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|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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|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=Wilfred owns a mooseWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. His moose’s name Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is Marcel 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 most when a ladder of the time Marcel follows Wilfred’s rather lengthy rules on how moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to be the perfect pet. However some of Tree Wee homes high up in the rules are rather too demanding for an independent moose tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Marcel develops a tendency to take Wilfred on very long walksGranny Cranny. One day on a particularly lengthy walk they meet an old lady who greets Marcel enthusiastically, 'Rodrigo! You’re back!' Does the moose really belong to Wilfred? How can he prove that Marcel is his perfect pet?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263872</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mij Kelly and Mary McQuillanB0CC9W7GLR|title=A Bed of Your OwnOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=Suzy Sue has brushed her teethKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, picked up her teddy bored but warm, or frozen cold and clambered into her bedbuilding sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. She is ready to fall asleep any moment until she realises that something is not quite right: ''I'm squished On top of the ice was a polar bear. I'm squashed As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. I'm uncomfy! she said Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another.<br>''I think there's something wrong with my bed He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999284</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo Timmers1913839656|title=The Magical Life of Mr Renny|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Our story begins with the words ''This is not an apple'Let' below a painting of a bright green, juicy-looking apple. The apple in question has been painted by Mr Renny who is such a good painter that whatever he paints looks just like the real thing. Unfortunately for Mr Renny though, no-one wants to buy his paintings from him and so one day, a mysterious man in a bowler hat comes along and offers Mr Renny the chance to have everything he paints become real. Will this be the making of Mr Renny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579203</amazonuk>}} {{newreviews Celebrate Being Different|author=Rod Campbell|title=Dear Zoo Touch and FeelLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=[[Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell]]Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the original lift the flap story, is one best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of our most dungarees and his favourite bookshat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. If asked I would give it 5 stars, 6 stars, maybe even 10 stars! It's incredibly readable, interactive She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and a fun story Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to share over and over and over againmake new friends. Now the story has been modernised to give each page a sensory patchAt home, where you his only friend was his mum and baby can touch and feel the he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230757871</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Stephens1529504775|title=How to Hide a LionThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Lions 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 - dangerous? Pahhe'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. They're so gentle that One day Elsie spotted a little could have one bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as a petcash was tight at home. That's exactly what Iris does when a lion wanders into town Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Her parents wouldn't see things as she does Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, so Iris decides to hide the lion around Repair Shop, hoping that the houseexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121618</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gwen Millward1529504767|title=Bear The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and BirdKatie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=Bear Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and bird are best friendsnervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. They do everything together. They work together She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, play together, collect firewood togetherwho couldn't have been kinder to her. However, one evening, Bird burns She even had her own room - all the firewood, so Bear sighs to herself. Gradually she relaxed and heads out began to collect some moreenjoy her life. When he doesn She't return for hours, Bird worries, d help Mrs Russell with the baking and heads out when it came to find his Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best friendsurprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254270</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Willis-Crowley1916459943|title=Mary Had A Little LambSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=Mary Had A Little Lamb is Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a muchsqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't -loved nursery rhyme. We all know the story of its fleece as white as snowgo to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and that it followed Mary ''wails''. The sea offers to school one dayhelp. Kate Willis-Crowley takes It rocks Baby gently and the nursery rhymewaves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and presents it you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in its purest form- ''la lou, la lay. There..''s no twist, no unusual rewriting, And for a moment itseems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's simply the sweet rhyme of a girl and her lamb that is familiar going to allhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999764</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson140639131X|title=My Happy LifeA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=When Dani canPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired't sleep she doesn't count sheep, of nearly getting squished as she counts all tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the times that sheproblem but didn's been happy! And Dani has been happy t even get a lot of timesreply. ShePhilippa wasn's happy because t a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she's about to start saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school, though crossing and decided that she's nervous about making new friendswould set up something similar herself. But then she meets Ella, Her uniform and Ella becomes lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the very best friend she could ever have wished forbenefits were obvious. They have so much fun together, but then one day Ella tells Dani that she is moving house, All the animals used the crossing and suddenly Dani isn't happy any moreHedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467804</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul1776574338|title=WinnieLeilong's Dinosaur DayToo Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5
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|summary=Winnie and Wilbur are always happy to queue Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up with everyone else to visit their favourite museumchildren as he goes. There are so many things Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to look at and play with but best go downstairs – they simply climb out of all is the dinosaur room. Winnie is fascinated by the dinosaurs window and tells Wilbur that she would love to see a real oneslide down his neck. One time when they visit It's perfect, they discover that isn't it ? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is actually Dinosaur Week a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and that there is an exciting competition to make – because he's longer than a model or draw a picture tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to show what and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the museum's dinosaur skeleton would have looked like when it was alivebus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192794019</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario Ramos1776574028|title=I Am So StrongBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=ThereI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee''s no hiding the fact that the wolf is aimed at quite a bully. After heniche market: it's had his meal for the child who still enjoys board books (obviously it was a good oneer, see my first sentence) he goes for a walk in the woods but has mastered sufficient language skills to aid the digestion have realise that you can ''play'' with words and to find out what everyone thinks of himmake something quite different from each one. First he meets We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a little rabbit, who agrees that the wolf is the strongest around here''balletphant''. Full of the joy of being him he strides on The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and gets pretty much the same response from Red Riding Hood, the three little pigs and the seven dwarfsthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. In fact this must be the best day ever for the wolf - until he meets The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''the little toad of some sortcrynoceros' and finds that he's met (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his matchpotty changes into a ''sm. ......'' IOK, let'm s not going to tell you how - you'll have to read the book to find outgo there Some people are eating!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0958278776</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell1838226834|title=Rabbit's Wish|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Rabbit's best friend is Hedgehog but they don't get to spend a lot of time together because Rabbit is awake during the day and Hedgehog is awake at night. One day Rabbitt made a wish that Hedgehog could stay up all day with him - and it came true, but not in the way Rabbit was expecting. There was a downpour and Rabbit's burrow was flooded. The hill on which he lived was turned into an island as the lake rose higher and higher. His first thought as for Hedgehog and he shouted to see if he was OK - but Hedgehog had worried about Rabbit and he'd swum across to make certain that ''he'' was alright. They had a wonderful time but Rabbit worried that it was his wish that had caused Carried Away With the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842700898</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCarnival|author=The Curtises, James and Nick|title=Woffles: A Fishy AdventureEd Boxall
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|summary=Woffles is a big, shiny black Labrador It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with a very long, pink tongue and he is one happy dogour grandparents. Once heThey's greeted you with a yodel and a wuff (and I suspect that re there might be a generous lick in there too) he'll tell you to undo all about his wonderful life. What pleases him is the good that he lives in the countryside - it's very green, you know and there's a complete lack of coffee shops and other things for which he has no time. He has lots of friendsparents do, but his bestie is Pip the Border Terrier and today they're off on an adventure down to so the lake which is being restocked for the fishermentrips out were always so much fun. And - on a boiling hot day what's better than a dip in the lake and using that long tongue A young boy was going to extract a few sandwiches from the fishermen's hampers?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957105800</amazonuk>}}carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
{{newreview|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|title=Superworm|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Superworm is long and strong and he's a real hero as far as all of his insect friends are concerned. He always comes to the rescue when there is trouble. When Baby Toad is in danger of being run over on a major road'It'll be brilliant, he turns himself into a lasso and scoops the baby away from the oncoming wheels. Another timejust remember, Beetle falls into a well and Superworm transforms himself into a fishing line in order to save himdon't let go of my hand. In fact, Superworm can pretty much turn himself into anything and that makes him a very useful and helpful friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132040</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James MayhewB09MYXSRV4|title=Katie Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and the Starry NightHare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=When Katie goes out with her Grandma the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to museums and art galleries interesting things always seem trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to happen whenever Grandma takes be in a little nap! race with Turtle. This time Katie You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and Grandma have come to see an exhibition of Van Gogh paintings, and . Things are not always as Grandma rests Katie climbs into they seem. I''The Starry Night'' painting and begins her adventure!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304651</amazonuk>ll tell you how it came about.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clara VulliamyRob Keeley|title=Muffin and the ExpeditionCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=3.54
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|summary=Muffin the bear has a hankering for an expedition Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, so he packs three honey sandwiches cabbage and some grapesaubergines. He shoots past FizzWhen her friends at school turn up their noses, Flora Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the three chicksteacher, explaining who explains that he's going to a very special placefruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. He wanders aroundJordan says, trying to find something fun "I did try to do on his expeditiontell her, Miss!" and then is treated to his friends joining himeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408312433</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miriam Moss and Joanna MocklerB09FFJF8YS|title=Wibble Wobble, My Loose Tooth|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I donYou Can't know about your family, but my five year old is desperate for a wobbly toothWear Panties! She has already written to the tooth fairy several times and they've built up quite a relationship with discussions about why no money is left if there are no teeth, what the fairies do with all those teeth and it is certainly a hot topic of conversation in our house as we receive regular updates about whose tooth came out at school(No More Nappies! Indeed, the other day her best friend lost his first tooth and when I told my daughter about this she burst into tears claiming, dramatically, that her teeth would ''never'' fall out and she'd never get any big teeth! Well, as you can probably imagine, any story about wobbly teeth was going to go down well in our house and this is certainly a good one!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140831956X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview)|author=Michelle Robinson Justine Avery and Lauren Tobia|title=How to Find a Fruit BatKate Zhoidik
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|summary=A young girl heads ''For the big, grownup girls out on an expedition to find a fruit bat. After allthere, who better to eat all the fruit that she doesnpotty masters in training, "You Can't want to eat? She gets her cardboard box boat ready, packing it with everything she'll need Wear Panties!" is a cry (including fruit for the fruit batbig-girl kind!). On her expedition, she runs into all sorts of excitement toilet triumph and adventure, then sails home in time for supperpersevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408308541</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview
|author=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
|title=Mammoth Pie
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|summary=''On top of a mountain there lived a fat mammoth.''<br>
''Down in the valley there lived a thin caveman.''<br>
''The caveman was hungry. Very, very hungry.''<br>
''He saw the mammoth and licked his lips.''
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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=Alex T SmithJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Catch Us If You Can-CanEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Having met Foxy DuBois previously in the excellent [[Egg by Alex T Smith|Egg]] here she is againToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, as charming as ever find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and this joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time hoping to win a giant golden egg! . In order to win the egg she must compete class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in a her 'So you think you can boogie' competition (Everybody Potties!) '' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently andcalmly, since with the competition familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is open only to birds she must enter herself, and her unlikely dance partner, in disguiseperfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444903659</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miriam Moss and Delphine DurandB09BG8V3Q6|title=Scritch Scratch We Have NitsWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=There can't be many children who don't get nits at some point at schoolWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This is a brilliant story series of fun picture books aims to share take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with them if theysome fun. It're feeling s a bit sensitive about it since the nits originate with the teacher! We meet the little louse who starts the trouble in the first placeworthy aim, and then watch as the lice babies jump around from child to childany frustrated parent will tell you. Will everyone manage to get rid of the lice once and for all?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319586</amazonuk>.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|authortitle=John Yeoman When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Quentin BlakeMended|titleauthor=Rumbelow's DancePeter Cotton
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|summary=Rumbelow is a little boy with a great deal Meet 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 energy so walking to his grandparentmyself: I's house in town is no problem for him even though it is d better tell you a long waybit more about Fred. After his mother gives him Fred is a long list snake and even those of very precise directions, he sets off. Although it is us who have a very hot day, he is so happy that he feels the need phobia about snakes are going to warm to dance rather than just walkhim. Before long he meets He arrived as a present in a sad-faced farmer walking along box with his sad-faced pig. The farmer moans holes so that he will never get his lazy pig to market on such a hot day. However, Rumbelow has a suggestion:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394601</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tony Ross|title=I Didn't Do It! (Little Princess)|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=There's mud all over the floor could breathe and immediately became part of the Queen blames family, to the Little Princess. 'I didn't do it!' the Little Princess responds extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a very disgruntled look upon her facewalk. A little later, the Cook tells her off for eating all the chocolate cake; the Gardener thinks And that she has trampled all over was where the radishes; the Prime Minister claims that he has taken the bell from his bicycle and the Admiral blames her for sinking all his shipsproblem started. To each accusation, the Little Princess replies: ''I Fred didn't do it!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394644</amazonuk>have any road sense. Or brakes.
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 {{newreview|author=Rebecca Elliott|title=The Last Tiger|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Luka lives in a very grey world, with no trees or plants or animals. Everyone has forgotten what is important but then one day Luka finds the very last tiger. Will the tiger bring everyone hope for the future, or will he spend his life away locked up in a cage?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745963498</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David McKee Justine Avery and Brett McKeeNaday Meldova|title=George's Invisible WatchEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=George has an invisible watchCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. At first no one believes that he has an invisible watchBut really, but slowly they find that his watch is always right until eventually they why shouldn't it be? We all begin have to rely on him and his watch learn about our bodily functions just as we have to tell learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the time! But what happens when one day nobody rings sun and the bell at playtime so moon take turns in the children don't begin their lessons again? Has George's watch broken downsky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842708643</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hannah CummingJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Red BoatNo, No, No!
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|summary=Posy has moved to a new house, and she's feeling lonely. She isn't sure she likes it there - They say the neighbours might be a bit scary, and she doesn't like best picture books are the shadows in her new room, and she's worried about starting a new schoolsimplest ones. What if no-one likes her? Luckily she has her dog, George, to keep her companyAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, and one night the two of them find a magical boat in the garden that leads them to lots of exciting new adventuresBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846434815</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Guy Parker-Rees|title=Tom and Millie's Great Big Treasure Hunt|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary='Tom and Millie are excited they're going on a greatNo, No, big treasure huntNo! They have a list of Very Important Things to find'' is based around the simplest text imaginable.'
This is the opening of this enormously appealing book that draws the young reader in from the very start''No, no, no! Okay, okay. The fact that Very Important Things all start with capitals obviously signifies that they are actually extremely important and definitely makes young children want to find out what these momentous objects are going to be. We find out that the search is going to start at the beach and that the first clue will be found on a square red flag. When Yes, you get to the beach though there are lots of other things and friends to spot too such as Adam licking a pink ice cream and Jake wearing a red capmay.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408311763</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Angela Macmillan |title=A LittleThat's it! But, Aloud for Children|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This very special anthology of story extracts and poems to share aloud is a wonderful idea from The Reader Organisation to encourage reading aloud to children by parents, teachers, grandparents, librarians, friends or even other children. The terrific and very varied selection includes something to appeal to like all tastes. It should tempt the reader to seek out the original best picture books from which the extracts are taken and maybe to try children’s fiction that they have not considered before. The book includes classics, tried and tested old favourites and newer titles too. Dipping into this anthology for tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the first time feels a little like meeting old and maybe long forgotten friends and making new ones along inside that it appears on the wayoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560425</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Lloyd194812467X|title=Yucky Mucky MannersThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Down Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the jungle wehill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It're taking s a farm shop! But this is a walk to meet farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. Sadly their manners leave a lot to be desiredThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Gorilla is picking his noseExcited, Zebra is eating with his mouth open Kirelle and parrot is talking over all his friendsSam go shopping. Are there any polite animals to be found?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184616947X</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Fiona Roberton|title=The Perfect Present|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We first met Henry in [[Wanted: The Perfect Pet by Fiona Roberton|Wanted: The Perfect Pet]] (a story I still love!) when he went in search of a dog but found, in the end, that a small duck named Spot was actually everything he needed in a pet. This time the two friends are looking forward to Henry's birthday. Spot has found Henry what he thinks is the perfect present: a fishing rod that Henry has been gazing at in a shop window for quite some time. Henry tries to guess what Spot has bought him, and Spot is so excited about seeing Henry's face when he opens it. When morning comes the pair rush down to see all the presents. Henry is saving Spot's present for last however, just as he is about to open it Henry's grandparents arrive with a box. They place it in front of Henry and inside it is a dog! Henry is so excited he forgets to open Spot's gift and rushes outside to play with the dog. Poor Spot! Will this change their friendship foreverWhat will they buy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444908944</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Tony Mitton Sadie and Guy Parker-Reesthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=The Jungle RunMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=Sadie''Here come the animals one s mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by one,''<br>''all getting ready for the Jungle RunRiver Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.''
This is how we meet ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the animals at houses cowered in the start of this fabulous bookgloom, all limbering up on ''<br>''To the bank of the river preparing for their big race. ThereMaritime Museum''s Parrot who is the starter for the race as well as a whole menagerie of other animals such as Elephant, Hippo, Snake and Cub. Most of the animals laugh at the prospect of the little Cub taking part telling him that he is too small to race Her imagination was fired. Undeterred though, he does decide She'd love to take part sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and soon the race is under waywent back regularly. And what One day she fell asleep under a race glass case (it is with a big vine net to scramble under, a creeper rope to swing across 's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and a huge water slide at the very end. Unsurprisingly, some of these obstacles prove to be quite hazardous for some of missed the larger animals closing bell and all sorts of mayhem ensues. Not for all the creatures though as thereattendant's one little creature who negotiates everything perfectly but does he end up winning warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the race? You'll midst of an adventure that she could never have to read this lovely book to find outimagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408311755</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ulf Nilsson and Eva Eriksson1782227741|title=The Best Singer in the WorldLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=ThereOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a boy who loves deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to sing to his little brother, spin around and around and his little brother thinks he's is sucked down a drain on the side of the very best singer street. Finding himself down in the worldsewer, Ted starts to panic. He sings him 'You are my sunshine' and OH HELP ME PLEASE'Jingle Bells' he cries and a made-up song about farts (wellalerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, they are boys!) But when it comes to singing or speaking in front who plucks him out of other people - wellthe dirty water using his cane, that's which might look just a different matterbit like an old cricket bat. So when Reg is a kind soul and he's asked to say dries Ted off and warms him up with a few words at the end nice bowl of the school concert he finds himself growing more and more afraidbroth. Will he find the courage to stand on stage and end the show?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579122</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie SandallB08R7LXQ9S|title=Copycat BearRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Mango has a best friend who Remy is an enormous bear called Bluefeeling miserable. Mango finds herself getting frustrated as Blue likes to copy everything that Mango doesHe's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, Will the two friends be able to get along happily?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444901575</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil Griffiths and Judith Blake|title=Ringo The Flamingo|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Ringo the flamingo isn't quite like the other flamingos: together with his legs don't work. His mum sidekicks Ryan and dad help Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him lots, and as names because he gets older, so do his friends is short and the rest of the flockhas small eyes. Life is mostly good for Ringo, They are mean but there they are not stupid. They are times careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when he wishes he could fly like the othersother kids are around. One daySo, when Remy reacts, it looks as danger approaches, Ringo gets though he was the opportunity to be a heroinstigator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908702028</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sharon Rentta|title=A Day With The Animal Firefighters|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Moose has joined the animal firefighters, and And then he's very excited. He's set for a day of daring rescues, blaring sirens, and haring around town gets into trouble at top speed. He school and his friends are awfully brave, and itthe teachers don's a good thing too, as they're going t believe him when he tries to have a busy day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407116452</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Beatrice Rodriguez|title=The Fishing Trip|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Fox, chicken and their not-yet-hatched egg have run out of food. Chicken decides to go out to try and get them something to eat, leaving fox to take care of the egg. Poor chicken faces big, scary birds and a giant sea monster..explain what happened.will she ever manage to find any food? And what will she find if she does manage to get home again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579246</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|author=Jo Hodgkinson|title=My Friend Nigel|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Billy is a bit fed up of his parents constantly practising their magic especially when most of their spells go wrong. He is a little curious about all of their strange assortment of ingredients though: ''Jellied bugs and pickled flies,''<br>''Bubbling potions,''<br>''Lizard tails,'' ''And what was this?''<br>''A little snail?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394040</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Foreman1471191303|title=Friends|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Cat is a cat and Bubble is a goldfish and as Cat points out at the start of this story, there are quite a few differences between them. The main one is that Cat is able to wander wild and free whereas Bubble is stuck in his tank and can only swim round and round or up and down. Because Bubble is his friend, Cat finds this quite upsetting; so much so, that he tells the reader: ''...he just looks at me and sighs.''<br>''He is my friend. He breaks my heart.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden|title=Animal Antics|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=It's the run-up to World Sport Week. Thanks to a rules challenge (presumably by a lawyer bird), animals are to be admitted for the first time. With much flapping of wings and clattering of hooves, the animals proceed to turn this Olympics-esque event into a whitewash for the non-human competitors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905434960</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewInvisible|author=Angela Mitchell and Sarah Horne|title=The Jelly That Wouldn't WobbleTom Percival
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|summary=Everyone knows that jellies are supposed to wobble but what will happen when a particularly stubborn jelly refuses to do any such thing? To make matters worse, this This is the jelly that has been specially prepared for Princess Lolly's 89th birthday party. As she is the sort of princess who likes to get her own way this poses a bit story of a problem. So desperate is she for her jelly to wobble thoughIsobel, she offers a reward of a thousand and one chocolate sovereigns for anyone little girl who can come up with made a solutionbig difference. Lots of suggestions are made including prodding it Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a walking stick and scaring it. Howeververy cold house, it is the youngest guest at the party who eventually comes up with an idea that works but Ibecause her parents couldn'll leave you to guess what it might be!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184886079X</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Malachy Doyle and Gwen Millward|title=The Snuggle Sandwich|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The day starts very peacefully as Annie wakes in her own bed and listens t afford to put the silence. She decides that it's the perfect time to creep into her parents' bedheating on:
''They're a cosy snuggle sandwich.''<br>''She's Ice curled across the inside of the jam window and they're crept up the corner of the bread!bedpost.''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393907</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kristyna Litten|title=Chickens CanThe family didn't See in the Dark|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When a little chick called Pippa hears her teacher, Mr Benedict, say: ''As sure as eggs is eggs, chickens can't see in the dark.'' she is extremely disappointed. She thinks that not being able go to see in the dark is a terrible thing cinema or on holidays but they had each other and desperately wants to prove her teacher wrongthey were happy. There are a number of characters who might be able to help such as the wise Mr Owl or Miss Featherbrain who runs Then the library. The only problem is that day came when they all laugh at Pippa and reinforces the notion that chickens cancouldn't see in afford the dark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756796</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Izy Penguin|title=Grandma Bendy|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Grandma Bendy is definitely not like other grannies: ''She is incredibly bendy.''<br>''She rent for the house and they had twisty, twizzly arms''<br>''and super, stretchy legs.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860773</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss|title=Diary of a Spider|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It's not an easy life being a spider. You have to avoid vacuum cleaners, daddy longlegs, and people with big shoes. There are good things too: you get move to have fun with your best friend, Fly, and spend time with your loving familythe far side of the city. ''Diary This part of a Spider'' takes us through a few months in the life of a young spidercity was cold, taking in the fun sad and lonely and adventureIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007455925</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom SlaughterNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Boat WorksOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Imagine seeing just a little bit of a boat. It's not enough for you to decide whether it's big or smallMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, or what it doeswho lives in Beartown, but on the opposite page there's another clueis obsessed with bears. 'I have two oars' - and there they are for all to seeShe collects books about bears. But look more closelyHer favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. You can fold that second page Every night, she looks out for yet another clue: 'I have a rope which ties me of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the dock' and there's the ropebear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, strong and hairy, with a complex knot. Now you can fold out the second clue to reveal colourful painted bear that his is a rowboat, by the name of Nelly, tied up lives at the dockher school. Neat, eh?She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609052153</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|author=Todd H Doodler|title=Bear's Underwear Mystery: A Count-and-Find-it Adventure|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bear receives a mysterious message: 'Follow the trail of underwear. Find all TEN and you'll be THERE'. He's delighted to be involved in a mystery and goes off hunting for the white pair which is number one. Once they are found he's off in search of the pair with blue stripes, then the pair with green spots, another in purple plaid and so on... Each page has a number tab for extra fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052048</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Wiesner|title=The Three Pigs|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Everyone knows the story of the Three Little Pigs, but in this version, when the wolf comes along and huffs and puffs, he actually blows the little pigs right out of the story. In fact, they float across a number of pages before eventually ending up in the middle of ''Hey diddle diddle!'' However, they don't find this nursery rhyme to their liking so they move on to a story about a prince who kills a dragon. Having just escaped from their own dangerous enemy, the three pigs realise that they can't possibly leave the dragon to be slain, so they take him with them right the way back to their own story where, with the help of their new friend, they definitely don't allow the wolf in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394059</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Debbie Singleton and Holly Swain|title=The King who Wouldn't Sleep|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary='Many years ago, in a palace far across the sea, there lived a king, a queen and, of course, a beautiful princess'. In fact the princess is so beautiful and the king loves her so much that he resolves to watch over her every single day and night until he is able to find her the perfect suitor. In true traditional tale style, princes travel from far and wide to try and win the hand of the princess and, more importantly, the approval of the king. Unfortunately, even though there are all sorts of princes – tall, short, strong, weak, blond, bald and so Move on – not one is good enough for the king's much loved daughter. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390061</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Waddell and Leonie Lord|title=The Super Swooper Dinosaur|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary='One day, Hal and his little dog, Billy, were out playing when the sky darkened and...' The next thing Hal knows is that an enormous winged super swooper dinosaur has landed in his garden and wants to play. Well, you don't really want to argue with a dinosaur that you have only just met so Hal agrees. The first game that the super swooper suggest is Hide-and-seek but it soon becomes apparent that it won't be very successful as the dinosaur is too big to hide anywhere in the garden and is easily found by Hal every time. It's time to think of something else but the next idea, dino-dancing, is equally unsuccessful when Hal's new playmate ends up dancing on the roof. Paddling is equally problematic when the super swooper lands in the little paddling pool with an enormous splash which completely soaks Hal's mum|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408307804</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]