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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ole KonneckeAdam Stower|title=Anton and the Battle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Anyone who has spent any amount of time with small children will know of the 'well I'm taller than you!' arguments which seem to appear, all of a sudden, and carry on for years! Everything becomes a competition, and it's all about who is stronger or bigger or can eat more beans or can run the fastest or jump the highest or has the noisiest baby brother...This story captures the way these arguments begin, and escalate, as we meet Anton Murray and his friend Luke and see them imagining bigger and bigger ways of being 'better' than each other!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579262</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michel Van Zeveren|title=That's Mine!Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=I've come to look forward to picture books published by Gecko Press. They always seem Murray is supposed to come up with something be a bit differenthumble, tidy and this book friendly cat, one who is no exception. This is the story of an eggable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, found by a small green frog who claims it for whatever takes his ownfancy next of the two. But then snake says ithe's a bad magician's cat, so his eggfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and eagle says 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 itdrops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's his egg. Just whose egg is it?!turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579270</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Banner1732898766|title=More The Adventures of Birpus and More Ant Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and BeeIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Right at the beginning, when youWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're just starting to read books which have more words than pictures, you need a book thatrunning for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's structured to help youright behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. You need a book which is comfy to hold in small hands and which has a firm cover so that everything keeps ''straight(Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. ) You need to share the reading Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and to know which words you're going to read and you might perhaps appreciate when a ''hint'' in the form ladder of a picture which will help you to get the word all on your ownmoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. Most of all though, you need to have a proper story and a feeling that you've achieved something when you get They climbed up to the end. You need Ant Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and BeeGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266732</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Johanne MercierB0CC9W7GLR|title=Arthur On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and the EarthwormsJenny Fionda|rating=35
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|summary=Arthur has got himself a new job. He might Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be only seven at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a boy can never start too soonlarge slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. He's going to be selling earthworms from a table at the side On top of the road and ice was a polar bear. As the idea came when his pet duck started pulling up ice bumped onto the worms. They were his favourite foodsand, you see the bear woke and on a rainy day you could find a lot of them just near with wobbly legs moved from the surfaceice. He and Grandad managed to get quite Kit was all for making a few worms togetherrun for it, but trade wasn't very brisk on Teal knew that the first bear was hungry and the woman who was determined to buy his pet duck did rather scare gave himone apple and then another. But He obviously needed to be taken home on the next day, trade picked up (although some of the customers did look suspiciously ''family'') bus and given a good meal and then the big order came insomewhere to sleep...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912177</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd1913839656|title=I Love YouLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee
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|summary=This is Todd was excited about spending the fourth ''I love …'' publication from weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the prolific Giles Andreae, this time partnered by illustrator Emma Doddbest beetle juice. Judging by the little trike the child rides, this book is aimed at one He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and two year old childrenthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. It would be a good choice for a child not yet up for a simple story, since here, She had promised to take him to the language is Friday Night Club at the emotional narrativelocal community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. Repetitive rhyming couplets explore familiar aspects of a young child’s world. The best books for pre-language children at bedtime secure and settleAt home, his only friend was his mum and the appeal of this book is in its predictable rhythmn and happy emotion, rather than a challenging vocabulary or exciting story linehe wondered why that could be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408324326</amazonuk>Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hallfridur Olafsdottir and Porarinn Mar Baldursson1529504775|title=Maximus Musicus Visits the Orchestra|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=One day Maxi wanders into a rehearsal of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, where he is entranced to hear Ravel’s Bolero. He encounters most of the orchestral instruments and there’s a lot of whimsical humour as Maxi moves from instrument to instrument. Eventually he falls asleep on the stage, tired out by the excitement of his adventures. He wakes to a loud booming noise as the beginning of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is played, and he finds that the orchestra is in concert. He scuttles down into a packed auditorium. At the end of the concert, Maximus joins in the standing ovation which precedes the stirring home-grown encore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1937330176</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Tracey Corderoy Amy Sparkes and Joe Berger|title=Whizz Pop, Granny Stop!Katie Hickey
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|summary=Grannies come Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for a lot of negative pressit as cash was tight at home. Absent-minded geriatric Gradually, witch with a black catDavid learned to stand up, spoiling use the kidsbus for support, always getting and walk behind it wrong ... you know Many decades later, Elsie brought the stereotypes. Well I’m fighting back. I latched onto this bookbus, of coursenow damaged and rusted, as a granny. And in this neatly rhyming storyto the Repair Shop, Granny, as seen through hoping that the practical eyes of experts there could make it so that her small grand-daughter, is all these things as well as being notably peculiargrandchildren could play with it. Tracey Corderoy has pretty much got us metaphorically taped! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631314</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Burleigh and Mary Grandpre1529504767|title=Flight of the Last DragonThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=3.5
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|summary=Told Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in rhyme, this is the tale of the very last dragon on earth1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. He hides away, deep underground, remembering She needn't have worried though as she went to the times when the dragons ruled the earth until one day a voice from the heavens calls him, summons him, up home of Mr and awayMrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to fly far, far into the sky her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and leave this world behindbegan to enjoy her life. I rather like She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the idea of dragonsdecorations on the Christmas tree. They're one of those mythical creatures that I still sort of hope might actually be real! My daughter likes dragons too, although when she saw The best surprise happened the title of this book she was prepared for a sad story, sensing that we weren't heading towards a happy endingfollowing 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
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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 '''Princess Fussyshouts''' and my, doesnwe know exactly what't everyone know about it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052501</amazonuk>s going to happen next.
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{{Frontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Plenderleith1776574338|title=The Silly SatsumaLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|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
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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
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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
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|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!)
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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
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|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!)
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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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|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.
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
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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
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|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|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
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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
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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}}