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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=For sharingMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray 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 a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Georgie Adams The Adventures of Birpus and Selina YoungBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=Nanny FoxWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Everyone knows that foxes eat chickensWhen 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 chasing them. ItHe's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a storybook standardladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. But here, They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in this story, Arnold the Fox likes chickens to be his friendstangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, not his dinnerNester Nook and Granny Cranny. He'd rather have a peanut butter sandwich instead!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444008102</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia WautersB0CC9W7GLR|title=One Night, Far From HereOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=I didn't think they made books like this any more. It's very rare Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to see be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a book with transparent pages nowadays. I have literally searched for years, snapping up snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the odd one from used book sellersshoreline. These may have gone out On top of style now in favour of books with batteries, buttons and bells, but these engage a child in the ice was a way no battery operated contraption possibly couldpolar bear. Children are fascinated by As the ice bumped onto the pagessand, not just my own children, but every child I have seen the bear woke and with thesewobbly legs moved from the ice. This book is wonderful Kit was all for story timemaking a run for it, but it is also Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Todd was excited about spending the type of book that children seek outweekend with his grandmother, quietly turning not least because she made the pages, lost in their own imaginationbest beetle juice. Experts are beginning He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to recognise playing with books as a crucial step in emergent literacyshow his grandmother. This is a book children will turn She had promised to take him to again the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and again, experiencing a different adventure each time they lose themselves in the pagesTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and learning he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that books offer excitement and adventureit might be because he looked different. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263028</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Anholt and Laurence Anholt1529504775|title=Babies, Babies, Babies!The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=This book is one of those lovely books that covers an awful lot in just a few pagesElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Full Elsie would race the buses along the side of sweet pictures and gentle rhyming text it takes you on a journey through the sort of things that babiespark but David couldn' lives revolve around t - food, animals, family, clothes he'd been born with cerebral palsy and playingeven just standing up was very difficult. You can read One day Elsie spotted a bus in the text as it's written or you may find that your little ones are toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to just look through use the bookcoins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, talking David learned to you about what they can seestand up, what use the bus for support, and walk behind it reminds them of. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and what they'd like rusted, to do the Repair Shop, hoping that daythe experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314363</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Inkpen and Mick Inkpen1529504767|title=Zoe The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Beans: Hello OscarKatie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Zoe Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her dog, Beans, are in the garden when Beans sniffs out a guinea pigfinal destination. Fortunately Beans is a very unaggressive-looking dog She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who seems unlikely couldn't have been kinder to finish off any small rodent in one excited biteher. His curiosity allows the story to accumulate an everShe even had her own room -more exciting set of roaming pets for Zoe all to discover, including, surprisingly, a chameleonherself. By the time Zoe gets Gradually she relaxed and began to shouting out enjoy her name life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to a parrot, who insists Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on calling her Oscar, Beans has disappeared through a hole in the fenceChristmas tree. That’s when Oscar, the owner of all these wonderful animals, crawls backwards through the fence and how the friends meet, so I’m guessing this is The best surprise happened the first of a series of stories featuring Zoe and Oscarfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447210263</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Inkpen and Mick Inkpen1916459943|title=Zoe and Beans: Look at me!Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb
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|summary=This is the first board book in Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a Zoe and Beans series in developmentsqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, so it will be played with he just lies on his blanket and handled by very young children''wails''. The sea offers to help. Babies It rocks Baby gently and toddlers will like the cheery picswaves sing ''hush, friendly faces hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and Beans, you have the faithful playmatesound perfectly. The mermaids join in -dog''la lou, la lay... I loved Beans'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. He conveyed all the resignation of Then a household mutt dominated by an ever-demanding toddlerseagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230766544</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natalie Marshall140639131X|title=Monster, Be Good!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith
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|summary=No-one need be frightened Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of these beasties, and it’s not a story about conquering fearsnearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Instead, these are miscreant monsters who are put in their places with some very firm guidanceShe wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Children will recognise Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the orders instantly, for parents come out with them in varying tones benefits of tiredness, resignation or irritation on a daily basis. In fact, I have the sneaky feeling lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the author is on benefits were obvious. All the side of animals used the adultscrossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053141</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton1776574338|title=Shifty McGifty Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Slippery SamBei Lynn|rating=54|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are two dogs with half baked idea for what thy think will be Every morning Leilong, the perfect crime - despite their previous failures. The dogs prepare a wonderful feast to lure their intended victims outbrontosaurus school bus, making cupcakesmakes his way through the city, pies, buns and every sort of baked treat you can imaginepicking up children as he goes. They have a wonderful time baking, but all Children who live at the while top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they are planning to rob all simply climb out of their guests when the party is in full swingwindow and slide down his neck. The feast It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a huge successproblem, but though. Leilong isn't happy in the robbery is another disaster. A small act of kindness city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a heart felt apology results in forgiveness, tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and a wonderful idea for a new careertraffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lane Smith1776574028|title=It's a Little BookBumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=Lane SmithI love a good board book! 's blockbuster hit 'ItBumblebee Grumblebee's A Book' spent six months on the New York Times bestsellers list. Her new 'Itis aimed at quite a niche market: it's a Little Book' provides a very similar storyfor the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but on a level better suited has mastered sufficient language skills to very young childrenhave realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Both books feature We have the elephant who dons a very computertutu -literate donkey and becomes a quiet thoughtful monkey''balletphant''. In both books, donkey The buffalo who has never seen had a book before bath (complete with yellow duck) and has all sorts of questions to which monkey always replies then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''nofluffalo'' or . The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it's !) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a book''sm.... Donkey doesn...''t seem able to quite figure out why monkey is so interested in this thing with no whistles and bells or lights or action OK, or to understand why monkey likes this strange thing so much - until monkey shows him the magic of books as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023076875X</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Carried Away With the Carnival
|author=Ed Boxall
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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:
''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim HopgoodB09MYXSRV4|title=Ping Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Pong are Best Friends (mostly)Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=54
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|summary=Ping and Pong are best matesWhen the world was made, but Ping feels the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he is always in Pong's shadowcould become a protector. Anything Ping can do, Pong can do better Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Ping is learning to skate, taking baby steps on Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the ice while Pong twirls present ''and zooms around him'' the future. Ping paints a colourful canvas with bright coloured splodges while Pong paints a lovely vase with flowers. No matter what he does Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, Pong can do not the ability to use it so much better that poor Ping gives up and decides well. He liked to do nothing at alltrick other animals. But perhaps there is something that Ping can do better than anyone else, and that it just He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a friendrace with Turtle. This is You might think that's not a fun book to read that had my four year old laughing out loud, fair contest but there is a lot more to this book than humour; wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it has a lovely heart warming message came about friendship as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707749X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Sperring and Sarah WarburtonRob Keeley|title=Mabel and MeCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Good children’s books open new windows on the world. This title did just thatLily loves eating fruit and vegetables. The viewpoint character is a sharp-tongued mouse with Attitude. His best friend is MabelShe likes carrots, broccoli, a kindly little girl of few wordscabbage and aubergines. The two When her friends are discussing why at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are bestestfor you and how nice to eat. One day, bestest friends as they stroll in an unguessable Euro-city. Their discussion is interrupted poor Lily gets tricked by Monsieur Famous French photographerJordan, then Senora Prima Ballerinawho tells her that carrots grow on trees. The mouse misinterprets their criticisms Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and blows his top vegetables, like carrots, grow in defence of his friendthe ground. Jordan says, Mabel. But he’s got it wrong"I did try to tell her, they are talking about him. Fortunately the mouse’s own high self-esteem Miss!" and Mabel’s sympathetic realism defuse the crisis. It was nicely unpredictableeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007468369</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kara Lebihan and Deborah AllwrightB09FFJF8YS|title=Mrs VickersYou Can' Favourite Knickerst Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=Mrs Vickers' Favourite Knickers have an adventure of their own'For the big, grownup girls out there, flying high above town over the sea, before finally making a rather unusual landing right back were they started from. Children of a certain age love knickerspotty masters in training, and I"You Can'm certain this book would be t Wear Panties!" is a smash hit with a nursery or reception class, and even children up to about 7or 8 are likely to enjoy reading this once. This book is quite short, and ideal for children with very short attention spans, and considering the subject matter is almost certain to hold cry (the attention big-girl kind!) of a large group of children easilytoilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405253959</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=Harriet Ziefert Justine Avery and Simms TabackNaday Meldova|title=Quack Like a DuckEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=You mustnToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't be shy if you're going to read this bookfind them irresistibly funny. It's not the sort of book you can whisper on a train Funny to a fidgety babytalk about and joke about, or that is. But horribly embarrassing if you pack in your nappy bag for quiet times let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery're out s latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and about. This is gently and calmly, with the sort of book familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is going to require some very loud moo-ing, so consider yourselves warnedperfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609052609</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard ByrneB09BG8V3Q6|title=Penguins Can't FlyWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=Gregory ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the Gull and Hudson latest release in the penguin were both born on the same day and have been great friends ever since, doing everything together''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. In This series of fun picture books aims to take the lovely illustrations, we can see them having a bath, fishing, sledging, skating pain out of potty training children and giving each other thoughtful and special gifts. However, when Gregory sees some other replace it with some gulls having fun flying over the beach, he naturally decides to join in. So does Hudson but of course there is It's a problem! However hard Hudson flaps his little wingsworthy aim, he just can’t flyas any frustrated parent will tell you. He tries everything but the result is always the same; he never manages to leave the ground. Naturally, he is very sad especially when all the gulls laugh unkindly. Just when he is feeling very low though, something happens to Gregory when he dives deep into the water and gets caught up in a fishing net. Hudson may not be able to fly but he can swim and this means that he is the best bird to help his friend. After this, it never seems to matter that he can't fly .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395136</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Penelope Harper and Cate JamesB07GZ81J7C|title=Lollipop When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Grandpa's Dinosaur HuntMended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=LollipopMeet Fred. Well, actually, you's family settles 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 of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in for a day at box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the seaside, but it just so happensfamily, to the extent that they are also on the Jurassic Coastwould take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. Of course And that was where the dinosaurs have died out millions of years ago..problem started. or have they? Grandpa says they havenFred didn't really disappeared, they are just very good at hiding, so the pair set off on a quest to finding the missing dinosaurshave any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912266</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leigh HodgkinsonJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Troll SwapEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=I chose this book because my sonsCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, like most childrenas any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have always enjoyed books with naughty children. I had some reservations to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about the bookeverything else when we are small. I was concerned that it might Why shouldn't potty training be yet another book preaching about the importance of good behaviouras much fun as, as most children's books were at one timesay, but I noticed learning about why the publisher was Nosy Crow, sun and they seem very keen to publish books with a difference so I took a chance and was very pleasantly surprised.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857631624</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandrine Dumas RoyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title= Hot AirNo, No, No!
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|summary=This is a story with an environmental message, but at times it seems more like an environmental message with a story. The story itself is terribly limited. It begins with They say the ice caps melting, best picture books are the sun growing too hot and droughtsimplest ones. There are no humans in And nothing could be truer of this booklatest from Justine Avery, so the animals get together to find out what the problem is. They decide that cows are the reason the world is growing warmer and try to find a solutionBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912223</amazonuk>}}
That''My Humongous Hamster'' is s it! But, like all the story best picture books, this tiny snippet of what might happen if the hungry hamster ate all of his food in one gulp and got text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger and bigger and bigger. Each page shows on the gigantic hamster in a variety of humorous situations, each one funnier than inside that it appears on the lastoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848123132</amazonuk>1638820457
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|title=The Farm Shop
|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go 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. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this 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, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver Jeffers0995647895|title=Lost Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and FoundAnita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=I can only describe Lost and Found as Sadie's mother always said that she was a work of art. The story is beautiful in its simplicitydreamer, and the illustrations also have a magical quality to themher mind never on what she should be doing. I have read criticism of some of Jeffers' early works for his style of drawing, especially She lives by the thin stick like legs of the ''The Boy''. The critics seem River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to have fallen silent on this book though and there is nothing but praise for it. The boy is not the most realistic drawing of a child I have seen, but there is something special about 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. spend hours at The rest of his illustrations are simple and uncluttered as well. Many depict only the main characters, a single prop on a white background. Another picture shows only a few house with a darkened sky, a full moon and starsMaritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000730434X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T Smith1782227741|title=PrimroseLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=Princess Primrose is boredOne day, bored, bored! Everyone Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is so formal, so serious swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and proper, around and Primrose just longs to have some funis sucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself Everyone down in the palace is constantly telling her offsewer, telling her what Ted starts to panic. ''notOH HELP ME PLEASE'' to dohe cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. The Queen Reg is worried about her, wondering how Primrose will ever learn to behave like a proper princesskind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth. In 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T SmithB08R7LXQ9S|title=Claude Remy: A book about believing in the Spotlightyourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=54
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|summary=You have met Claude, haven't you? Remy is feeling miserable. He's a funnylet himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, plump little dog whose best friend have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is Sir Bobblysock 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 further when the two of them frequently get themselves embroiled in all sorts of adventuresother kids are around. This time Claude headsSo, accidentallywhen Remy reacts, towards a career on stageit looks as though he was the instigator. But something is amiss in And then he gets into trouble at school and the theatreteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened. Can Claude help save the show?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444909290</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola O'Byrne and Nick Bromley1471191303|title=Open Very Carefully: A Book with Bite!The Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=Here's another brilliant picture book from Nosy Crow. If you haven't already heard This is the story of themIsobel, these newish publishers are ones to watcha little girl who made a big difference. They seem to be nurturing artists and writers Isobel lived with an ability to think outside the box, her parents in a childrenhouse - a very cold house, because her parents couldn's field already replete with creative talent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763661635</amazonuk>}}t afford to put the heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amber Stewart Nick Jones and Layn MarlowSi Clark|title=Too Small for my Big BedOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=This book is for kids graduating from the cot to their first big bed. Even moreMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, it’s for all those parents who didn’t anticipate that once lives in the bedBeartown, there’s no going back to the security of the cot is obsessed with bears.She 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 child can now appear in your bedroom, night after night after nightbear statue outside. So this is the universal problemEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, and here is a supportive and tactful way of addressing itcolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192758403</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}