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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]==For sharing==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kara Lebihan and Deborah AllwrightAdam Stower|title=Mrs Vickers' Favourite KnickersMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Mrs VickersMurray 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' Favourite Knickers have an adventure of their owns a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, flying high above town over and the seacatflap they both use can chuck them out, before finally making a rather unusual landing right not into the regular back were they started from. Children of a certain age love knickersgarden, and I'm certain this book would be but into a smash hit with a nursery or reception class, world of frightening adventure and even children up to about 7or 8 are likely to enjoy reading this oncewhiffs. This book time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is quite shortexpected – well, and ideal for children with very short attention spansone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and considering the subject matter is almost certain he'll have to hold the attention of a large group of children easily.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405253959</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Harriet Ziefert The Adventures of Birpus and Simms TabackBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Quack Like a Duck!Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=You mustn't be shy if youWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're going to read this bookrunning for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. ItHe's not the sort of book you can whisper on a train to a fidgety babyright behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, or that you pack in your nappy bag for quiet times they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when you're out a ladder of moss and aboutvines was lowered for them, they escaped. This is They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the sort of book that is going to require some very loud moo-ingtangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, so consider yourselves warned!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052609</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard ByrneB0CC9W7GLR|title=Penguins Can't Fly!On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=Gregory the Gull Kit and Hudson the penguin Teal were both born on the same day and have been great friends ever sincejust beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, doing everything together. In the lovely illustrationsbored but warm, we can see them having or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a bath, fishing, sledging, skating and giving each other thoughtful and special gifts. However, snowy beach when Gregory sees some other some gulls having fun flying over a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the beach, he naturally decides to join inshoreline. So does Hudson but On top of course there is the ice was a problem! However hard Hudson flaps his little wings, he just can’t flypolar bear. He tries everything but As the ice bumped onto the result is always sand, the same; he never manages to leave bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the groundice. Naturally Kit was all for making a run for it, he is very sad especially when all but Teal knew that the gulls laugh unkindlybear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. Just when he is feeling very low though, something happens He obviously needed to Gregory when he dives deep into be taken home on the water bus and gets caught up in given a fishing net. Hudson may not be able to fly but he can swim good meal and this means that he is the best bird to help his friend. After this, it never seems somewhere to matter that he can't flysleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395136</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Penelope Harper Lainey Dee|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and Cate Jameshis favourite hat and 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 Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Lollipop The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Grandpa's Dinosaur HuntKatie Hickey
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|summary=Lollipop's family settles in for a day at Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the seaside, but it just so happens, that they are also on park and watch the Jurassic Coastred buses drive past. Of course Elsie would race the buses along the dinosaurs have died out millions side of years ago... or have they? Grandpa says they haventhe park but David couldn't really disappeared, they are - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very good 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 hidinghome. Gradually, David learned to stand up, so use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the pair set off on a quest bus, now damaged and rusted, to finding the missing dinosaursRepair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912266</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leigh Hodgkinson1529504767|title=Troll SwapThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=I chose this book because my sons, like most childrenSusan 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 home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have always enjoyed books with naughty childrenbeen kinder to her. I She even had some reservations about the bookher own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. I was concerned that it might be yet another book preaching about the importance of good behaviour, as most children She's books were at one time, but I noticed d help Mrs Russell with the publisher was Nosy Crow, baking and they seem very keen when it came to publish books with a difference so I took a chance Christmas Eve Susan and was very pleasantly surprisedMr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631624</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandrine Dumas Roy1916459943|title= Hot AirSqueakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=This is Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a story with an environmental messagesqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, but at times it seems more like an environmental message with a storyhe just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The story itself is terribly limitedsea offers to help. It begins with rocks Baby gently and the ice caps meltingwaves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sun growing too hot and droughtsound perfectly. There are no humans The mermaids join in this book- ''la lou, so the animals get together la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to find out what the problem ishave worked as Baby closes his eyes. They decide that cows are the reason the world is growing warmer Then a seagull '''shouts''' and try we know exactly what's going to find a solutionhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912223</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Martz, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello140639131X|title=Who's On First?A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=I very Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly passed this book by, getting squished as my sons have no knowledge she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. of or interest in baseball. But She wrote to the name of mayor about the authors caught my eyeproblem but didn't even get a reply. I Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a surprised to see Abbott and Costello listed as problem which needed solving: she saw the authors benefits of a new book. After all, they have been dead for decades. This could give the term ghost writer a whole new meaning, lollipop lady at the school crossing and then the penny droppeddecided that she would set up something similar herself. The title, 'Who's On First?' is also Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the title of one of Abbott and Costello's most famous comedy skitsbenefits were obvious. This book is taken directly from All the skit, with only a few minor alterations. Remembering how side splittingly funny animals used the skit crossing and Hedgehog was - I knew in instant the children would enjoy this. You do not need to know anything about baseball even trained up to enjoy this book, all you need is provide a sense of humoursafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745900</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorna Freytag1776574338|title=My Humongous HamsterLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=''My hamster doesn’t do much''Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes.<br> Children who live at the top of tower blocks don''He just sleeps t even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and eats and eats and sleepsslide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though.<br> Leilong isn't happy in the city: he'Sometimes s always having to be careful about where he gets so HUMoNGOUSLY HUNGRY....'' ''My Humongous Hamster'' is the story of what might happen if the hungry hamster ate all of puts his food in one gulp feet and got bigger – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and bigger and biggertraffic regularly gets snarled up. Each page shows the gigantic hamster in a variety of humorous situations, each one funnier than The school decides that he can't be the lastbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848123132</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Child1776574028|title=I Am Not Sleepy And I Will Not Go To BedBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=Like many children, Lola does not particularly like going to bed. She likes staying up colouring, scribbling, sticking and most of all chattering. When she I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is told that aimed at quite a niche market: it is time 's for bedthe child who still enjoys board books (er, she always see my first sentence) but has an answer as mastered sufficient language skills to why she should not go: she never gets tired; she can’t clean her teeth because somebody is eating her toothpaste; have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the whales are swimming in the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath(complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The list rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is endless especially where the highly imaginative Lola is concerneda ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm....... However'' OK, older brother Charlie knows Lola so well; if anyone can persuade her to get into bed, it’s him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326094</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver JeffersB09MYXSRV4|title=It WasnOtter't Me (s Coat: The Hueys)Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|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 When the world was made, the first sentences many learnanimals were given gifts. The scenario will also be very familiar Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. The story is about Water Spider received a familystrong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, who usually get along very unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. But just once in while - they don't He liked to trick other animals. This just happens He was also jealous which was how he came to be one of those times when they are in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not getting along at all, a fair contest but wait and Gillespie walks into a huge argumentsee. He asks why they Things are fighting, but not always as mad as everyone is, no one can quite rememberthey seem. A few start pointing fingers as to who started the fight, but each character insists he was not the one who started the row. They never do remember what caused the quarrel but eventually wander off for something a bit more exciting I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007420676</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex T SmithRob Keeley|title=PrimroseCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Princess Primrose is bored Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, bored, bored! Everyone is so formalbroccoli, so serious cabbage and properaubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and Primrose just longs how nice to have some funeat. Everyone in the palace is constantly telling her offOne day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, telling who tells her what ''not'' to dothat carrots grow on trees. The Queen is worried about herInfuriated, wondering how Primrose will ever learn to behave like a proper princess. In Lily checks with the end they decide teacher, who explains that they must call fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in Grandmamathe ground. Jordan says, for surely if anyone can make Primrose behave it's Grandmama"I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407109669</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T SmithB09FFJF8YS|title=Claude in the SpotlightYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=You have met Claude, haven't you? He's a funnyFor the big, grownup girls out there, plump little dog whose best friend is Sir Bobblysock and the two of them frequently get themselves embroiled potty masters in all sorts of adventures. This time Claude headstraining, accidentally, towards "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a career on stage. But something is amiss in cry (the theatrebig-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. Can Claude help save the show?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444909290</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=Abie Longstaff Justine Avery and Lauren BeardNaday Meldova|title=The Mummy ShopEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=One small boy is feeling very cross with his mummyToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. She has told him Funny to tidy his roomtalk about and joke about, to help that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the supermarket wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and then has made him go to bed when he has only just started playingeveryone will laugh. At you. He is so cross that when he reads this advert Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the paperfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it:''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407114921</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel SchefflerB09BG8V3Q6|title=ZogWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=We are devotees of ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|Gruffalo]]''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. We have books, noisy This series of fun picture books, costumes, jigsaws, sleepsuits and green nail polish. We have scoured coppices for Gruffalo-shaped twigs and bakers’ shops for Gruffalo birthday cakes. We have done the Gruffalo, if not to death, but aims to take the shallow depths pain out of my granddaughter’s infant imaginationpotty training children and replace it with some fun. We love the Gruffalo for his unique and appealing simplicityIt's a worthy aim, and because he is the most wonderful debunker of monster-fear ever inventedas any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132334</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|authortitle=Amber Stewart When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Layn MarlowMended|titleauthor=Too Small for my Big BedPeter Cotton
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|summary=This book is for kids graduating from the cot to their first big bedMeet Fred. Even moreWell, actually, it’s 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 bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those parents of us who didn’t anticipate have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that once in he could breathe and immediately became part of the bedfamily, there’s no going back to the security of extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the cot ..problem started. the child can now appear in your bedroom, night after night after nightFred didn't have any road sense. So this is the universal problem, and here is a supportive and tactful way of addressing itOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192758403</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elys DolanJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=WeaselsEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=I chose 'WeaselsCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn' because my sons enjoy books with a bit of wicked wit. Books are my passiont, and something my children greatly enjoy as wellany parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have several hundred children's books, and to learn about everything else when we really value ones that are a bit different from the normsmall. Why shouldn'Weasels' most certainly qualifies t potty training be as much fun as different. The premise of , say, learning about why the sun and the story is that weasels are secretly plotting to moon take over the world. My boys call it World War Weasel. A slight but very humorous mishap really throws a spanner turns in the works. 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''.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857631993</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Blake194812467X|title=Stupid BabyThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Simon (a rabbit) has Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a new baby brotherwalk. Suddenly Simon Kirelle is being cautioned dressed for being too noisyall weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. He begins As they walk to worry that the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this 'stupid baby'is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, who has been there for three whole days might actually be staying forever! And that would be horrible! How on earth Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will Simon copethey buy? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579319</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leonie Lagarde1782227741|title=Things That Go (Baby Can See)Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It''Things That Go'' s quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is one of sucked down a series (more drain on the other books later) side of books designed with the youngest readers in mindstreet. Finding himself It has just twelve pages down in a substantial board and with a padded cover which will be soft in babythe sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE's hands will wipe clean. It's sturdy but not immune to being pierced if it encounters a sharp object. Each double page spread shows a method he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of transport in blackthe dirty water using his cane, white and one primary colourwhich might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. There's a statement of what it Reg is: 'It's a bike' along kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a very small amount nice bowl of supplementary text. The picture has simple lines and it's obvious what it isbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407133292</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Paley-Phillips and Gabriele AntoniniB08R7LXQ9S|title=Tamara Small Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and the Monster's BallCaroline Siegal
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|summary=On a dark and windy night Tamara Small lies awake in bed, clutching TedRemy is feeling miserable. ThereHe's something stirring in the garden let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and when she Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and Ted go to look out of the window there's something moving around and making a grizzly soundhas small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. As the pair dash back They are careful to bed a monster breaks through the window wind up Remy when nobody can see and whisks them away - to then push him just that little bit further when the old village hall which is where the Annual Monsters' Ball is being heldother kids are around. And what a collection of monsters it is! I saw skeletonsSo, goblinswhen Remy reacts, ghosts and ghouls, witches in black pointy hats and a few other monsters that defy descriptionit looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened to Tamara? Well, she had a ball...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861001</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Fulton and Jona Jung1471191303|title=Tabitha Posy Was Ever So NosyThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=45
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|summary=It's a couple This is the story of years since I met Julie Fulton's [[Mrs MacCready Was Ever So Greedy by Julie Fulton and Jona Jung|Mrs MacCready]]Isobel, a little girl who - in case you don't know - was ever so greedymade a big difference. Remembering what Isobel lived with her parents in a glorious romp that was, how could I resist house - a young friend of Julie's by the name of Tabitha Posy? Wellvery cold house, I didnbecause her parents couldn't even try...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860978</amazonuk>}}afford to put the heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Lyon Nick Jones and Vanina StarkoffSi Clark|title=The Cautionary Tale of the Childe of HaleOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=There was a giant Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lived lives in Hale 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 Beartown, is obsessed with his feet dangling out of his cottage windowsbears. Rachel Lyon tells the lightly-fictionalised story of how the Childe - as he was known - was taken up by the king, commanded to move to London and given every luxuryShe collects books about bears. For a while he didn't regret leaving Hale at all - for once he was dryHer favourite toy is Berisford, slept in a comfortable bed and had clothes which fit himteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. He mixed with the royal family Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the court - and life seemed goodbear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, until the day when the king commanded him to fighta colourful painted bear that lives at her school. This was bad enough, but She even then the king's motives were not exactly as you might expect.has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848860951</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}