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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=LollipopMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's family settles in for a day at the seasidebad magician's cat, but it just so happenshis favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, that and the catflap they are also on both use can chuck them out, not into the Jurassic Coast. Of course the dinosaurs have died out millions regular back garden, but into a world of years ago.frightening adventure and whiffs.. or have they? Grandpa says they haven't really disappearedThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, they are just very good at hidingto be honest, so the pair set off on a quest but he's turned up and he'll have to finding the missing dinosaurs.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907912266</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leigh Hodgkinson1732898766|title=Troll Swap|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I chose this book because my sons, like most children, have always enjoyed books with naughty children. I had some reservations about the book. I was concerned that it might be yet another book preaching about the importance The Adventures of good behaviour, as most children's books were at one time, but I noticed the publisher was Nosy Crow, Birpus and they seem very keen to publish books with a difference so I took a chance and was very pleasantly surprised.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631624</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Sandrine Dumas Roy|title= Hot AirWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=This When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is a story with an environmental messagechasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, but sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at times home: it seems more like an environmental message with a story. The story itself is terribly limitedwon't end well. It begins with the ice caps melting) Fortunately, the sun growing too hot they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and drought. There are no humans in this bookvines was lowered for them, so the animals get together to find out what the problem isthey escaped. They decide that cows are climbed up to the reason Tree Wee homes high up in the world is growing warmer tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and try to find a solutionGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912223</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Martz, Bud Abbott and Lou CostelloB0CC9W7GLR|title=Who's On First?the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=I very nearly passed this book byKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, as my sons have no knowledge bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of or interest in baseballsilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. But the name On top of the authors caught my eye. I ice was a surprised to see Abbott polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and Costello listed as with wobbly legs moved from the authors of a new bookice. After Kit was all, they have been dead for decades. This could give the term ghost writer making a whole new meaningrun for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and then the penny dropped. The title, 'Who's On First?' is also the title of gave him one of Abbott apple and Costello's most famous comedy skitsthen another. This book is He obviously needed to be taken directly from home on the skit, with only bus and given a few good meal and somewhere to sleep. minor alterations. Remembering how side splittingly funny the skit was - I knew in instant the children What else would enjoy this. You you do not need to know anything about baseball to enjoy this book, all you need is a sense of humour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745900</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorna Freytag1913839656|title=My Humongous HamsterLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=''My hamster doesn’t do much''Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice.<br>'' He just sleeps packed two pairs of dungarees and eats his favourite hat and eats then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and sleeps''.<br>''Sometimes Todd was pleased about this as he gets so HUMoNGOUSLY HUNGRYwanted to make new friends....'' ''My Humongous Hamster'' is the story of what might happen if the hungry hamster ate all of At home, his only friend was his food in one gulp mum and got bigger and bigger and biggerhe wondered why that could be. Each page shows the gigantic hamster in a variety of humorous situations, each one funnier than the last Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848123132</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Child1529504775|title=I Am Not Sleepy And I Will Not Go To BedThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Like many childrenElsie 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 it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, Lola does not particularly like going David learned to bed. She likes staying stand up colouring, scribblinguse the bus for support, sticking and most of all chatteringwalk behind it. When she is told that it is time for bed Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, she always has an answer as to why she should not go: she never gets tired; she can’t clean her teeth because somebody is eating her toothpaste; and the whales are swimming in Repair Shop, hoping that the bath. The list is endless especially where the highly imaginative Lola is concerned. However, older brother Charlie knows Lola experts there could make it so well; if anyone can persuade that her to get into bed, it’s himgrandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326094</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver Jeffers1529504767|title=Lost The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and FoundKatie Hickey
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|summary=I can only describe Lost and Found as a work of art. The story is beautiful Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in its simplicity, 1939 and the illustrations also have a magical quality nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to themher final destination. I have read criticism of some of JeffersShe needn' early works for his style t have worried though as she went to the home of drawingMr and Mrs Russell, especially the thin stick like legs of the ''The Boy'who couldn't have been kinder to her. The critics seem She even had her own room - all to have fallen silent on this book though herself. Gradually she relaxed and there is nothing but praise for itbegan to enjoy her life. The boy is not She'd help Mrs Russell with the most realistic drawing of a child I have seen, but there is something special about baking and when it, some unique presence that sets this book apart from other books. It is not a crude drawing, but a very individualised, artistic expression of Jeffers' style, which is rapidly becoming a personal trademark. The rest of his illustrations are simple came to Christmas Eve Susan and uncluttered as well. Many depict only Mr Russell put the main characters, a single prop decorations on a white backgroundthe Christmas tree. Another picture shows only a few house with a darkened sky, a full moon and stars The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000730434X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver Jeffers1916459943|title=It Wasn't Me (The Hueys)Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=The title of this book will be familiar to every small child. I think it may be one of the first sentences many learn. The scenario will also be very familiar. The story is about a familyMuch as mothers love their babies, who usually get along very well. But just once in while - they donthere't. This just happens to be one of those times when s something they are not getting along at all, and Gillespie walks into dread - a huge argumentsqueakily baby. He asks why they are fighting, 's so tired but as mad as everyone ishe can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, no one can quite rememberhe just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. A few start pointing fingers as The sea offers to who started help. It rocks Baby gently and the fightwaves sing ''hush, but each character insists he was not hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the one who started the rowsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay... They never do remember what caused the quarrel but eventually wander off '' And for something a bit more excitingmoment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007420676</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith140639131X|title=PrimroseA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=Princess Primrose is bored, bored, bored! Everyone is so formal, so serious and proper, and Primrose just longs Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to have some funcross the Old Oak Road. Everyone in She wrote to the mayor about the palace is constantly telling her off, telling her what ''notproblem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn' t a bird to dosit 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. The Queen is worried about her, wondering how Primrose will ever learn Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to behave like a proper princessstart with but the benefits were obvious. In All the end they decide that they must call in Grandmama, for surely if anyone can make Primrose behave it's Grandmama!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407109669</amazonuk>animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith1776574338|title=Claude in the SpotlightLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=You have met ClaudeEvery morning Leilong, haventhe brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't you? even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. HeIt's perfect, isn't it? What could be a funny, plump little dog whose best friend is Sir Bobblysock and the two more fun way of them frequently get themselves embroiled in all sorts of adventures. going to school? This time Claude headsThere is a problem, accidentally, towards a career on stagethough. But something is amiss Leilong isn't happy in the theatrecity: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. Can Claude help save The school decides that he can't be the show?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444909290</amazonuk>bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola O'Byrne and Nick Bromley1776574028|title=Open Very Carefully: A Book with Bite!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=HereI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's another brilliant picture book for the 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 make something quite different from Nosy Croweach one. If you haven We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''t already heard of them, these newish publishers are ones to watch. They seem to be nurturing artists The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and writers then dries off with an ability to a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think outside the boxabout it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' OK, in a childrenlet's field already replete with creative talent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763661635</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Abie Longstaff and Lauren Beard1838226834|title=The Mummy ShopCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=One small boy is feeling very cross It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with his mummyour grandparents. She has told him They're there to tidy his roomundo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to help at the supermarket and then has made carnival with his Grandad, who told him : ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go to bed when he has only just started playingof my hand. He is so cross that when he reads this advert in the paper:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407114921</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|authortitle=Julia Donaldson Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Axel SchefflerHare|titleauthor=ZogCordellya Smith|rating=54
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|summary=We are devotees of When the world was made, the [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalo]]animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. We have books, noisy books, costumes, jigsaws, sleepsuits and green nail polishWater Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. We have scoured coppices for Gruffalo-shaped twigs Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and bakers’ shops for Gruffalo birthday cakes'' the future. We have done the GruffaloRabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, if not the ability to use it well. He liked to death, but trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to the shallow depths of my granddaughter’s infant imaginationbe in a race with Turtle. We love the Gruffalo for his unique You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and appealing simplicity, and because he is the most wonderful debunker of monster-fear ever inventedsee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132334</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amber Stewart and Layn MarlowRob Keeley|title=Too Small for my Big BedCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=This book Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for kids graduating from the cot you and how nice to their first big bedeat. Even moreOne day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, it’s for all those parents who didn’t anticipate tells her that once in carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the bedteacher, there’s no going back to who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the security of the cot ground... the child can now appear in your bedroomJordan says, night after night after night. So this is the universal problem"I did try to tell her, Miss!" and here is a supportive and tactful way of addressing iteveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192758403</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elys DolanB09FFJF8YS|title=WeaselsYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=I chose 'Weasels' because my sons enjoy books with a bit of wicked wit. Books are my passionFor the big, and something my children greatly enjoy as well. We have several hundred children's booksgrownup girls out there, and we really value ones that are a bit different from the norm. 'Weaselspotty masters in training, "You Can' most certainly qualifies as different. The premise of the story t Wear Panties!" is that weasels are secretly plotting to take over the world. My boys call it World War Weasel. A slight but very humorous mishap really throws a spanner in cry (the worksbig-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. The weasels have built a massive machine to secure their quest for world domination, but just as the countdown begins the lights go off and the machine status screen clearly tells us ''It's broken''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631993</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=Sylvia Vanden Heede Justine Avery and Marije TolmanNaday Meldova|title=Wolf and DogEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=3.54
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|summary=Wolf Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and Dog are cousinsjoke about, and whilst Wolf that is wild and lives in . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the forestwrong time. In class, Dog is tame say, when everyone will hear it and lives everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in a house her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with his boss. In spite of their differences they somehow develop a friendshiptooting and gently and calmly, of sortswith the familiar humour attached, sharing everything from food to fleasexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579386</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth Edwards and Hannah ShawB09BG8V3Q6|title=The Disgusting SandwichWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=What do you do if your sandwich falls on the floor? Do you have a three second rule? Does it depend on how good a sandwich it is''Who Needs Nappies?Not Me! I stopped worrying so much when my daughter began to crawl and one day, in a cafe in town, I discovered her under someone else's table eating crumbs and fluff and goodness knows what off ' is the floor there, with no adverse effects thank goodness! Here latest release in this story Badger, poor Badger, is very, very hungry. He spots a the ''deliciousEverybody Potties!'' looking sandwich, peanut butter on fresh white breadseries from Justine Avery. But the little boy holding the sandwich accidentally drops it in This series of fun picture books aims to take the sandpit. A little girl sees pain out of potty training children and she says ''you can't eat replace it nowwith some fun. It's disgustinga worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you.'' What about badger though? Does he still want to eat it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407131451</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie BlakeB07GZ81J7C|title=Stupid BabyWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=Simon (Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a rabbit) has a new baby brotherbit more about Fred. Suddenly Simon Fred is being cautioned for being too noisya snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He begins arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to worry the extent that this 'stupid baby', who has been there they would take Fred out with them when they went out for three whole days might actually be staying forever! a walk. And that would be horrible! How on earth will Simon cope? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579319</amazonuk>was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leonie LagardeJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Things That Go Everybody Pees! (Baby Can SeeEverybody Potties!)
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|summary=''Things That Go'' is one of a series (more on the other books later) of books designed with the youngest readers in mind. Can potty training ever be joyous? It has just twelve pages in a substantial board and with a padded cover which will be soft in babyoften isn's hands t, as any parent will wipe cleantell you. It's sturdy but not immune to being pierced if it encounters a sharp object. Each double page spread shows a method of transport in blackBut really, white and one primary colour. Therewhy shouldn's a statement of what t it is: 'It's a bike' along with a very be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small amount of supplementary text. The picture has simple lines Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and it's obvious what it is.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407133292</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Giles Paley-Phillips Justine Avery and Gabriele AntoniniNaday Meldova|title=Tamara Small and the Monster's BallNo, No, No!
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|summary=On a dark and windy night Tamara Small lies awake in bed, clutching Ted. There's something stirring in the garden and when she and Ted go to look out of the window there's something moving around and making a grizzly sound. As the pair dash back to bed a monster breaks through the window and whisks them away - to They say the old village hall which is where best picture books are the Annual Monsters' Ball is being heldsimplest ones. And what a collection nothing could be truer of monsters it is! I saw skeletons, goblins, ghosts and ghouls, witches in black pointy hats and a few other monsters that defy description. And what happened to Tamara? Wellthis latest from Justine Avery, she had a ball..Bookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861001</amazonuk>}}
That's it! But of course, like all the grownbest picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis -ups are so immersed in their grocery shopping, that they don’t notice the dinosaurs hiding much bigger on the shelves, in amongst the vegetables and behind the display cases. Only one little boy is observant enough to spot the dinosaurs all around the supermarket and the fact inside that their antics are causing chaos. If he doesn’t do something soon, the adults may blame HIM for all the mess appearing it appears on the walls and floorsoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407114719</amazonuk>1638820457
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Lyon and Vanina Starkoff194812467X|title=The Cautionary Tale of the Childe of HaleFarm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=There was Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a giant who lived walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in Hale her bright yellow wellies and if you care to you can visit the cottage and grave of John Middleton who reputedly topped nine feet tall and had to sleep with his feet dangling Sam is perfectly turned out of as ever in his cottage windowssmart grey fur coat. Rachel Lyon tells As they walk to the lightly-fictionalised story top of how the Childe - as he was known - was taken up by the kinghill, commanded to move to London and given every luxurythey see a big barn with a sign outside. For It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a while he didn't regret leaving Hale at difference: all - for once he was dry, slept in a comfortable bed the stallholders and had clothes which fit himcustomers are farmyard animals. He mixed with the royal family There are sheep and ducks and the court - cows, goats and life seemed goodchickens, until the day when the king commanded him to fightand even some mice. This was bad enoughExcited, but even then the king's motives were not exactly as you might expectKirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860951</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Killen0995647895|title=I Got a CrocodileSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=A lonely child wishes for Sadie's mother always said that she was a little brother or sister to play withdreamer, but ends up with a crocodile insteadher mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The crocodile is messy and intrusive and soon starts making a nuisance of himself, causing trouble Maritime Museum or gazing at teatimeCutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, bathtime ''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and bedtimewent back regularly. Can One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the crocodile one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the child get over their differences closing bell and become friends the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the end?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075780</amazonuk>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=Allan Plenderleith1782227741|title=The Chicken Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and the EggSasha Satha
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|summary=Flo the chicken lived on One day, Gold Ted falls into a farm where puddle. It''every'' chicken laid one egg ''every'' day, except for Flo, that s quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and issucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself She tried everything - you'll see from down in the pictures that she really did try sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''everythingOH HELP ME PLEASE'', but nothing worked. Then one day it rained he cries and all alerts the other chickens went into attention of Reg the coop but there was no room for Flo - so there was nothing left for her to do but hide under a tree. As sewer rat, who plucks him out of the rain came downdirty water using his cane, so did something else and which might look just a really BIG egg landed right next to Flobit like an old cricket bat. The other chickens were just Reg is a bit sceptical (the egg was bigger than Flo), but Flo was the maternal type kind soul and she loved that egg he dries Ted off and cared for it all through the year. Then came the night when warms him up with a predator came calling at the farm and Flo wouldn't leave her egg..nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613711</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Courtney DicmasB08R7LXQ9S|title=Harold Finds Remy: A Voicebook about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Harold Remy is a parrot, quite a talented parrot in factfeeling miserable. He 's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is able to mimic almost anything with great accuracyshort and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. From the washing machine They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the toasterother kids are around. So, the vacuum cleaner to the phone Harold delights in imitating every single sound when Remy reacts, it looks as though he hears in was the apartment in which he livesinstigator. One day Harold decides that And then he has tired of all these familiar sounds gets into trouble at school and ventures out into the big city where is teachers don't believe him when he delighted tries to discover a whole range of exciting new sounds for him to copyexplain what happened. However something is worrying Harold; despite all the many sounds he makes he is worried that he does not have a sound of his own. Surely he must have a voice and if he does what does it sound like?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846435498</amazonuk>
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|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on:
''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.''
The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlotte MiddletonNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Christopher's BicycleOne Night in Beartown|rating=3.54
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|summary=Something Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is going on in the shed! Christopher Nibble (the guinea pig) wonders what his dad obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is doing in thereBerisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, banging she looks out of her bedroom window and crashing aboutsays goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. And his mum too She even has some secret sewing project going bears on. What on earth could they be up to? Worry not, for all is revealed when Christopher is presented with his very own brand new recycled bicycleher bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192758357</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]