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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Lyon and Vanina StarkoffAdam Stower|title=The Cautionary Tale of the Childe of HaleMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=There was Murray is supposed to be a giant humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who lived in Hale is able to sleep and if you care to you can visit the cottage eat and grave of John Middleton who reputedly topped nine feet tall eat and had to sleep with and, well, whatever takes his feet dangling out fancy next of his cottage windowsthe two. Rachel Lyon tells the lightly-fictionalised story of how the Childe - as But he was known - was taken up by the king, commanded to move to London and given every luxury. For 's a while he didnbad magician't regret leaving Hale at all - for once he was drys cat, slept in so his favourite bun has been turned into a comfortable bed hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and had clothes which fit him. He mixed with the royal family and the court - and life seemed goodcatflap they both use can chuck them out, until the day when not into the king commanded him to fight. This was bad enoughregular back garden, but even then the king's motives were not exactly as you might expect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860951</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicola Killen|title=I Got into a Crocodile|rating=3world of frightening adventure and whiffs.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A lonely child wishes for This time round it drops them into a little brother or sister to play withViking land, but ends up with where a crocodile instead. The crocodile troll hunter is messy and intrusive and soon starts making a nuisance of himselfexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, causing trouble at teatimeto be honest, bathtime but he's turned up and bedtime. Can the crocodile and the child get over their differences and become friends in the end?he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075780</amazonuk>0008561249

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Plenderleith1732898766|title=The Chicken Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and the EggIndre Ta (Illustrator)

|summary=Flo the chicken lived on a farm where When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they''every'' chicken laid one egg ''every'' day, except re running for Flo, that their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon ischasing them. She tried everything - youHe'll see s right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from the pictures that she really did try ''everything'', but nothing workedhis nostrils. Then one day (Please don't try this at home: it rained and all the other chickens went into the coop but there was no room for Flo - so there was nothing left for her to do but hide under a treewon't end well. ) As the rain came downFortunately, so did something else they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a really BIG egg landed right next to Flo. The other chickens were just a bit sceptical (the egg ladder of moss and vines was bigger than Flo)lowered for them, but Flo was the maternal type and she loved that egg and cared for it all through the yearthey escaped. Then came They climbed up to the night when a predator came calling at Tree Wee homes high up in the farm tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Flo wouldn't leave her egg..Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613711</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Courtney DicmasB0CC9W7GLR|title=Harold Finds A VoiceOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45

|summary=Harold is 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 parrot, quite snowy beach when a talented parrot in factlarge slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. He is able to mimic almost anything with great accuracy On top of the ice was a polar bear. From As the washing machine to ice bumped onto the toastersand, the vacuum cleaner to bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the phone Harold delights in imitating every single sound he hears in the apartment in which he livesice. One day Harold decides that he has tired of Kit was all these familiar sounds and ventures out into the big city where is he delighted to discover for making a whole range of exciting new sounds run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to copy. However something is worrying Harold; despite all be taken home on the many sounds he makes he is worried that he does not have bus and given a sound of his owngood meal and somewhere to sleep. Surely he must have a voice and if he does what does it sound like What else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846435498</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Middleton1913839656|title=ChristopherLet's BicycleCelebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee

|summary=Something is going on in Todd was excited about spending the shed! Christopher Nibble (the guinea pig) wonders what weekend with his dad is doing in theregrandmother, banging and crashing aboutnot least because she made the best beetle juice. And He packed two pairs of dungarees and his mum too has some secret sewing project going onfavourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. What on earth could they be up She had promised to take him to? Worry not, for all is revealed when Christopher is presented with his very own brand new recycled bicycle!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192758357</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jo Empson|title=Never Ever|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The little girl in this story is firmly convinced of the fact that nothing ever, EVER happens to her. Nothing interesting anyway. We meet her walking through Friday Night Club at the countryside with her stuffed rabbit, moaning local community centre and Todd was pleased about the lack of excitement in her lifethis as he wanted to make new friends. Yet whilst she's complainingAt home, what's that we can see? In the field of pigs behind her there's one with wings, flying in the sky! Has she noticed? No, she hasn't! She continues to walk on, telling us how there is never, ever any excitement his only friend was his mum and of course there are more and more things happening around her he wondered why that she's just not noticingcould be. Will she ever discover Grandma thought that her life is perhaps one of the most exciting in the world?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184643551X</amazonuk>it might be because he looked different.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross1529504775|title=Prince CharmlessThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=Prince Charmless was probably born complaining Elsie and every day there is something new her little brother David loved to go to complain aboutthe park and watch the red buses drive past. Amongst his complaints are that Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he wants to be a panda rather than 'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a prince; he wants to live bus in a big, gold palace instead of a silly, silver, little one; the toy shop window which would help David - and he wants was happy to get up in use the middle of the night rather than in the morningcoins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. If he can find something Gradually, David learned to complain aboutstand up, he willuse the bus for support, and Prince Charmless does not worry about upsetting people when he does complainwalk behind it. Unsurprisingly Many decades later, Elsie brought the palace staff has had enough bus, now damaged and all decide rusted, to leavethe Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395128</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tamsyn Murray and Judi Abbot1529504767|title=Snug as a BugThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=When George looked out the window at the rain, he Susan was a bit reluctant to go out. That very young when she was until his mum told him that they evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be taking lots of extra cuddles that would keep him lovely and warmgreeted when she got to her final destination. In fact, he would be as She needn'snug t have worried though as a bug rolled up in a rug'. Added she went to that he would be 'like two cosy bats in thick woolly hats' the home of Mr and even 'as hot as three pigs in big purple wigsMrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. This list of how snug he will be keeps being added to She even had her own room - all the way up to ten when Mum tells George that he will be 'tucked up likeherself. 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. Ten toasty geese all sharing one fleece' The best surprise happened the following morning. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071092</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross1916459943|title=The Wind in the WallowsSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=IMuch as mothers love their babies, there'm always ready for s something they all dread - a fun story when I see that [[squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep:Category:Jeanne Willis|Jeanne Willis]] instead, he just lies on his blanket and [[:Category:Tony Ross|Tony Ross]] have come together ''wails''. The sea offers to do another picture bookhelp. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. This is Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a particularly fun one to sharesandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, especially with kids who enjoy anything la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to do with farts have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and stinkyness and, most importantly, the tussle over who is responsible for the terrible smell!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394539</amazonuk>we know exactly what's going to happen next.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Freedman and Ben Cort140639131X|title=Pirates Love UnderpantsA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Daisy Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the duckling is having too much fun exploring Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the riverbank problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to listen to Mamma Duck. Mamma has told sit back on her to stay close, but where is tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the fun in that? After all, there are lots benefits of interesting creatures living in the river lollipop lady at the school crossing and Daisy wants decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to make friends start with thembut the benefits were obvious. Then, of course, there are All the animals used the giant lily pads. Daisy loves crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to bounce on the lily pads. ''Bouncy, bouncy bouncy. Bong bong!'' But when Daisy stops playing, she notices something. She is all aloneprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843622726</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=SAMI1776574338|title=Flip-A-Shape: GoLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn

|summary=Packed into this sturdy sixteen-page board book you'll find a fun Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way for toddlers to develop colour and shape recognitionthrough the city, picking up children as he goes. In ''Go!'' Children who live at the theme is transport and youtop of tower blocks don'll see the yellow blade t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the digger becomes the sail on a boat as the book is openedwindow and slide down his neck. Similarly It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a circle more fun way of going to school? There is a bicycle wheel becomes a balloon as the page is turned overproblem, though. The blue square of a train cab becomes Leilong isn't happy in the purple body of city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a lorrytennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The yellow rectangle of a school decides that he can't be the bus becomes the red body of a pull-truckanymore. I'm sure that you get the picture!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053389</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katherine Lodge1776574028|title=Let's Find Mimi In the CityBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott

|summary=Mimi I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the Mouse child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and her family are going on an adventure in make something quite different from each one. We have the big city, visiting shops, cafes elephant who dons a tutu - and parks along the waybecomes a ''balletphant''. Mimi wears The buffalo who has had a bright red bow on top of her head bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a pair of pretty pink fairy wings ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on her back, so you would think she would stand out in his potty changes into a crowd''sm..... But does she?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444909711</amazonuk>..'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Rickerty1838226834|title=Monkey Nut|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Two curious little spiders find a monkey nut lying on the ground. They don’t know what it is, but they do know that they both want it and that they don’t want to share. But what is this strange, knobbly object? Is it a chair? A musical instrument? Maybe a boat? Whatever it is, the two little spiders are not the only ones interested. A much bigger, hairier spider is lurking in the shadows, waiting for the chance to grab Carried Away With the monkey nut for himself, but will he succeed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075764</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCarnival|author=David McKee|title=Elmer and Aunt ZeldaEd Boxall

|summary=Elmer the patchwork elephant It was reminded by his cousin Wilbur that they had promised to visit Aunt Zelda, who is getting old and a little bit deaf. Their visit is peppered one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with misheard words and misunderstandings but there’s an obvious affection between the two generationsour grandparents. Aunt Zelda is very proud of They're there to undo all the two youngstersgood that parents do, and Elmer and Wilbur just love Zelda for what she isso the trips out were always so much fun. There’s never hint of impatience or frustration, no matter how wrong Zelda hears what the two A young elephants have boy was 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 too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842707515</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ole Konnecke|title=Anton and the Battle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Anyone who has spent any amount of time carnival with small children will know of the 'well I'm taller than you!' arguments which seem to appearhis Grandad, 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 and his friend Luke and see them imagining bigger and bigger ways of being 'better' than each other!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579262</amazonuk>}}told him:

{{newreview|author=Michel Van Zeveren|title=That's Mine!|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I've come to look forward to picture books published by Gecko Press. They always seem to come up with something a bit differentIt'll be brilliant, just remember, and this book is no exception. This is the story don't let go of an egg, found by a small green frog who claims it for his ownmy hand. But then snake says it's his egg, and eagle says it's his egg. Just whose egg is it?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579270</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela BannerB09MYXSRV4|title=More Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and More Ant and BeeHare|author=Cordellya Smith

|summary=Right at When the beginningworld was made, when you're just starting to read books which have more words than pictures, you need the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a book strong web that's structured to help youeven fire could not burn. You need a book which is comfy to hold in small hands and which has a firm cover Owl had excellent sight so that everything keeps he could see the present ''straightand''the future. You need Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to share the reading and use it well. He liked to know trick other animals. He was also jealous which words you're going was how he came to read and you might perhaps appreciate a ''hint'' be in the form of a picture which will help you to get the word all on your ownrace with Turtle. Most of all though, you need to have You might think that's not a proper story fair contest but wait and a feeling that yousee. Things are not always as they seem. I've achieved something when ll tell you get to the end. You need Ant and Beehow it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266732</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Johanne MercierRob Keeley|title=Arthur and the EarthwormsCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=34

|summary=Arthur has got himself a new job Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. He might be only seven but a boy can never start too soonShe likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. He's going to be selling earthworms from a table When her friends at the side of the road and the idea came when his pet duck started pulling school turn up the worms. They were his favourite foodtheir noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you see and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on a rainy day you could find a lot of them just near trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the surface. He and Grandad managed to get quite a few worms togetherteacher, but trade wasn't very brisk who explains that fruits grow on the first trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the woman who was determined to buy his pet duck did rather scare himground. But the next dayJordan says, trade picked up (although some of the customers "I did look suspiciously ''family'') try to tell her, Miss!" and then the big order came in..everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907912177</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Andreae and Emma DoddB09FFJF8YS|title=I Love YouCan't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik

|summary=This is the fourth ''I love …'' publication from For the prolific Giles Andreaebig, grownup girls out there, this time partnered by illustrator Emma Dodd. Judging by the little trike the child ridespotty masters in training, this book "You Can't Wear Panties!" 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 here, cry (the language is the emotional narrative. Repetitive rhyming couplets explore familiar aspects of a young child’s world. The best books for prebig-language children at bedtime secure and settle, and the appeal girl kind!) of this book is in its predictable rhythmn toilet triumph and happy emotion, rather than a challenging vocabulary or exciting story linepersevering panty pride. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408324326</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=Tracey Corderoy Justine Avery and Joe BergerNaday Meldova|title=Whizz PopEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, Granny Stopfarts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' 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 it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=Grannies come ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in for a lot the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of negative press. Absent-minded geriatric, witch with a black cat, spoiling fun picture books aims to take the kids, always getting pain out of potty training children and replace it wrong with some fun... you know the stereotypes. Well I’m fighting back. I latched onto this book, of courseIt's a worthy aim, as a grannyany frustrated parent will tell you. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Burleigh and Mary GrandpreB07GZ81J7C|title=Flight of When Fred the Last DragonSnake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton|rating=34.5

|summary=Told in rhyme, this is the tale of the very last dragon on earthMeet Fred. He hides awayWell, deep underground, remembering the times when the dragons ruled the earth until one day a voice from the heavens calls him, summons him, up and awayactually, you're going to fly far, far into the sky and leave this world behindbe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I rather like the idea 'm getting ahead of dragonsmyself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. They're one Fred is a snake and even those of those mythical creatures us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that I still sort he could breathe and immediately became part of hope might actually be real! My daughter likes dragons toothe family, although to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when she saw the title of this book she was prepared they went out for a sad story, sensing walk. And that we werenwas where the problem started. Fred didn't heading towards a happy endinghave any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399252002</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harriet Ziefert Justine Avery and Travis FosterNaday Meldova|title=The Princess and the Peas and CarrotsEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Rosebud is a good girlCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, for the most part, neat and tidy and a happy little girl, at which times her daddy calls her ''Good Princess Rosebud''as any parent will tell you. But then sometimes things go a little bit wrongreally, or they arenwhy shouldn't quite it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as Rosebud likes them, so perhaps therewe have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn's a hole in her tights or snow in her boots ort potty training be as much fun as, heavens abovesay, her peas are touching her carrots on learning about why the plate at dinner time! When this happens Rosebud becomes ''Princess Fussy'' sun and my, doesn't everyone know about it!the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609052501</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allan PlenderleithJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Silly SatsumaNo, No, No!

|summary=Once there was They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a boy called Eric GreenbogleBookbag favourite. I ''d like to be able to tell you that he was a good boyNo, but that would be wrong. Eric was a bad boy and we all know what happens to bad boys on Christmas morningNo, donNo!''t we? Good boys (and girls) find lots of presents under is based around the treesimplest text imaginable. ''No, but Father Christmas knows who has been good and who has been bad and Eric was about to be taught a lesson. There was just one present under the tree for Eric: a satsuma. Ohno, there was something else - there was a note from Father Christmas explaining why there were no presents! Okay, okay. Eric was furiousYes, you may. Eric cried'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, but then..this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841613665</amazonuk>1638820457

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Banner194812467X|title=Ant The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and BeeEma Tepic

|summary=When you learn Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to read it has to be fungo for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. You have As they walk to master the skill but it mustn't be ''too'' daunting or you're ''not'' going to enjoy it and - worst top of all - you might be put off reading for lifethe hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's best if you can share the reading until you get to grips a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with decoding what's on a difference: all the page, so if an adult could read most of the words but you read others to which you've already been introduced stallholders and which customers are in a different colour then that is going to be a helpfarmyard animals. If the words There are introduced with a nice big picture sheep and ducks and cows, goats and if they appear in alphabetical orderchickens, then that's going to be funand even some mice. Excited, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266716</amazonuk>}}Kirelle and Sam go shopping.

{{newreview|author=Chae Strathie and Ben Cort|title=Jumblebum|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|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 of places and it 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 rubbish. Can anything really get Johnny to tidy his roomWhat will they buy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407108018</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross0995647895|title=Fluff Sadie and the Farting FishSea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=Elvie wanted a puppy but she was still rather surprised when her Sadie's 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 always said that Elvie had been after - she’d wanted to train the dog. Being a resourceful young lady she decided to train the goldfish instead. ''Sit'' was always going to be rather more than a challengedreamer, but Elvie discovered that much could be achieved with Fluff’s bubbles. Go her mind never on - you know exactly what I mean! Soon Fluff was she should be doing mental arithmetic and finally singing. Before long he was in demand She lives by the River Thames at pop concerts Greenwich and for television appearancesshe loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395276</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|author=Sue Hendra|title=No-Bot''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, The Robot With No Bottom''<br>|rating=4''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=For Sharing |summary=The prospects look good for a story when youHer imagination was fired. She're already laughing at d love to sail the front cover, never mind what's insideoceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. There we have him, our little red robot, holding onto his bottom and giving One day she fell asleep under a coy-looking smile to us as readers. Already weglass case (it's the one where Nelson're wondering how he ends up with no bottom, s Trafalgar breeches are on show) and whether missed the inside of the story will be as funny as closing bell and the outside. No-Bot, happily, doesnattendant't disappoints warning shout. You canWhen she woke (hard floors don't go wrongmake comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, reallypirates, with a funny red robot who has lost his bottom can you? Just saying the word 'bottom' to small children usually reduces them to giggles!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074458</amazonuk>mermaids and treasure.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Ritchie and Mike Byrne1782227741|title=Jack's Mega Machines: The Dinosaur DiggerLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=3.54

|summary=Jack One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the mechanic loves water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to repair broken vehicles in his workshopspin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself But down in the magical Rally Road Workshop is no ordinary garagesewer, Ted starts to panic. Whenever Jack takes one ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his vehicles on cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a test drive, kind soul and he is wondrously transported to incredible locations or different time periodsdries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075683</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lou Rhodes and Tori ElliottB08R7LXQ9S|title=The PhlunkRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|summary=What Remy is a Phlunk? I know that youfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''re wondering. The school bully Jayden, Welltogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, wonder no more for this book will tell you all about the Phlunkhave been laughing at Remy, who lives on a planet shaped like a spoon, looks a 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 see and then push him just that little bit like a cat but who has very, very large earsfurther when the other kids are around. WhySo, you're now askingwhen Remy reacts, does it looks as though he have such very large ears? Well, it's all was the better to hear you with, of course! instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the Phlunk hears everything, from everybody, all over the world!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095736900X</amazonuk>teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.

{{newreview|author=Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Carolyn Leigh ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and Amy June Bates|title=Flying to Neverland with Peter Pan|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=There's something perennially magical about crept up the story corner of Peter Panthe bedpost. It's timeless, this story of a little boy who doesn' The family didn't want go to grow up, the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and who lives in a land full of pirates and fairies and mermaids and crocodilesthey were happy. ItThen the day came when they couldn's one of those stories that stays with you, which is why it's a classic, I suppose! In this version part of t afford the rent for the story is told through house and they had to move to the lyrics far side of two songs from the musical ''Peter Pan''city. The songs ''I'm Flying'' This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and ''Never Never Land'' are combined together to tell the story as far as the children flying to NeverlandIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052498</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Buckley Nick Jones and Dan SantatSi Clark|title=Kel Gilligan's Daredevil Stunt ShowOne Night in Beartown

|summary=Kel Gilligan Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is a daredevilobsessed with bears. HeShe collects books about bears.Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother.Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. wait for it..Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. eats BROCCOLI! He She even does his poos has bears on the potty. What a brave soulher bedroom wallpaper! What a hero! Kel faces all the traumas of childhood, with aplomb.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>141970379X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]