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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Bunny That Couldn't Be FoundAdam Stower|authortitle=Angela MitchellMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Princess Lolly Murray is supposed to be a little girl humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is in charge able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of lots of grown ups, which in itself is a lovely start to any bookthe two. But Princess Lolly isn’t he's a happy bunny because… Johnny Bunny bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has gone missing! He left her room just as she was waking upbeen 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 she can’t find him anywhere! whiffs. As anyone would be when This time round it drops them into a favourite pet has gone missingViking land, she where a troll hunter is soexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, so sad! So she sets hoards of policemen on the case to search the kingdom for him. They search high be honest, but he's turned up and low in the palace and the gardens but can’t seem he'll have to find what they’re looking for.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848861087</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=How to Wash a Woolly MammothThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Michelle Robinson Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Kate HindleyIndre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Some tasks are just so big When we first meet Birpus and daunting, you don’t know where to startBulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Like washing a woolly mammoth. I mean, it’s a big job when you think Their greatest fear has come about it: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Luckily if you have a woolly mammoth He's right behind them, or just like to imagine you dospewing hot, there is sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this bookat home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a step by step guide ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the taskTree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075802</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Helen StephensB0CC9W7GLR|title=Jo-Jo On the Beach: The Melon DonkeyWinter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=Jo-Jo is donkeyKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but he desperately wishes he were something else. His is a life of hard work and little comfort. He works all day hauling melons, tormented by flieswarm, derided by passers-by or frozen cold and despised by his owner. Finally he finds building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a friendlarge slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. A kind and gentle child who looks into his sad eyes and finds beauty rather than just On top of the ice was a shaggy old beastpolar bear. The child runs out each day to buy a melon As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a few minutes Jo-Jo knows happiness - run for it, but this is no ordinary child, this is Teal knew that the Doge's daughterbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. Sadly, the Doge does not share his daughter's ability He obviously needed to see be taken home on the inner beauty of things, scorning Jo-Jo as bus and given a lowly beast. His daughter will not give up on her friend though, good meal and when disaster strikes Jo-Jo repays her kindness by saving all of the people of Venicesomewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405263539</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=IsabelLet's Noisy TummyCelebrate Being Different|author=David McKeeLainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=Isabel is a very good little girl Todd was excited about spending the weekend with a very naughty tummyhis grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. It burbles He packed two pairs of dungarees and rumbles his favourite hat and gurgles loudly at school, and her teacher is not impressedthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Everyone has advice on what She had promised to do take him to stop it making such rude noises. Her mother tells her the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to eat slower, but that doesn’t work. Her father suggests exercise, her doctor medicine, but still, no joymake new friends. But, one day on a school trip, Isabel’s tummy saves the day At home, his only friend was his mum and saves her classmateshe wondered why that could be. And after Grandma thought that, well, no one really minds a noisy tummy any moreit might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396892</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The Pet ItchToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Elli Woollard Amy Sparkes and Elina EllisKatie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Most children want a pet at some pointElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Mossy Monster wants a pet itch more than anything else in Elsie would race the buses along the world. But his family (refreshingly consisting side of a Granny, an Uncle and a sister) have all sorts of reasons why the park but David couldn't - he shouldn't have one d been born with cerebral palsy and his sister even just seems to delight in tormenting him standing up was very difficult. - as sisters do. But Sister comes though One day Elsie spotted a bus in the end with a crafty plan that will toy shop window which would help Mossy get the Itch of his dreams, David - and make sure was happy to use the grown ups do all the work coins from her money box to pay for it as wellcash was tight at home. There is never a dull moment in this book with temper tantrums Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, rude rhymes and absolutely delightful illustrationswalk behind it. The best part of all though is Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the way Repair Shop, hoping that the adults are experts there could make it so easily bamboozledthat her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=ABC and DoThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Lee Singh Amy Sparkes and Karen WallKatie Hickey
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|summary=Being able Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to recognise letters is an essential aspect of emergent literacyher final destination. I know so many parents and children who feel that being able to sing their ABC She needn's is the same t have worried though as knowing she went to the alphabet. It isnhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn'thave been kinder to her. A child must be able She even had her own room - all to recognise the letter forms, in herself. upper Gradually she relaxed and lower cases, identify them by name and understand the sound or phoneme made by eachbegan to enjoy her life. Learning the alphabet is something that most children will need some She'd help Mrs Russell with at home. No matter how good the school your child attends, baking and when it is impossible for a teacher came to give each child Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the individual attention required to master this subject easily, and failure to do so often leads to lifelong difficulties in literacyfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405265329</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Ernest and Celestine: The PicnicSqueakily Baby|author=Gabrielle VincentBeth Webb
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|summary=ErnestMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a large bear, and Celestine, a small mouse, have made themselves a beautiful picnicsqueakily baby. Everything is packed and ready to go for when they get up tomorrow morning. However, when morning comes itHe's raining very heavily. Ernest says that unfortunately they so tired but he can't have their picnic after all but poor Celestine is distraught- or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. Is there any way Ernest can make things up The sea offers to her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471672</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Mary's Hair|author=Eoin Colfer|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Mary hates her hairhelp. It has black bits rocks Baby gently and brown bitsthe waves sing ''hush, curly bits and straight bits and Mary feels that it looks very much like a bushhush''. Her Daddy says if you don't like something, you should change it (instead Think of whining about it to your parents when they want to relax with gentle wavelets falling onto a cup of tea)sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. MaryThe mermaids join in - 's Daddy'la lou, like many others, should watch what he says to childrenla lay.. Mary follows his advice with hilarious results. First she cuts her hair, but when that doesn't go ' And for a moment it seems to plan she decides to dye ithave worked as Baby closes his eyes. She has learned something from the whole hair cutting experience though, this time she plans Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to try the dye out on someone else firsthappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122261</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Eleanor's EyebrowsA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Timothy Knapman and David TazzymanBriony May Smith
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|summary=Eleanor just canPhilippa Pheasant was 't see 'tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the point of eyebrowsOld Oak Road. They donShe wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't ''do'' anythingeven get a reply. They just Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there, ''two silly, scruffy, hairy, little bits was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of fluff!'' the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Sadly for Eleanor, her eyebrows overhear her describing them in this way, Her uniform and they refuse lollipop stick were both a little amateur to stay where they aren't wanted start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and so pack their bags and set off into the big world Hedgehog was even trained up to find provide a place where someone will love them!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078410</amazonuk>safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Mmm...LetLeilong's EatToo Long!|author=Libby KoponenJulia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=34
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|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children often have a tendency to end up eating brown and white foods, not wanting who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to branch go downstairs – they simply climb out into any more colourful territory for fear of the unknown of purple aubergines or blue blueberrieswindow and slide down his neck. This book aims to get children thinking It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a little bit more about the colours fun way of foodsgoing to school? There is a problem, perhaps encouraging them though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to try something be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a little bit out of tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the ordinary one daybus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052927</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Stick Man's First WordsBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel SchefflerDavid Elliott
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|summary=Does your child roam the house dressed as the Gruffalo? I love a good board book! Do you know ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the words child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''Tiddlerplay'' off by heart? with words and make something quite different from each one. Have you read We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and loved [[Stick Man by Julia Donaldson becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and Axel Scheffler|Stick Man]] as we at then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The Bookbag have? Well, this rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is one for the fans, a first words book full of wonderful illustrations by Axel Scheffler and based ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on the Stick Man storyhis potty changes into a ''sm.......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407137352</amazonuk>'' OK, 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:
''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Squiglet PigOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Joyce Dunbar and Tim HopgoodCordellya Smith
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|summary=When 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 ''Squiglet Pigand'' is based on a real deep sea creaturethe future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the piglet squidability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. This is one of those creatures you have He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see to believe. It honestly does look like Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it always smiling, and very much like the main character in this bookcame about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405257563</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=WildRob Keeley|authortitle=Emily HughesCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=''Wild'' is the story of a girl who has grown up in the forest with only the animals to care for her Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, but this is where she belongs cabbage and she is happyaubergines. All of the animals love When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and she loves them. She learns how nice to speak from the birdseat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, what to eat from the bearswho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, how to play from Lily checks with the foxesteacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the deer and the rabbit keep her company as she sleepsground. She has no clothingJordan says, nor does she need it"I did try to tell her, Her long mane of unruly green hair covers the important bits Miss!" and gives her the appearance of something that has sprung to life from the forest itself. She is creature of pure innocenceeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263087</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''
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|titleauthor=My ZooJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Rod CampbellEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=My children have always been drawn to Rod Campbell's simple but appealing illustrationsToots, so I was delighted to have a chance to review this booktrumps, even though my boys are now older than the expected age rangefarts. This is Whatever your word for them, find us a very simple book. There are fifteen large die cut animals on a pastel coloured background. The illustrations have a unique quality to them child that I can only describe as ''Rod Campbell'doesn't find them irresistibly funny. The animals all have friendly appearanceFunny to talk about and joke about, and a kind of gentleness to themthat is. The front view of each animal has only the animal's name in bold black print. When But horribly embarrassing if you turn let one go at the page, there is a single sentence about the animal in smaller printwrong time. With a very young babyIn class, the parent can read only the animals namesay, perhaps adding the sound for each animalwhen everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. As the child grows older, the parents can begin reading the extra line on each animalAt you. The fact the animals are larger than usual Justine Avery's latest entry in these pictures, her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and on sturdy pages that are perfect for little handscalmly, means this book would be ideal for babies as young as six months. I feel this would make a lovely first book for young child. As much as we loved [[Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell|Dear Zoo]]with the familiar humour attached, I feel this book explains that tooting is even better for infantsperfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230770924</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Taylor and Ross CollinsB09BG8V3Q6|title=Robot RumpusWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=My sons tore open ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the parcel with ''Robot RumpusEverybody Potties!'' and were already reading it themselves before I could even get the tape series from the rest Justine Avery. This series of the box, so they had one up on me when we settled down fun picture books aims to read it later as a family. We began looking through the robot models on the inside of take the front pain out of cover, potty training children and as I mentioned which ones I wish we could have, the boys were already laughing replace it with some fun. It's a ''just'' ''wait'' ''and'' ''see'' look on their facesworthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396280</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick InkpenB07GZ81J7C|title=Baggy Brown When Fred the Snake Got Squished and the Royal BabyMended|author=Peter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=Baggy Brown had the best possible start in lifeMeet Fred. He was the first bear off the production line at Better Bears Limited and was destined Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for The Palacereasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. Baggy was to be the bear But I'm getting ahead of Princess Sophinyiniannia - thatmyself: I's Sophie to d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and me - but life went disastrously wrong for Baggy before he reached the end even those of the conveyor beltus who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. A NOT FOR SALE notice was stuck on his nose and He arrived as a NO 1 tag present in his eara box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, but it to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the NOT FOR SALE notice which proved his undoingproblem started. He Fred didn't line himself up correctly, and fell straight off the end of the conveyor belt and into the big red teddy bear machinehave any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444916467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pranas T NaujokaitisJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Radically Awesome Adventures of the Animal Princess: Balloon ToonsEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=I know so many parents who are completely fed up with the stereotyped role of little girls and especially princesses in stories. If you are looking for stories with a totally different type of princessCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, then this book is for as any parent will tell you. The little princessBut really, or Animal Princess why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as she is known, is most certainly not a damsel in distress. She is an active heroine boldly seeking adventuresay, learning about why the sun and the messier the better. Rather than looking like a beauty pageant winner in a formal gown, the little Animal Princess looks refreshingly child like moon take turns in the illustrations. I am delighted to see a princess drawn with the proportions of an ordinary child rather than a Barbie doll. She also prefers nice comfortable animal pyjamas to ball gowns.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>160905296X</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel Cleary Justine Avery and Kanako UsuiNaday Meldova|title=My Friend Fred (the Plant)No, No, No!
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|summary=I loved comic They say the best picture books as a child. As an adult. I love them even more as wonderful way to encourage literacy in young children. Unfortunately comic books for children are hard to come by now, and there are very few books in this format for children under age 8the simplest ones. Ballooon Toons seems poised to change And nothing could be truer of this with a delightful new series of children's books printed in comic book style formatlatest from Justine Avery, but with a sturdy hardback bindingBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052951</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellen Crimi-Trent194812467X|title=My School DayThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4.5
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|summary=The feature that initially attracted me 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 ''My School Day'' was the hugetop of the hill, interactive clock face on the front coverthey see a big barn with a sign outside. Learning to tell the time It's a farm shop! But this is such an important life skill, but sometimes young children can struggle a farm shop with a difference: all the conceptstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. A hands-on approachThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, combining the senses of sight and touch can be an effective method of teachingeven some mice. The child is learning through play Excited, Kirelle and having lots of fun at the same timeSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849158533</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Smith0995647895|title=The Hundred Decker BusSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Can you imagine if one day, youSadie're on the bus to town and suddenly the driver decides to take s mother always said that she was a different road? Perhaps he carries dreamer, her mind never on down this road, just to see where it might go. I know what I'd she should be doing, . She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and it isn't sitting happily in my seat waiting she loves to see where we end up! However, in fiction anything can happen and in this story, when the driver heads off on his own little jaunt, his passengers come along quite happily with him!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230754589</amazonuk>}}spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Dewdney1782227741|title=Llama Llama Shopping DramaLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a few months since we [[Llama Llama Red Pyjama by Anna Dewdney|first met]] Llama Llama. At deep puddle and the time he was suffering from night-time terrors, but today Mama water is taking Llama Llama shopping swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and she promises that there'll be around and is sucked down a treat when it's all finisheddrain on the side of the street. Finding himself Llama Llama was happily playing down in the sun: he doesnsewer, Ted starts to panic. 't 'OH HELP ME PLEASE'want'' to go shopping he cries and alerts the trip doesn't begin well. It's a big buildingattention of Reg the sewer rat, with lots who plucks him out of signs and lots of aisles. He doesn't like the musicdirty water using his cane, the ladies around all small far too sweet which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he's staring at their ''knees''. And that's ''before'' he gets to the agony dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of trying on sweaters and shoes. You know what's going to happen, don't you? Well, Llama Llama does it big timebroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910906</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo TimmersB08R7LXQ9S|title=BangRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=54
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|summary=It all starts with a deer in a bright yellow carRemy is feeling miserable. He has a stack of books tied to the back of 's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his carsidekicks Ryan and Brandon, but couldn't resist reading one while he drives. It might have been OK if a bin had not fallen from the lorry in front of laughing at Remy, calling him, but engrossed in his book names because he never notices until with a very loud ''bang'' he comes crashing to a stopis short and has small eyes. This sets off a chain reaction resulting in a ten-car pile up as every car They are mean but one comes crashing into the car in front of itthey are not stupid. The quick thinking of Mr Gecko means he is able They are careful to stop wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just in time with a screech of that little bit further when the brakesother kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, but Mr Penguin in it looks as though he was the ice cream van is not so lucky, crashing instigator. And then he gets into the gecko and his truck load of multi coloured paint trouble at school and forcing the Gecko forward teachers don't believe him when he tries to smash into the last car in the pile upexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579181</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin1471191303|title=AkissiThe Invisible|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=Many parents are becoming upset with This is the over sexualisation story of female characters in children's films and books. I know many are also fed up with the stereotyped princess character. If you are looking for a book for Isobel, a little girl who doesn't suit the stereotypes, Akissi is absolutely perfectmade a big difference. In addition to breaking stereo types Isobel lived with her parents in children's literature, 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 it is the stories themselveshouse - a very cold house, or simply the type of parent who chooses that type of story, I donbecause her parents couldn't know. Still I have always gone out of my way afford to make sure my children have books which depict children from a wide variety of locations and cultures. This book gives the reader a very realistic vision of what life in Africa might be like. Best of all though, this book lets put the children just be children. They don't look like adults and they don't act like adults. I think we need more books like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190926301X</amazonuk>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Georgie Adams Nick Jones and Selina YoungSi Clark|title=Nanny FoxOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Everyone knows that foxes eat chickensMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. It's Her favourite toy is Berisford, a storybook standardteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. But hereEvery night, in this story, Arnold she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the Fox likes chickens bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to be his friendsBee Bear, not his dinnera colourful painted bear that lives at her school. He'd rather have a peanut butter sandwich insteadShe even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444008102</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}