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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tamsyn Murray and Judi AbbotAdam Stower|title=Snug as a BugMurray and Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=When George looked out the window at the rainMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, he was a bit reluctant one who is able to go out. That was until sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his mum told him that they would be taking lots fancy next of extra cuddles that would keep him lovely and warmthe two. In fact, But he would be as 'snug as s a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a bug rolled up in hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a rug'. Added to that he would be 'like two cosy bats in thick woolly hats' world of frightening adventure and even 'as hot as three pigs in big purple wigs'whiffs. This list of how snug he will time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be keeps being added to all the way up to ten when Mum tells George that honest, but he will be 'tucked s turned up like... Ten toasty geese all sharing one fleeceand he'. ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071092</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross1732898766|title=The Wind in the WallowsAdventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=IWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they'm always ready re running for a fun story when I see that [[their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about:Categorythe 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:Jeanne Willis|Jeanne Willis]] and [[:Category:Tony Ross|Tony Ross]] have come together to do another picture bookit won't end well. ) This is a particularly fun one to shareFortunately, especially with kids who enjoy anything to do with farts they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and stinkyness when a ladder of moss andvines was lowered for them, most importantly, they escaped. They climbed up to the tussle over who is responsible for Tree Wee homes high up in the terrible smell!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394539</amazonuk>tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Freedman and Ben CortB0CC9W7GLR|title=Pirates Love Underpants|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=On the Beach: The Black Bloomer and her crew of scurvy pirates are off in search of treasure, but this is no ordinary booty. These underwear-loving scoundrels are searching for the fabled Pants of Gold, which can be found in Big Knickers Bay. Following the route on their trusty treasure map, they lift anchor and set sail for the island. Unfortunately, when they arrive, it seems that another crew have beaten them to it! Armed with a sharp cutlass and a wicked glint in his eye, the Captain has a plan to reclaim the Golden Underpants for himself... Don’t worry, this is a children’s book; you will have to read it to find out exactly what the Captain does with the cutlass...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707265X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWinter Visitor|author=Jane Simmons|title=Come On Daisy!Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=Daisy the duckling is having too much fun exploring the riverbank Kit and Teal were just beginning to listen to Mamma Duck. Mamma has told her wonder whether it was better to stay closebe at home, bored but where is warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the fun in that? After allsand, there are lots of interesting creatures living in the river bear woke and Daisy wants to make friends with themwobbly legs moved from the ice. Then Kit was all for making a run for it, of course, there are but Teal knew that the giant lily padsbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. Daisy loves He obviously needed to bounce be taken home on the lily padsbus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. ''Bouncy, bouncy bouncy. Bong bong!'' But when Daisy stops playing, she notices something. She is all alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843622726</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=SAMI1913839656|title=Flip-A-Shape: Go!Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=Packed into this sturdy sixteen-page board book you'll find a fun way for toddlers to develop colour and shape recognition. In ''Go!'' the theme is transport and you'll see the yellow blade of the digger becomes Todd was excited about spending the sail on a boat as weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the book is openedbest beetle juice. Similarly a circle He packed two pairs of a bicycle wheel becomes a balloon as the page is turned overdungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. The blue square of a train cab becomes She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the purple body of a lorrylocal community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. The yellow rectangle of a bus becomes the red body of a pull-truckAt home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. I'm sure Grandma thought that you get the picture!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053389</amazonuk>it might be because he looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katherine Lodge1529504775|title=Let's Find Mimi In the CityThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Mimi the Mouse Elsie and her family are going on an adventure in little brother David loved to go to the big city, visiting shops, cafes park and parks watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the wayside of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. Mimi wears One day Elsie spotted a bright red bow on top of bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her head money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and a pair of pretty pink fairy wings on her backwalk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so you would think she would stand out in a crowdthat her grandchildren could play with it. But does she?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444909711</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Rickerty1529504767|title=Monkey NutThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Two curious little spiders find a monkey nut lying on 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. She needn't have worried though as she went to the groundhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. They don’t know what it is, but they do know that they both want it Gradually she relaxed and that they don’t want began to shareenjoy her life. But what is this strange, knobbly object? Is She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it a chair? A musical instrument? Maybe a boat? Whatever it is, came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the two little spiders are not decorations on the only ones interestedChristmas tree. A much bigger, hairier spider is lurking in The best surprise happened the shadows, waiting for the chance to grab the monkey nut for himself, but will he succeed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075764</amazonuk>following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David McKee1916459943|title=Elmer and Aunt ZeldaSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=Elmer the patchwork elephant was reminded by his cousin Wilbur that Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they had promised all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to visit Aunt Zeldasleep: instead, who is getting old he just lies on his blanket and a little bit deaf''wails''. The sea offers to help. Their visit is peppered with misheard words It rocks Baby gently and misunderstandings but there’s an obvious affection between the two generationswaves sing ''hush, hush''. Aunt Zelda is very proud Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the two youngsterssound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, and Elmer and Wilbur just love Zelda la lay...'' And for what she isa moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. There’s never hint of impatience or frustration, no matter how wrong Zelda hears Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what the two young elephants have 's going to say. But - just in case Elmer was feeling at all superior - he finds when he gets home that he’s been rather forgetful toohappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842707515</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ole Konnecke140639131X|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 A Practical Present 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 and his friend Luke and see them imagining bigger and bigger ways of being 'better' than each other!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579262</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPhilippa Pheasant|author=Michel Van Zeveren|title=That's Mine!Briony May Smith
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|summary=IPhilippa Pheasant was 've come 'tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to look forward cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to picture books published by Gecko Pressthe mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. They always seem Philippa wasn't a bird to come 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 with something a bit different, and this book is no exceptionsimilar herself. This is Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the story of an egg, found by a small green frog who claims it for his ownbenefits were obvious. But then snake says it's his egg, All the animals used the crossing and eagle says it's his eggHedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight. Just whose egg is it?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579270</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Banner1776574338|title=More and More Ant Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and BeeBei Lynn
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|summary=Right Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the beginning, when youtop of tower blocks don're just starting t even need to read books which have more words than picturesgo downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, you need isn't it? What could be a book that's structured more fun way of going to help you. school? You need a book which There is comfy to hold in small hands and which has a firm cover so that everything keeps ''straight''problem, though. You need to share Leilong isn't happy in the reading and to know which words youcity: he're going s always having to read be careful about where he puts his feet and you might perhaps appreciate a – because he''hint'' in the form of s longer than a picture which will help you tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to get the word all on your ownand traffic regularly gets snarled up. Most of all though, you need to have a proper story and a feeling The school decides that youhe can've achieved something when you get to t be the end. You need Ant and Beebus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266732</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Johanne Mercier1776574028|title=Arthur and the EarthwormsBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=34
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|summary=Arthur has got himself I love a new job. good board book! He might be only seven but ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a boy can never start too soon. Heniche market: it's going for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to be selling earthworms have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from a table at the side of the road and the idea came when his pet duck started pulling up the wormseach one. They were his favourite food, you see We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and on becomes a rainy day you could find a lot of them just near the surface''balletphant''. He The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and Grandad managed to get quite then dries off with a hair drier becomes a few worms together, but trade wasn't very brisk on the first and the woman 'fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who was determined to buy drops his pet duck did rather scare him. But the next day, trade picked up (although some of the customers did look suspiciously ice cream cone is a ''familycrynoceros''(think about it!) and then the big order came in The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912177</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd1838226834|title=I Love YouCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=3.54
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|summary=This is the fourth ''I love …'' publication It was one of those memories we treasure from the prolific Giles Andreae, this time partnered by illustrator Emma Doddour childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. Judging by They're there to undo all the little trike the child rides, this book is aimed at one and two year old children. It would be a good choice for a child not yet up for a simple story, since herethat parents do, so the language is the emotional narrativetrips out were always so much fun. Repetitive rhyming couplets explore familiar aspects of a A young child’s world. The best books for pre-language children at bedtime secure and settle, and boy was going to the appeal of this book is in its predictable rhythmn and happy emotioncarnival with his Grandad, rather than a challenging vocabulary or exciting story line. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408324326</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|authortitle=Tracey Corderoy Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Joe BergerHare|titleauthor=Whizz Pop, Granny Stop!Cordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Grannies come in for When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a lot of negative pressstrong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Absent Rabbit developed intelligence -minded geriatricbut, witch with a black catunfortunately, spoiling not the kids, always getting ability to use it wrong well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. you know the stereotypes You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Well I’m fighting back Things are not always as they seem. I latched onto this book, of course, as a granny. 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'll tell you how it came about. Tracey Corderoy has pretty much got us metaphorically taped! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631314</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Burleigh and Mary GrandpreRob Keeley|title=Flight of the Last DragonCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=3.54
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|summary=Told in rhyme Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, this Lily is the tale of the very last dragon 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 earthtrees. He hides awayInfuriated, deep underground, remembering the times when the dragons ruled Lily checks with the earth until one day a voice from the heavens calls himteacher, summons him, up who explains that fruits grow on trees and awayvegetables, to fly farlike carrots, far into grow in the sky and leave this world behindground. Jordan says, "I rather like the idea of dragons. They're one of those mythical creatures that I still sort of hope might actually be realdid try to tell her, Miss! My daughter likes dragons too, although when she saw the title of this book she was prepared for a sad story, sensing that we weren't heading towards a happy ending" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399252002</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harriet Ziefert and Travis FosterB09FFJF8YS|title=The Princess and the Peas and Carrots|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Rosebud is a good girl, for the most part, neat and tidy and a happy little girl, at which times her daddy calls her ''Good Princess Rosebud''. But then sometimes things go a little bit wrong, or they arenYou Can't quite as Rosebud likes them, so perhaps there's a hole in her tights or snow in her boots or, heavens above, her peas are touching her carrots on the plate at dinner timeWear Panties! When this happens Rosebud becomes ''Princess Fussy'' and my, doesn't everyone know about it(No More Nappies!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052501</amazonuk>}} {{newreview)|author=Allan Plenderleith|title=The Silly SatsumaJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
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|summary=Once ''For the big, grownup girls out there was a boy called Eric Greenbogle. I'd like to be able to tell you that he was a good boy, but that would be wrong. Eric was a bad boy and we all know what happens to bad boys on Christmas morningthe potty masters in training, don"You Can't we? Good boys Wear Panties!" is a cry (and girlsthe big-girl kind!) find lots of presents under the tree, but Father Christmas knows who has been good toilet triumph and who has been bad and Eric was about to be taught a lessonpersevering panty pride. There was just one present under the tree for Eric: a satsuma. 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613665</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=Chae Strathie Justine Avery and Ben CortNaday Meldova|title=JumblebumEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Johnny McNess is Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a young boy whose bedroom child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is a decided mess! He has clothes lying everywhere. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and toys scattered around, food discarded everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in the strangest of places her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and it all stinks! Disgusting! But his mum has come in gently and just warned Johnny about calmly, with the Jumblebum monster who she feels familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is sure to be attracted by all this rubbishperfectly normal. Can anything really get Johnny to tidy his room?Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407108018</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Tony RossB09BG8V3Q6|title=Fluff the Farting FishWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Elvie wanted a puppy but she was still rather surprised when her mother agreed. Unfortunately what her mother brought home wasn’t a puppy but a goldfish. Now it wasn’t just a pet to cuddle and play with that Elvie had been after - she’d wanted to train ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the dog. Being a resourceful young lady she decided to train latest release in the goldfish instead. ''SitEverybody Potties!'' was always going series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to be rather more than take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a challengeworthy aim, but Elvie discovered that much could be achieved with Fluff’s bubbles. Go on - as any frustrated parent will tell you know exactly what I mean! Soon Fluff was doing mental arithmetic and finally singing. Before long he was in demand at pop concerts and for television appearances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395276</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue HendraB07GZ81J7C|title=No-Bot, The Robot With No BottomWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=The prospects look good for a story when Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're already laughing at the front cover, never mind whatgoing to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I's insided better tell you a bit more about Fred. There we Fred is a snake and even those of us who have him, our little red robot, holding onto his bottom and giving a coy-looking smile phobia about snakes are going to warm to us as readershim. Already we're wondering how He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he ends up with no bottom, could breathe and whether the inside immediately became part of the story will be as funny as family, to the outsideextent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. No-Bot, happily, doesn't disappointAnd that was where the problem started. You canFred didn't go wrong, really, with a funny red robot who has lost his bottom can you? have any road sense. Just saying the word 'bottom' to small children usually reduces them to giggles!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074458</amazonuk>Or brakes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison Ritchie Justine Avery and Mike ByrneNaday Meldova|title=Jack's Mega Machines: The Dinosaur DiggerEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=3.54
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|summary=Jack the mechanic loves to repair broken vehicles in his workshopCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But the magical Rally Road Workshop is no ordinary garage. Whenever Jack takes one of his vehicles on a test drivereally, he is wondrously transported why shouldn't it be? We all have to incredible locations or different time periodslearn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small.Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075683</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lou Rhodes Justine Avery and Tori ElliottNaday Meldova|title=The PhlunkNo, No, No!
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|summary=What is a Phlunk? I know that you're wonderingThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. Well, wonder no more for And nothing could be truer of this book will tell you all about the Phlunk, who lives on a planet shaped like a spoonlatest from Justine Avery, looks a bit like a cat but who has very, very large earsBookbag favourite. Why, you ''re now askingNo, does he have such very large ears? WellNo, itNo!''s all is based around the better to hear you withsimplest text imaginable. ''No, no, of courseno! And the Phlunk hears everythingOkay, from everybodyokay. Yes, all over the world!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095736900X</amazonuk>}}you may.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Buckley and Dan Santat194812467X|title=Kel Gilligan's Daredevil Stunt ShowThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Kel Gilligan is Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a daredevilwalk. He... wait Kirelle is dressed for itall weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat... eats BROCCOLI! He even does his poos on As they walk to the top of the pottyhill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. What It's a brave soulfarm shop! What But this is a farm shop with a hero! Kel faces difference: all the traumas of childhoodstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, with aplombKirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>141970379X</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross0995647895|title=I Want a Boyfriend!Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=When the Little Princess sees the Maid picking Sadie's mother always said that she was a flower and handing it to the Generaldreamer, her mind never on what she demands to know whyshould be doing. It turns out that She lives by the General is the Maid’s boyfriend River Thames at Greenwich and he looks after hershe loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Well, on hearing this, the Little Princess declares at the top of her voice:
''I WANT A BOYFRIEND!Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1849394652''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''</amazonukbr>''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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Postgate and Sam Childs1782227741|title=Friends in the SnowLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=When Lucy’s dad offers to paint her bedroom wallsOne day, she is adamant that she only wants them to be whiteGold Ted falls into a puddle. He is It's quite a little surprised by her choice thinking that just white deep puddle and the water is a little bit boringswirling. However, Lucy jokes that it’s not just white because there Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is actually sucked down a white monster hiding drain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the white snowsewer, Ted starts to panic. Her dad agrees ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and before long she has alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a freshly painted bedroombit like an old cricket bat. The only problem Reg is that, when she tries to go to sleep, she wishes that she hadn’t mentioned the monster because a kind soul and he keeps her awake dries Ted off and warms him up with his grunting and growlinga nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407115391</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Griffiths and Melanie SiegelB08R7LXQ9S|title=The Best Present Ever!Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Long ago and far away lived a kind and generous King and Queen in a land where everyone was well treated and happyRemy is feeling miserable. One day the Queen tells her delighted husband that she is to have a babyHe's let himself down ''again''. The King decides that school bully Jayden, together with his lovely wife deserves the very best present ever to mark the happy eventsidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. So begins a search by the King’s messengers throughout the country and across the world for the perfect gift for the QueenThey are mean but they are not stupid. Beautiful gifts They are brought careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the palace from all over the globe for other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the King to inspectinstigator. As And then he is about to select gets into trouble at school and the teachers don''best present ever'' a poor young fisherman arrives and incredibly the gift that t believe him when he brings might be exactly tries to explain what the King is looking for!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908702060</amazonuk>happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Sharratt1471191303|title=Fancy Dress ChristmasThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=45
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|summary=Who This is who at the Christmas party? All the animals have come in fancy dressstory of Isobel, so can you guess a little girl who is inside each costume? Someone is dressed as made a snowman, someone is dressed as an angelbig difference. Someone is even dressed as Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a candle! Can you tell who each one is? Lift very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the flap and see...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407115898</amazonuk>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane HisseyNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Little Bear's TrousersOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=When Little Bear wakes up one sunny morning to discover that he has lost his trousers he feels sure that he will find them quickly Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with the help of his friendsbears. She collects books about bears. HoweverHer favourite toy is Berisford, although Old Bear, Camela teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the others have all seen Little Bear’s trousers no-one knows where they are nowbear statue outside. So Little Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear sets off on , a journey to visit all his friends in search of his missing trouserscolourful painted bear that lives at her school. What She even has happened to them? Will Little Bear and his trousers be reunited?bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908177837</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}