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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leo TimmersAdam Stower|title=BangMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=It all starts with Murray is supposed to be a deer in 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 bright yellow car. He bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a stack of books tied to hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the back of his carcatflap they both use can chuck them out, but couldn't resist reading one while he drives. It might have been OK if a bin had not fallen from into the lorry in front of himregular back garden, but engrossed in his book he never notices until with into a very loud ''bang'' he comes crashing to a stopworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. This sets off time round it drops them into a chain reaction resulting in Viking land, where a ten-car pile up as every car but troll hunter is expected – well, one comes crashing into the car in front of it. The quick thinking of Mr Gecko means he is able much bigger than Murray was, to stop just in time with a screech of the brakesbe honest, but Mr Penguin in the ice cream van is not so lucky, crashing into the gecko he's turned up and his truck load of multi coloured paint and forcing the Gecko forward he'll have to smash into the last car in the pile up.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579181</amazonuk>0008561249

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1732898766|title=Marguerite Abouet The Adventures of Birpus and Mathieu SapinBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|titleauthor=AkissiWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=54

|summary=Many parents are becoming upset with When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the over sexualisation Forest of female characters in children's films and booksFine Repute. I know many are also fed up with Their greatest fear has come about: the stereotyped princess characterSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. If you are looking for a book for a little girl who doesn He't suit the stereotypess right behind them, spewing hot, Akissi is absolutely perfectsour milk from his nostrils. In addition to breaking stereo types in children (Please don's literature, t try this book gives children a first hand look at life in another country. I have often read that children exposed to stories of other cultures usually grow up more tolerant. Whether home: it is the stories themselves, or simply the type of parent who chooses that type of story, I donwon't knowend well. Still I have always gone out of my way to make sure my children have books which depict children from ) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a wide variety ladder of locations moss and culturesvines was lowered for them, they escaped. This book gives They climbed up to the reader a very realistic vision of what life Tree Wee homes high up in Africa might be like. Best of all thoughthe tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, this book lets the children just be children. They don't look like adults Nester Nook and they don't act like adults. I think we need more books like thisGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190926301X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tor FreemanB0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Toucan BrothersWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda

|summary=I hate Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to mention illustrations before mentioning the story with a children's bookbe at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the illustrations are clearly shoreline. On top of the first thing you will notice with ice was a polar bear. As the book. My children, drawn by ice bumped onto the illustrationssand, had this pulled out of the box of books it came in bear woke and were sitting down reading it before I could even sort through with wobbly legs moved from the restice. As soon as I saw this, I thought of [[:Category:Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]]. The illustrations are highly reminiscent of Scarry's work Kit was all for making a run for it, but if anything these are bolder, brighter Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and busierthen another. If you have a child who is a visual learner, or who needs plenty of visual cues when reading, this book is definitely one you want He obviously needed to take a closer look at. The expressions be taken home on the characters faces are perfect bus and given a good meal and each page literally seems somewhere to come to life with so many activities going onsleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447218639</amazonuk> What else would you do?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gemma Merino1913839656|title=The Crocodile Who DidnLet't Like Water s Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5

|summary='The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water' begins Todd was excited about spending the weekend with a Mother crocodile carrying a basket of blue eggshis grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. But one He packed two pairs of the eggs isn't quite like the others, dungarees and his favourite hat and when the little crocs hatch, one crocodile isn't quite like the othersthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. All of She had promised to take him to the other crocodiles love Friday Night Club at the water, but the odd one out prefers local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to climb treesmake new friends. The other crocodiles were not cruel At home, but he felt left out as they all played water games. He tried to fit in, but his only friend was his mum and he just wasn't meant to wondered why that could be a water creature. His attempts to Grandma thought that it might be something other than what nature intended are touching, but also terribly funny. Soon the reason for the little crocodile's dislike of water becomes apparent - he isn't a crocodile at all and he wasn't meant to swim - because he was meant to flylooked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447214714</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Georgie Adams and Selina Young1529504775|title=Nanny FoxThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=Everyone knows that foxes eat chickensElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. ItElsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn's t - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a storybook standardbus 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. But hereGradually, David learned to stand up, in this storyuse the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Arnold Elsie brought the Fox likes chickens bus, now damaged and rusted, to be his friendsthe Repair Shop, not his dinnerhoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it. He'd rather have a peanut butter sandwich instead!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444008102</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Wauters1529504767|title=One Night, Far From HereThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey

|summary=I didn't think they made books like this any more. It's Susan was very rare young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to see a book with transparent pages nowadaysher final destination. I She needn't have literally searched for years, snapping up worried though as she went to the odd one from used book sellers. These may have gone out of style now in favour home of books with batteries, buttons Mr and bellsMrs Russell, but these engage a child in a way no battery operated contraption possibly could. Children are fascinated by the pages, not just my own children, but every child I who couldn't have seen with thesebeen kinder to her. This book is wonderful for story time, but it is also the type of book that children seek out, quietly turning the pages, lost in their She even had her own imaginationroom - all to herself. Experts are beginning Gradually she relaxed and began to recognise playing enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with books as a crucial step in emergent literacy. This is a book children will turn the baking and when it came to again Christmas Eve Susan and again, experiencing a different adventure each time they lose themselves in Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the pages, and learning that books offer excitement and adventurefollowing morning. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263028</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Anholt and Laurence Anholt1916459943|title=Babies, Babies, Babies!Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=This book is one of those lovely books that covers an awful lot in just Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a few pagessqueakily baby. Full of sweet pictures and gentle rhyming text it takes you on a journey through the sort of things that babiesHe's so tired but he can't - or won' lives revolve around t - foodgo to sleep: instead, animals, family, clothes he just lies on his blanket and playing''wails''. You can read The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the text as itwaves sing ''hush, hush''s written or . Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you may find that your little ones are happy to just look through have the booksound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, talking la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to you about what they can see, what it reminds them of, have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what they'd like s going to do that dayhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314363</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Inkpen and Mick Inkpen140639131X|title=Zoe and Beans: Hello OscarA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May Smith

|summary=Zoe and her dog, Beans, are in Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the garden when Beans sniffs out a guinea pigOld Oak Road. Fortunately Beans is a very unaggressive-looking dog who seems unlikely She wrote to finish off any small rodent in one excited bite. His curiosity allows the story to accumulate an ever-more exciting set of roaming pets for Zoe to discover, including, surprisingly, mayor about the problem but didn't even get a chameleonreply. By the time Zoe gets Philippa wasn't a bird to shouting out sit back on her name to tail feathers when there was a parrot, who insists on calling her Oscar, Beans has disappeared through 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. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a hole in little amateur to start with but the fencebenefits were obvious. That’s when Oscar, All the owner of all these wonderful animals, crawls backwards through used the fence crossing and how the friends meet, so I’m guessing this is the first of Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a series of stories featuring Zoe and Oscarsafe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447210263</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Inkpen and Mick Inkpen1776574338|title=Zoe Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Beans: Look at me!Bei Lynn

|summary=This is Every morning Leilong, the 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 even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the first board book in a Zoe window and Beans series in developmentslide down his neck. It's perfect, so isn't it will ? What could be played with and handled by very young childrena more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. Babies Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and toddlers will like the cheery pics, friendly faces – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and Beans, the faithful playmate-dogtraffic regularly gets snarled up. I loved Beans. He conveyed all The school decides that he can't be the resignation of a household mutt dominated by an ever-demanding toddlerbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230766544</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natalie Marshall1776574028|title=Monster, Be Good!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=4.5

|summary=NoI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's 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 each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu -one need be frightened of these beasties, and it’s not becomes a story about conquering fears''balletphant''. Instead, these are miscreant monsters The buffalo who are put in their places has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with some very firm guidancea hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) Children will recognise the orders instantly, for parents come out with them in varying tones of tiredness, resignation or irritation The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a daily basis''sm..... In fact..'' OK, I have the sneaky feeling that the author is on the side of the adults.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053141</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!

{{newreview|author=Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton|title=Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are two dogs with half baked idea for what thy think will 'It'll be the perfect crime - despite their previous failures. The dogs prepare a wonderful feast to lure their intended victims outbrilliant, making cupcakesjust remember, pies, buns and every sort don't let go of baked treat you can imaginemy hand. They have a wonderful time baking, but all the while they are planning to rob all of their guests when the party is in full swing. The feast is a huge success, but the robbery is another disaster. A small act of kindness and a heart felt apology results in forgiveness, and a wonderful idea for a new career. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631462</amazonuk>''

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lane SmithB09MYXSRV4|title=ItOtter's a Little BookCoat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=54

|summary=Lane SmithWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present 's blockbuster hit 'Itand's A Book' spent six months on the New York Times bestsellers listfuture. Her new 'It's a Little Book' provides a very similar storyRabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, but on a level better suited not the ability to use it well. He liked to very young childrentrick other animals. Both books feature He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a very computer-literate donkey and a quiet thoughtful monkeyrace with Turtle. In both books, donkey has never seen You might think that's not a book before fair contest but wait and has all sorts of questions to which monkey see. Things are not always replies ''no'' or 'as they seem. I'll tell you how it's a book''. 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, or to understand why monkey likes this strange thing so much - until monkey shows him the magic of books as wellcame about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023076875X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim HopgoodRob Keeley|title=Ping and Pong are Best Friends (mostly)Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54

|summary=Ping Lily loves eating fruit and Pong are best matesvegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, but Ping feels that he is always in Pong's shadowcabbage and aubergines. Anything Ping can doWhen her friends at school turn up their noses, Pong can do better. Ping Lily is learning keen to skateexplain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, taking baby steps who tells her that carrots grow on the ice while Pong twirls and zooms around himtrees. Ping paints a colourful canvas Infuriated, Lily checks with bright coloured splodges while Pong paints a lovely vase with flowers. No matter what he doesthe teacher, Pong can do it so much better who explains that poor Ping gives up fruits grow on trees and decides to do nothing at allvegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. But perhaps there is something that Ping can do better than anyone elseJordan says, and that it just to be a friend. This is a fun book "I did try to read that had my four year old laughing out loudtell her, but there is a lot more to this book than humour; it has a lovely heart warming message about friendship as wellMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707749X</amazonuk>B09HHN541V

 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=Mark Sperring Justine Avery and Sarah WarburtonNaday Meldova|title=Mabel Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|summary=Good children’s books open new windows on ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the world''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This title did just that.  The viewpoint character is a sharp-tongued mouse series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with Attitudesome fun. His best friend is Mabel, It's a kindly little girl of few words. The two friends are discussing why they are bestestworthy aim, bestest friends as they stroll in an unguessable Euro-city. Their discussion is interrupted by Monsieur Famous French photographer, then Senora Prima Ballerina. The mouse misinterprets their criticisms and blows his top in defence of his friend, Mabel. But he’s got it wrong, they are talking about himany frustrated parent will tell you. Fortunately the mouse’s own high self-esteem and Mabel’s sympathetic realism defuse the crisis. It was nicely unpredictable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007468369</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|authortitle=Kara Lebihan When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Deborah AllwrightMended|titleauthor=Mrs Vickers' Favourite KnickersPeter Cotton|rating=34.5

|summary=Mrs Vickers' Favourite Knickers have an adventure of their ownMeet Fred. Well, flying high above town over the seaactually, before finally making a rather unusual landing right back were they started fromyou're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. Children But I'm getting ahead of a certain age love knickers, and myself: I'm certain this book would be d better tell you a smash hit with bit more about Fred. Fred is a nursery or reception class, snake and even children up to those of us who have a phobia about 7or 8 snakes are likely going to warm to enjoy reading this oncehim. This book is quite short, and ideal for children He arrived as a present in a box with very short attention spans, holes so that he could breathe and considering immediately became part of the subject matter is almost certain family, to hold the attention of extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a large group of children easilywalk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405253959</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harriet Ziefert Justine Avery and Simms TabackNaday Meldova|title=Quack Like a DuckEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=You mustnCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't be shy if , as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn're going t it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to read this booklearn about everything else when we are small. ItWhy shouldn's not t potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the sort of book you can whisper on a train to a fidgety baby, or that you pack moon take turns in your nappy bag for quiet times when you're out and about. This is the sort of book that is going to require some very loud moo-ing, so consider yourselves warned!sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609052609</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH

{{newreview|author=Richard Byrne|title=Penguins Can't Fly!|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Gregory the Gull and Hudson the penguin were both born on the same day and have been great friends ever since, doing everything together. In the lovely illustrations, we can see them having a bath, fishing'No, sledgingNo, skating and giving each other thoughtful and special gifts. However, when Gregory sees some other some gulls having fun flying over the beach, he naturally decides to join in. So does Hudson but of course there is a problemNo! However hard Hudson flaps his little wings, he just can’t fly. 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 based around 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 flysimplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395136</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Penelope Harper and Cate James|title=Lollipop and Grandpa's Dinosaur Hunt|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Lollipop's family settles in for a day at the seasideNo, but it just so happensno, that they are also on the Jurassic Coastno! Okay, okay. Of course the dinosaurs have died out millions of years agoYes, you may... or have they? Grandpa says they haven't really disappeared, they are just very good at hiding, so the pair set off on a quest to finding the missing dinosaurs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912266</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Leigh Hodgkinson|title=Troll Swap|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I chose this book because my sonsThat's it! But, like most childrenall the best picture books, have always enjoyed books with naughty children. I had some reservations about this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the book. I was concerned inside that it might be yet another book preaching about the importance of good behaviour, as most children's books were at one time, but I noticed appears on the publisher was Nosy Crow, and they seem very keen to publish books with a difference so I took a chance and was very pleasantly surprisedoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857631624</amazonuk>1638820457

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandrine Dumas Roy194812467X|title= Hot AirThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic

|summary=This 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 story with an environmental message, but at times it seems more like an environmental message big barn with a storysign outside. The story itself It's a farm shop! But this is terribly limited. It begins a farm shop with a difference: all the ice caps melting, the sun growing too hot stallholders and droughtcustomers are farmyard animals. There are no humans in this booksheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, so the animals get together to find out what the problem isand even some mice. They decide that cows are the reason the world is growing warmer Excited, Kirelle and try to find a solutionSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912223</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=John Martz, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello|title=Who's On First?|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I very nearly passed this book by, as my sons have no knowledge of or interest in baseball. But the name of the authors caught my eye. I was a surprised to see Abbott and Costello listed as the authors of a new book. After all, What will they have been dead for decades. This could give the term ghost writer a whole new meaning, and then the penny dropped. The title, 'Who's On Firstbuy?' is also the title of one of Abbott and Costello's most famous comedy skits. This book is taken directly from the skit, with only a few minor alterations. Remembering how side splittingly funny the skit was - I knew in instant the children would enjoy this. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorna Freytag0995647895|title=My Humongous HamsterSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5

|summary=Sadie''My hamster doesn’t do much''s mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing.<br>''He just sleeps She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and eats and eats and sleeps''she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.<br>''Sometimes he gets so HUMoNGOUSLY HUNGRY....''

''My Humongous HamsterHer class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>' is 'To the story of what might happen if 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 hungry hamster ate all of his food in one gulp where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and got bigger missed the closing bell and bigger and biggerthe attendant's warning shout. Each page shows When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the gigantic hamster midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a variety world of humorous situationsdolphins, pirates, each one funnier than the lastmermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848123132</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Child1782227741|title=I Am Not Sleepy And I Will Not Go To BedLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=54

|summary=Like many childrenOne day, Lola does not particularly like going to bedGold Ted falls into a puddle. She likes staying up colouring, scribbling, sticking It's quite a deep puddle and most of all chatteringthe water is swirling. When she is told that it is time for bed, she always has an answer as Poor Ted starts to why she should not go: she never gets tired; she can’t clean her teeth because somebody spin around and around and is eating her toothpaste; and sucked down a drain on the side of the whales are swimming street. Finding himself down in the bathsewer, Ted starts to panic. The list is endless especially where ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the highly imaginative Lola is concerned. Howeversewer rat, older brother Charlie knows Lola so well; if anyone can persuade her to get into bedwho plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, it’s which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms himup with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326094</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver JeffersB08R7LXQ9S|title=Lost Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and FoundCaroline Siegal|rating=54

|summary=I can only describe Lost and Found as a work of art. The story Remy is beautiful in its simplicity, and the illustrations also have a magical quality to themfeeling miserable. I have read criticism of some of JeffersHe' early works for his style of drawing, especially the thin stick like legs of the s let himself down ''The Boyagain''. The critics seem to school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have fallen silent on this book though been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and there is nothing has small eyes. They are mean but praise for itthey are not stupid. The boy is not They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when 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 bookskids are around. It is not a crude drawing, but a very individualisedSo, artistic expression of Jeffers' stylewhen Remy reacts, which is rapidly becoming a personal trademark. The rest of his illustrations are simple and uncluttered it looks as well. Many depict only though he was the main characters, a single prop on a white backgroundinstigator. Another picture shows only a few house with a darkened sky, a full moon And then he gets into trouble at school and starsthe teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000730434X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver Jeffers1471191303|title=It Wasn't Me (The Hueys)Invisible|author=Tom Percival

|summary=The title of this book will be familiar to every small child. I think it may be one of This is the first sentences many learn. The scenario will also be very familiar. The story is about of Isobel, a family, little girl who usually get along very wellmade a big difference. But just once Isobel lived with her parents in while a house - they dona very cold house, because her parents couldn't. This just happens afford to be one put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of those times when they are not getting along at all, the window and Gillespie walks into a huge argument. He asks why they are fighting, but as mad as everyone is, no one can quite remember. A few start pointing fingers as to who started crept up the fight, but each character insists he was not the one who started corner of the rowbedpost. They never do remember what caused the quarrel but eventually wander off for something a bit more exciting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007420676</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Alex T Smith|title=Primrose|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Princess Primrose is bored, bored, bored! Everyone is so formal, so serious The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and proper, and Primrose just longs to have some funthey were happy. Everyone in Then the palace is constantly telling her off, telling her what ''not'day came when they couldn' t afford the rent for the house and they had to do. The Queen is worried about her, wondering how Primrose will ever learn move to behave like a proper princessthe far side of the city. In This part of the end they decide that they must call in Grandmamacity was cold, for surely if anyone can make Primrose behave it's Grandmama!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407109669</amazonuk>sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex T SmithNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Claude One Night in the SpotlightBeartown|rating=54

|summary=You Many children have met Claudean obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, haven't you? He's a funnyteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, plump little dog whose best friend is Sir Bobblysock she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the two of them frequently get themselves embroiled in all sorts of adventuresbear statue outside. This time Claude heads, accidentallyEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, towards a career colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on stage. But something is amiss in the theatre. Can Claude help save the show?her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444909290</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}

{{newreview|author=Nicola O'Byrne and Nick Bromley|title=Open Very Carefully: A Book with Bite!|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Here's another brilliant picture book from Nosy Crow. If you haven't already heard of them, these newish publishers are ones Move on to watch. They seem to be nurturing artists and writers with an ability to think outside the box, in a children's field already replete with creative talent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763661635</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]