=There's a House Inside My MummyOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=The arrival of a new sibling can Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be a tricky time in any child's lifeat home, bored but this lovely book helps ease the way for warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a new baby and explains about pregnancy in snowy beach when a very easy, funny way that is perfect for sharing with toddlerslarge slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. The idea On top of there being the ice was a house inside mummy's tummy is a clever one, and instantly understandable by small children, and polar bear. As the loving family relationship that is depicted in ice bumped onto the story is wonderful to see.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408315882</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sandra Horn and Ken Brown|title=Tattybogle|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=At the start of this storysand, Tattybogle stands in the middle of bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the field in which he has stood ice. Kit was all for making a long time. He is made of sticks and sacksrun for it, wears but Teal knew that the farmer's old clothes bear was hungry and his head is full of straw gave him one apple and cheerful thoughtsthen another. It would seem that this scarecrow's life is He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a very good one especially when the wind blows because he likes a bit of a dance. He also likes the rain meal and when the stars twinkle at nightsomewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842706853</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Mackey1913839656|title=PushkaLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=This story sees Todd was excited about spending the gathering together of three unlikely friends: a dragonweekend with his grandmother, a witch and a giant. They all consider themselves to be TOTALLY TERRIFYING, yet when they meet each other, they're not scaredleast because she made the best beetle juice. As they wander around He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together they come across a toddlerhis button collection to show his grandmother. She isn't phased by any of them had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and the totally terrifying three soon find themselves entertaining her with a shoulder rideTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, a trip on the broomstick his only friend was his mum and a sweetly crooned dragon lullabyhe wondered why that could be. It seems the three friends are not so terrifying after all!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444903020</amazonuk>Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Geraghty1529504775|title=SlobcatThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=''Slobcat is our catElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past.''<br>''He does nothing Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but lie''<br>David couldn't - he'about d been born with cerebral palsy and sleepeven just standing up was very difficult.'' Well that is what One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the little girl who tells this wonderful story about a most endearing cat thinkscoins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Actually Gradually, she is quite wrongDavid learned to stand up, as use the reader discoversbus for support, as the story progressesand walk behind it. Because she and Many decades later, Elsie brought the rest of the family only see him lazing around bus, now damaged and sleepingrusted, they have named him Slobcat. It is a term of affection though as they do really love their catto the Repair Shop, even though they have got him quite wrong. She tells the reader hoping that Slobcat is too lazy to eat his dinner; often comes home soaking wet because he can't be bothered to shelter from the rain and he would be totally useless if experts there were any rats or mice could make it so that might need catchingher grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393885</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Lee Wildish1529504767|title=Leave Me AloneThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=3.5
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|summary=A Susan was very young boy sits when she was evacuated from London in a field, 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to every advance by the animal friends around him he declares home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn'Leave me alonet have been kinder to her.' He finally explains that his problems are too big for anyone She even had her own room - all to help him with because his problem is a giant who bullies herself. Gradually she relaxed and teases himbegan to enjoy her life. When the bully appears She'd help Mrs Russell with the animals gather together baking and tell him when it came to leave Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the boy alonefollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900145</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Mary McQuillan1916459943|title=Pedro The Penguin (Get Well Friends)Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=It is Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a beautiful Polar morningsqueakily baby. The sun is shining, the icebergs are glistening, and Pedro decides to start the day with an early morning swim! He gets ready 's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to dive insleep: instead, tucks in he just lies on his tummy, point his beak blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the skywaves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and dives high, high, high into you have the airsound perfectly. But oh dear. He forgot to break the ice before diving The mermaids join in! CRUNCH! But don- ''t worryla lou, with la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a little help from Nurse Nibbles seagull '''shouts''' and his Get Well Friends, hewe know exactly what'll soon be feeling betters going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900226</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kes Gray and Mary McQuillan140639131X|title=Zoe the Zebra (Get Well Friends)A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=34.5
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|summary=It Philippa Pheasant was a beautiful day in Africa''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. The sun was shining, She wrote to the birds were singing, and all mayor about the zebras were peacefully eating their lunchproblem but didn't even get a reply. All except for Zoe who is so busy looking out for big, scary animals that she isn Philippa wasn't looking where a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she is going saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and trips decided that she would set up over a teeny-tiny tortoise! something similar herself. However, Nurse Nibbles is on hand Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the Get Well Friends it seems that Zoe will soon be on benefits were obvious. All the animals used the mendcrossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900250</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kristina Stephenson1776574338|title=Sir Charlie Stinky Socks Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and the Tale of the Terrible SecretBei Lynn
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|summary=The brave and bold Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his companions - who areway through the city, picking up children as I am sure you already know by now, his good grey mare 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 pet catneck. It's perfect, Envelope - are led to isn't it? What could be a castle that teeters on top more fun way of going to school? There is a hill from which strange cries are heardproblem, though. Sir Charlie knows that even though Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he is 's longer than a bit scared, tennis court – he must be brave often causes damage without intending to and put right the terrible thing traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that has happened in he can't be the tall, tall tower (with the pointy roof)bus anymore. And so our hero's tale begins…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405253975</amazonuk>
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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 1776574028|title=Magic BeansBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
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|summary=I was attracted to this love a good board book because ! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it features stories 's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from [[:Category:Jacqueline Wilson|Jacqueline Wilson]], [[:Category:Philip Pullman|Philip Pullman]], [[:Category:Michael Morpurgo|Michael Morpurgo]], [[:Category:Alan Garner|Alan Garner]] each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and many other prominent childrenbecomes a ''balletphant''s writers. I thought it might make The buffalo who has had a great Christmas or birthday present bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it would!). There's a selection of stories from traditional sources such as Hans Christian Andersen, and Aesop, and I imagine that the authors were inveigled The pelican who sits on his potty changes into writing for publisher David Fickling with a free choice of original stories''sm....... '' So donOK, let't expect a collection or compendium, but rather an anthology of tales that have entranced and inspired these writers in their own childhoods s not go there – magic beans indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560433</amazonuk>Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Backshall1838226834|title=PredatorsCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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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:
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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
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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
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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>}}''
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.
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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>}}
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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>}}
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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 spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of the sheep street. Finding himself down in the hillssewer, Ted starts to panic. But one night she finds it isn't dark at all, 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the light from a star is shining so brightly it seems like the whole world is lit up. So she sneaks out attention of her house and goes into Reg the hills to find her father.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745962327</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Gibb|title=Best-loved Classics: Rapunzel|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Educators aresewer rat, apparently, concerned at the moment at the number of children starting school who don't know any plucks him out of the old traditional fairy talesdirty water using his cane, so it's nice to see which might look just a new version of Rapunzel that is based on the original story by The Brothers Grimmbit like an old cricket bat. This Reg is a lovely book to share kind soul and he dries Ted off and stays closer to the original story than Disney's 'Tangled' filmwarms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007364806</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Pasquali and Giuliano FerriB08R7LXQ9S|title=The Animals' Christmas|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Seeing the title of ''The Animals' Christmas'' I had expected this story to provide perhaps an alternate perspective of the Christmas story. However, although the illustrations have lots of animals throughout, the story itself sticks to the traditional telling, with a couple of animal references seemingly thrown Remy: A book about believing in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745962491</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewyourself|author=Joanna Nadin|title=Penny Dreadful is a Complete CatastropheMayuri 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:
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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 obsession and solace like Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a dummy or a blanket or a favourite teddy bearpassed down by her grandmother. Amongst friends Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and family I've seen a variety of such objects ranging from your typical teddy through says goodnight to a mummy's satin bra (it has that lovely silky feel the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to it) and even, in one caseBee Bear, a bathroom sponge! This book depicts a variety of noo-noos and looks colourful painted bear that lives at their attributes (big, small, shiny, knitted...) and also what one does with themher school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846431875</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}