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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tracey Corderoy and Joe BergerAdam Stower|title=Whizz Pop, Granny Stop!Murray and Bun
|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=Grannies come in for Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a lot large slab of negative presssilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. Absent-minded geriatric As the ice bumped onto the sand, witch the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a black catrun for it, spoiling but Teal knew that the kids, always getting it wrong ..bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. you know He obviously needed to be taken home on the stereotypes. Well I’m fighting back. I latched onto this book, of course, as bus and given a grannygood meal and somewhere to sleep. And in this neatly rhyming story, Granny, as seen through the practical eyes of her small grand-daughter, is all these things as well as being notably peculiar. Tracey Corderoy has pretty much got us metaphorically taped! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631314</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Burleigh and Mary Grandpre1913839656|title=Flight of the Last DragonLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
|rating=3.5
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|summary=Told in rhymeTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, this is not least because she made the tale best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the very last dragon on earthFriday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. He hides awayAt home, deep underground, remembering his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the times when buses along the dragons ruled side of the earth until one 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 voice from bus in the heavens calls him, summons him, up toy shop window which would help David - and awaywas happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to fly farstand up, far into use the sky bus for support, and leave this world walk behindit. I rather like Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the idea of dragonsexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. TheyShe needn're one of those mythical creatures that I still sort of hope might actually be real! My daughter likes dragons too, although when t have worried though as she saw went to the title home of this book she was prepared for a sad storyMr and Mrs Russell, sensing that we werenwho couldn't heading towards a happy endinghave been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399252002</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harriet Ziefert and Travis Foster1916459943|title=The Princess and the Peas and CarrotsSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
|rating=4
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|summary=Rosebud is Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a good girlsqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, for the most part, neat he just lies on his blanket and tidy ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and a happy little girl, at which times her daddy calls her the waves sing ''Good Princess Rosebudhush, hush''. But then sometimes things go Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a little bit wrongsandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, or they arenla lay...'t quite as Rosebud likes them, so perhaps there's And for a hole in her tights or snow in her boots or, heavens above, her peas are touching her carrots on the plate at dinner time! moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. When this happens Rosebud becomes Then a seagull '''shouts'Princess Fussy'' and my, doesnwe know exactly what't everyone know about it!s going to happen next.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1609052501</amazonuk>Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Plenderleith1776574338|title=The Silly SatsumaLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Once there was a boy called Eric GreenbogleEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. IChildren who live at the top of tower blocks don'd like t even need to be able to tell you that he was a good boy, but that would be wronggo downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. Eric was a bad boy and we all know what happens to bad boys on Christmas morningIt's perfect, donisn't weit? Good boys (and girls) find lots What could be a more fun way of presents under the tree, but Father Christmas knows who has been good and who has been bad and Eric was about going to be taught school? There is a lessonproblem, though. There was just one present under Leilong isn't happy in the tree for Ericcity: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a satsumatennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. Oh, there was something else - there was a note from Father Christmas explaining why there were no presents. Eric was furious. Eric cried, but then..The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613665</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Banner1776574028|title=Ant and BeeBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott
|rating=4
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|summary=When you learn to read I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it 's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to be funhave realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. You We have to master the skill but it mustnelephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant't be '. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a 'too'fluffalo' daunting or you're . The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''notcrynoceros'' going to enjoy (think about it and - worst of all - you might be put off reading for life. !) ItThe pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''s best if you can share the reading until you get to grips with decoding whatsm.......'s on the page, so if an adult could read most of the words but you read others to which you've already been introduced and which are in a different colour then that is going to be a help. If the words are introduced with a nice big picture and if they appear in alphabetical orderOK, then thatlet's going to be fun, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266716</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chae Strathie and Ben Cort1838226834|title=JumblebumCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
|rating=4
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|summary=Johnny McNess is a young boy whose bedroom is a decided mess! He has clothes lying everywhere, and toys scattered around, food discarded in the strangest It was one of places and it those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all stinks! Disgusting! But his mum has come in and just warned Johnny about the Jumblebum monster who she feels is sure to be attracted by all this rubbishgood that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. Can anything really get Johnny A young boy was going to tidy the carnival with his room?Grandad, who told him:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407108018</amazonuk>''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|authortitle=Michael Rosen Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Tony RossHare|titleauthor=Fluff the Farting FishCordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Elvie wanted a puppy but she When the world was still rather surprised when her mother agreedmade, the animals were given gifts. Unfortunately what her mother brought home wasn’t a puppy but Bear was given strength so that he could become a goldfishprotector. Now it wasn’t just Water Spider received a pet to cuddle and play with strong web that Elvie even fire could not burn. Owl had been after excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - she’d wanted but, unfortunately, not the ability to train the doguse it well. Being a resourceful young lady she decided He liked to train the goldfish insteadtrick other animals. ''Sit'' He was also jealous which was always going how he came to be rather more than in a challenge, but Elvie discovered that much could be achieved race with Fluff’s bubblesTurtle. Go on - you know exactly what I mean! You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Soon Fluff was doing mental arithmetic and finally singingThings are not always as they seem. Before long he was in demand at pop concerts and for television appearancesI'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395276</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue HendraRob Keeley|title=No-Bot, The Robot With No BottomCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=The prospects look good for a story when you're already laughing at the front cover, never mind what's inside Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. There we have himShe likes carrots, our little red robotbroccoli, holding onto his bottom cabbage and giving a coy-looking smile to us as readersaubergines. Already we're wondering how he ends When her friends at school turn up with no bottomtheir noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and whether the inside of the story will be as funny as the outsidehow nice to eat. No-BotOne day, happilypoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, doesn't disappointwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. You can't go wrongInfuriated, reallyLily checks with the teacher, with a funny red robot who has lost his bottom can you? Just saying explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the word 'bottom' ground. Jordan says, "I did try to small children usually reduces them to gigglestell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857074458</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Ritchie and Mike ByrneB09FFJF8YS|title=JackYou Can's Mega Machines: The Dinosaur Diggert Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Jack ''For the mechanic loves to repair broken vehicles big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in his workshop. But training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the magical Rally Road Workshop is no ordinary garage. Whenever Jack takes one big-girl kind!) of his vehicles on a test drive, he is wondrously transported to incredible locations or different time periodstoilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075683</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=Lou Rhodes Justine Avery and Tori ElliottNaday Meldova|title=The PhlunkEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
|rating=4
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|summary=What is Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a Phlunk? I know child that youdoesn're wonderingt find them irresistibly funny. WellFunny to talk about and joke about, wonder no more for this book will tell that is. But horribly embarrassing if you all about let one go at the Phlunkwrong time. In class, who lives on a planet shaped like a spoonsay, looks a bit like a cat but who has very, very large earswhen everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. Why, At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'re now asking' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does he have such very large ears? Well, it: ''Everybody Toots''s all the better to hear you with, of course! |isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} And the Phlunk hears everything, from everybody, all over the world{{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|amazonukrating=<amazonuk>095736900X</amazonuk>4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|authortitle=Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Carolyn Leigh When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Amy June BatesMended|titleauthor=Flying to Neverland with Peter PanCotton|rating=34.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=There's something perennially magical about the story of Peter PanMeet Fred. It's timelessWell, actually, this story of a little boy who doesnyou't want re going to grow up, and who lives in a land full of pirates and fairies and mermaids and crocodilesbe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. ItBut I's one m getting ahead of those stories that stays with myself: I'd better tell you, which a bit more about Fred. Fred is why it's a classic, I suppose! snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. In this version He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the story is told through family, to the lyrics of two songs from extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the musical ''Peter Pan'problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. The songs ''I'm Flying'' and ''Never Never Land'' are combined together to tell the story as far as the children flying to NeverlandOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052498</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Buckley Justine Avery and Dan SantatNaday Meldova|title=Kel Gilligan's Daredevil Stunt ShowEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
|rating=4
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|summary=Kel Gilligan is a daredevilCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. He... wait for But really, why shouldn't itbe? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small... eats BROCCOLI! He even does his poos on Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the potty. What a brave soul! What a hero! Kel faces all moon take turns in the traumas of childhood, with aplomb.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>141970379X</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{Frontpage
|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova
|title=No, No, No!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.
''No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable.
That''I WANT A BOYFRIENDs it!''But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849394652</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Postgate and Sam Childs194812467X|title=Friends in the SnowThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
|rating=4
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|summary=When Lucy’s dad offers to paint Kirelle and her bedroom walls, she is adamant that she only wants them best friend Sam the cat decide to be whitego for a walk. He Kirelle is a little surprised by dressed for all weathers in her choice thinking that just white bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a little bit boringbig barn with a sign outside. However, Lucy jokes that it’s not just white because there It's a farm shop! But this is actually a white monster hiding in farm shop with a difference: all the white snowstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. Her dad agrees There are sheep and before long she has a freshly painted bedroomducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. The only problem is thatExcited, when she tries to Kirelle and Sam go to sleep, she wishes that she hadn’t mentioned the monster because he keeps her awake with his grunting and growlingshopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407115391</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0995647895
|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs
|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Griffiths and Melanie Siegel1782227741|title=The Best Present Ever!Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
|rating=4
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|summary=Long ago and far away lived One day, Gold Ted falls into a kind and generous King and Queen in puddle. It's quite a land where everyone was well treated deep puddle and happy. One day the Queen tells her delighted husband that she water is to have a babyswirling. The King decides that his lovely wife deserves the very best present ever Poor Ted starts to mark the happy event. So begins spin around and around and is sucked down a search by the King’s messengers throughout the country and across drain on the world for side of the perfect gift for the Queenstreet. Beautiful gifts are brought to the palace from all over the globe for Finding himself down in the King sewer, Ted starts to inspectpanic. As he is about to select the ''best present everOH HELP ME PLEASE'' a poor young fisherman arrives he cries and incredibly alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the gift that he brings dirty water using his cane, which might be exactly what the King look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is looking for!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908702060</amazonuk>a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick SharrattB08R7LXQ9S|title=Fancy Dress ChristmasRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
|rating=4
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|summary=Who Remy is who at the Christmas party? feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, All the animals together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have come in fancy dressbeen laughing at Remy, so calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can you guess who is inside each costume? Someone is dressed as a snowmansee and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, someone is dressed it looks as an angelthough he was the instigator. Someone is even dressed as a candle! Can you tell who each one is? Lift And then he gets into trouble at school and the flap and see..teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407115898</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler1471191303|title=The Highway RatInvisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=When you see This is the story of Isobel, a new book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler you know it's already set to be little girl who made a best seller and that you're big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in for a treat! Here Donaldson takes the refrain from ''The Highwayman'' by Alfred Noyes and weaves it into house - a story about a rather naughty rat who just canvery cold house, because her parents couldn't stop stealing everyone else's food!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124382</amazonuk>}}afford to put the heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane HisseyNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Old Bear StoriesOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=The Old Bear stories are delightful. This collection brings together five stories into one book, introducing us to Old Bear, Little Bear, Jolly Tall and all the other toy friends. The toys look like all those lovely old fashioned toys that Many children used to have, jointed teddy bears an obsession and fuzzy rabbitsSandy Lane, and the stories too have a sweetwho lives in Beartown, old fashioned appealis obsessed with bears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908759933</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|title=Tales for Great Grandchildren |rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I love old folk tales and fablesShe collects books about bears. The treasure chest of myth and legend contains universal storiesHer favourite toy is Berisford, as relevant today as they were in the ancient communities in which they were first tolda teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. They speak Every night, she looks out of love, loss, jealousy, courage, cowardice her bedroom window and grief. They wonder about says goodnight to the world in which we livebear statue outside. They offer explanationsEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, some magical, some plain common sense. They're joyful. They're sad. And sometimes they're frightening. They have all the light and shade a colourful painted bear that adds up to the human experiencelives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095692123X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}