Open main menu

Changes

3,425 bytes removed ,  09:24, 2 December 2023
no edit summary
[[Category:For Sharing|*]]
[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray 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…__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->|isbn=0008561249}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Ten Little PiratesThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Mike Brownlow Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Simon RickertyIndre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=54
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He'Ten little piratess right behind them, sailing out to seaspewing hot,sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won'<br>''Looking t end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for adventurethem, happy as can bethey escaped.''<br>''Are They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they hunting treasure? Are they going far?''<br>''Ten little pirates all saylived with their Grand Wees, 'Arrrrrrr!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408320037</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Little GhostWinter Visitor|author=Otfried Preussler Chris Green and Anthea BellJenny Fionda
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=I have Kit and Teal were just beginning to admit I wonder whether it was slightly better to be 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 shoreline. prejudiced about this book. The Little Ghost immediately brought back memories On top of Robert Bright's ''Georgie '' which I had cherished as the ice was a childpolar bear. Like Georgie As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Little Ghost is Kit was all for making a wonderful friendly character, if you are looking run for a frightit, this book will not but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be at all suitable. But if you jut want taken home on the bus and given a feel good adventure for younger readers, this book is just the thingmeal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397716</amazonuk> What else would you do?
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Mixed Up Nursery RhymesLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Hilary Robinson and Liz PichonLainey Dee|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Many children have a great fondness for traditional nursery rhymes Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and it doesN't then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take long for them him to know them so well that they can join in the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as you are reading he wanted to themmake new friends. They know that Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that Dr Foster went to Gloucestercould be. However, what fun Grandma thought that it might be to sometimes mix up these tales so that the rhymes become even stranger and funnier than the originalsbecause he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904647</amazonuk>
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Little Mouse's Big Book of BeastsThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Emily GravettAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
|rating=4.5
|genre=for For Sharing|summary=You know right from Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the start that this is going to be a special bookred buses drive past. The cover art is fantastic Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with a true 3D feel that truly pops, cerebral palsy and when you open it, the animals jump out at youeven just standing up was very difficult. Literally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745385</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Dixie O'Day One day Elsie spotted a bus in the Fast Lane|author=Shirley Hughes and Clara Vulliamy|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The first collaboration by award winning children’s author [[:Category:Shirley Hughes|Shirley Hughes]] toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her illustrator/author daughter [[:Category:Clara Vulliamy|Clara Vulliamy]] has been eagerly anticipated money box to pay for some time and this gorgeous little book more than meets expectationsit as cash was tight at home. In Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the first of a new series we meet Dixiebus for support, a car-loving dog who is always ready for adventure and Percy his smaller and slightly more cautious friendwalk behind it. Together Many decades later, Elsie brought the two chums enter an all-day race in Dixie’s car bus, now damaged and are determined that they will win first prize. Howeverrusted, to the Repair Shop, first they discover hoping that they will be up against Dixie’s arch rival Lou-Ella, then all manner of mishaps cause them problems and the race does not go smoothly for our heroesexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it. Can Dixie save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782300120</amazonuk>
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Jump!The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Carol ThompsonAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Who doesn’t like 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 final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to jump? Jumping on the bedhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, jumping who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with friends, jumping like a kangaroo – it’s all good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184643615X</amazonuk>the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Boris Gets SpotsSqueakily Baby|author=Carrie Weston and Tim WarnesBeth Webb
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The pupils in Miss Cluck’s class have an awful lot of fun at schoolMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. In fact He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, if our schools were like theirs, you’d want to go every single day he just lies on his blanket and never make a fuss''wails''. The latest news is that Mr Gander from sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the farm is coming to visit! Everyone’s excited – everyonewaves sing ''hush, that is, except Boris who asks if he can sit quietly inside insteadhush''. Miss Cluck is Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a lovely teacher so of course she says yes but sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in the flurry of excitement- ''la lou, no one really stops la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to ask why the big, lively bear wants have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to miss out on the funhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192734164</amazonuk>
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=SnowflakesA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Cerrie Burnell and Laura Ellen AndersonBriony May Smith|rating=24.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Mia is a little girl from Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the city who moves Old Oak Road. She wrote to the village of Silver Vale mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to live with sit back on her Grandmother in tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the forest. The first question you might encounter from curious readers is why this happens. And where her mummy benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and daddy aredecided that she would set up something similar herself. What’s happened to them? Was it something bad? Did they just leave Mia behind one day, go to work Her uniform and not return? It’s not too clear and the opening picture which shows lollipop stick were both a little girl, all alone, looking out of amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the window crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to the city below, is rather sadprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135031</amazonuk>
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Something DeliciousLeilong's Too Long!|author=Jill Lewis Julia Liu and Ali PyeBei Lynn
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=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 window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There once lived is a Greedy Guzzler who was problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always eating having to be careful about where he puts his feet and during one particular day: – because he'He had munched breakfast, crunched elevenses, chomped twelveses s longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and guzzled traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the most enormous lunchbus anymore.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405262389</amazonuk>
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Where's Tim's Ted? It's Time for Bed!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=Ian Whybrow and Russell AytoDavid Elliott|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Tim I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is visiting Grandad and Granny Red on aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the farm. It’s bed timechild who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but Tim can’t find Tedhas mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. He makes them look for him, but they don’t really bother We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. Just The buffalo who has had a perfunctory peek behind the sofa bath (complete with yellow duck) and, when that doesn’t unearth the teddy, Tim is packed then dries off to bed with the promise that they’ll look again in the morninga hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. But it’s hard to sleep without your toy, isn’t The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it? So!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' OK, deep in the middle of the night, Tim creeps out of bed to let's not go searching once more. He’s not alone, though. Grandad and Granny Red might be fast asleep but others on the farm there Some people are awake, and like the Pied Piper, Tim soon finds himself with quite a following.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007509561</amazonuk>eating!
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Momo and Snap are not FriendsCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Airlie Anderson Ed Boxall|rating=54
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They''La la la!'' ''Tum ti tum!''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:
''Eek!It'll be brilliant, just remember, dont let go of my hand.''Ack!'' Y’know?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846435986</amazonuk>
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=GeorgeOtter's Dragon Goes to SchoolCoat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Claire Freedman and Russell JulianCordellya Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=I would have been useless during 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 ''Take your pet to schooland'' weekthe future. The goldfish who lived with us for short moments of my life (and the entirety of their short lives) wouldn’t have been very portable and even if they had Rabbit developed intelligence - but, they’d have been a bit boringunfortunately, swimming in circles mouthing 'o-o-o' not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. I would have been immensely He was also jealous of anyone who brought which was how he came to be in a lively puppy or race with Turtle. You might think that's not a cute snuffly bunny rabbitfair contest but wait and see. As a bit of a trophy whore even at a young age, I would have been very sad that Things are not always as they seem. I wasn’t really in the running for the ''Best Pet'' cupll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132067</amazonuk>
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Lycett-SmithRob Keeley|title=MooCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees! Said Morris|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=There was a little mouse called Morris Lily loves eating fruit and he was a very unusual mousevegetables. Whilst all the other mice said ''Squeak''She likes carrots, broccoli, Morris said: ''MOO!'' cabbage and ''HONK!'' and ''NEIGH!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428175</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Blood and Guts and Rats' Tail Pizza|author=Vivian French and Chris Fisher|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Despite a revolting menu with dishes like slug aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and snail stew or rats' tail pizzas, Billy Bone's café was usually packed at lunchtime. Perhaps because there was no other place how nice to eat. All of their customers were maleOne day, because neither Billy Bonespoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, nor his assistant Hank liked girls at allwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. A large sign in Infuriated, Lily checks with the window proclaimed ''Absolutely No Girls! But one day the customers disappeared - teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and what was worsevegetables, Hank soon discovered their customers had all been stolen by girlslike carrots, grow in the ground. The girls were very largeJordan says, green and hairy but they were girls nonetheless"I did try to tell her, Miss!" and their traveling cake shop had enticed all of Billy Bone's customers awayeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444007297</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=PittipatYou Can's Saucer of Moont Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Geraldine McCaughrean Justine Avery and Maria NilssonKate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Pittipat ''For the little black kitten is off to big, grownup girls out there, the moonpotty masters in training, brave and fearless, for he"You Can's heard that the moon t Wear Panties!" is a saucer cry (the big-girl kind!) of cream toilet triumph and he thinks that his brothers and sisters have gone up there without him to drink it all up! Off he sets to chase after them, determined to get his own lick of the cream!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904663</amazonuk>}}persevering panty pride.''
{{newreview
|title=Ruff and the Wonderfully Amazing Busy Day
|author=Caroline Jayne Church
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Ruff, a rather sweet little dog, is a happy fellow. He pootles about, busy all day long and singing little songs to himself as he works. But sometimes he wonders what it would be like to have someone else to sing with him. Busy making himself a new pond in the garden one day he discovers a small mouse who appears to be rather cross about someone digging up his home...oh dear, Ruff! Can he help the little mouse to find a new home to live in?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007483570</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|titleauthor=The Day The Crayons QuitJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Drew Daywalt and Oliver JeffersEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Duncan loves colouring but one day he receives a very surprising stack of letters from his crayons. Some are quite contentToots, but others are really getting fed up. Red and Blue want a breaktrumps, they get used far too much and are nearly worn awayfarts. Purple is delighted to be the colour of the wizards and dragonsWhatever your word for them, but he is rather fussy about staying inside the lines. Black wants to colour in fun things like beach balls, and yellow and orange canfind us a child that doesn't stop quarrelling over which should be the colour of the sunfind them irresistibly funny. Peach has had her wrapper peeled off Funny to talk about and won't come out at all nowjoke about, as she that is embarrassed about being naked. Pink however is But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the most upset allwrong time. Duncan has never used Pink once. Pink wants to be something funIn class, say, like a dinosaur.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513755</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Triassic Terrors|author=Isaac Lenkiewicz when everyone will hear it and Nick Crumpton|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=With a son who has insisted he everyone will become a palaeontologist since the age of three, we have collected a vast assortment of books on dinosaurs and prehistoric animalslaugh. I have never found one yet which so clearly explains exactly what is and is not a dinosaurAt you. The majority of the reptiles Justine Avery's latest entry in this book are not dinosaurs. The Triassic saw the very first of the dinosaurs to walk the earth, her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and these were much smaller than their Jurassic gently and Cretaceous counterparts. There is no shortage of fascinating creatures here though. This book has a wide variety of reptilian lifecalmly, made all with the more fascinating by the fact familiar humour attached, explains that these are creatures we see very little of in other books. The text in this book tooting is limited, as this is primarily an activity book, but what is there is surprisingly informative. Books focussing on the Triassic period for children are few and far between. This is a rare treasure for any child with more than a passing interest in dinosaurs, and an absolute must have for budding palaeontologistsperfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263052</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Wake Up Do, Lydia LouWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Julia Donaldson Justine Avery and Karen George Seema Amjad
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Julia Donaldson ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is probably best known for her collaborations with [[:Category:Axel Scheffler|Axel Scheffler]] on creations such as [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|The Gruffalo]] and [[Stick Man by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|Stick Man]]. In this book she has teamed up with illustrator, [[:Category:Karen George|Karen George]], the latest release in order to present a charming yet sleepy character, Lydia Louthe ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. Throughout this delightful This series of fun picture book, we see Lydia Lou, with her sweep books aims to take the pain out of curly brown locks, sleeping soundly potty training children and contentedly in her bed replace it with her teddysome fun. She is sleeping so soundly that it appears that nothing It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will wake her; not even the sly ghost that creeps into her room with the sole intention of making her screamtell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447209575</amazonuk>
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=The Bunny That Couldn't Be FoundWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Angela MitchellPeter Cotton|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Princess Lolly Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a little girl snake and even those of us who is in charge of lots of grown ups, which in itself is have a lovely start phobia about snakes are going to warm to any bookhim. But Princess Lolly isn’t a happy bunny because… Johnny Bunny has gone missing! He left her room just arrived as she was waking up, and she can’t find him anywhere! As anyone would be when a favourite pet has gone missing, she is present in a box with holes so, so sad! So she sets hoards that he could breathe and immediately became part of policemen on the case family, to search the kingdom extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for hima walk. They search high and low in And that was where the palace and the gardens but can’t seem to find what they’re looking forproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861087</amazonuk>
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How to Wash a Woolly MammothJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Michelle Robinson and Kate HindleyEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Some tasks are just so big and dauntingCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you don’t know where to start. Like washing a woolly mammoth. I meanBut really, it’s a big job when you think about why shouldn't it. Luckily if you be? We all have a woolly mammoth, or to learn about our bodily functions just like as we have to imagine you dolearn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, there is this booksay, a step by step guide to learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the task.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075802</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo Justine Avery and Helen StephensNaday Meldova|title=Jo-Jo The Melon DonkeyNo, No, No!|rating=54
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Jo-Jo is donkey, but he desperately wishes he were something elseThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. His is a life And nothing could be truer of hard work and little comfort. He works all day hauling melons, tormented by flies, derided by passers-by and despised by his owner. Finally he finds a friend. A kind and gentle child who looks into his sad eyes and finds beauty rather than just a shaggy old beast. The child runs out each day to buy a melon, and for a few minutes Jo-Jo knows happiness - but this is no ordinary child, this is the Doge's daughter. Sadly, the Doge does not share his daughter's ability to see the inner beauty of thingslatest from Justine Avery, scorning Jo-Jo as a lowly beast. His daughter will not give up on her friend though, and when disaster strikes Jo-Jo repays her kindness by saving all of the people of VeniceBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405263539</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Isabel's Noisy Tummy|author=David McKee|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Isabel is a very good little girl with a very naughty tummy. It burbles and rumbles and gurgles loudly at school'No, No, and her teacher No!'' is not impressed. Everyone has advice on what to do to stop it making such rude noises. Her mother tells her to eat slower, but that doesn’t work. Her father suggests exercise, her doctor medicine, but still, no joy. But, one day on a school trip, Isabel’s tummy saves based around the day, and saves her classmates. And after that, well, no one really minds a noisy tummy any moresimplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396892</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=The Pet Itch|author=Elli Woollard and Elina Ellis|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Most children want a pet at some point. Mossy Monster wants a pet itch more than anything else in the world. But his family (refreshingly consisting of a Granny''No, no, an Uncle and a sister) have all sorts of reasons why he shouldn't have one and his sister just seems to delight in tormenting him - as sisters do. But Sister comes though in the end with a crafty plan that will help Mossy get the Itch of his dreamsno! Okay, and make sure the grown ups do all the work as wellokay. There is never a dull moment in this book with temper tantrumsYes, rude rhymes and absolutely delightful illustrationsyou may. The best part of all though is the way the adults are so easily bamboozled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861079</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=ABC and Do|author=Lee Singh and Karen Wall|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Being able to recognise letters is an essential aspect of emergent literacy. I know so many parents and children who feel that being able to sing their ABCThat's is it! But, like all the same as knowing the alphabet. It isn't. A child must be able to recognise the letter formsbest picture books, in upper and lower cases, identify them by name and understand the sound or phoneme made by each. Learning this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the alphabet is something inside that most children will need some help with at home. No matter how good the school your child attends, it is impossible for a teacher to give each child appears on the individual attention required to master this subject easily, and failure to do so often leads to lifelong difficulties in literacyoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405265329</amazonuk>1638820457
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Ernest and Celestine: The PicnicFarm Shop|author=Gabrielle VincentDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Ernest, Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a large bear, walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and CelestineSam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a small mouse, have made themselves big barn with a beautiful picnicsign outside. Everything It's a farm shop! But this is packed a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and ready to go for when they get up tomorrow morningcustomers are farmyard animals. HoweverThere are sheep and ducks and cows, when morning comes it's raining very heavilygoats and chickens, and even some mice. Ernest says that unfortunately they can't have their picnic after all but poor Celestine is distraughtExcited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. Is there any way Ernest can make things up to her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471672</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Mary's Hair|author=Eoin Colfer|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Mary hates her hair. It has black bits and brown bits, curly bits and straight bits and Mary feels that it looks very much like a bush. Her Daddy says if you don't like something, you should change it (instead of whining about it to your parents when What will they want to relax with a cup of tea). Mary's Daddy, like many others, should watch what he says to children. Mary follows his advice with hilarious results. First she cuts her hair, but when that doesn't go to plan she decides to dye it. She has learned something from the whole hair cutting experience though, this time she plans to try the dye out on someone else first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122261</amazonuk>buy?
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Eleanor's EyebrowsSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Timothy Knapman Maureen Duffy and David TazzymanAnita Joice|rating=43.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Eleanor just canSadie't see the point of eyebrowss mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. They don't ''do'' anything. They just sit there, ''two silly, scruffy, hairy, little bits of fluff!'' Sadly for Eleanor, her eyebrows overhear her describing them in this way, She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and they refuse she loves to stay where they aren't wanted and so pack their bags and set off into the big world to find a place where someone will love them!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078410</amazonuk>}}spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|title=Mmm''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly.Let One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's Eat!|author=Libby Koponen|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Children often have a tendency to end up eating brown the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and white foods, not wanting to branch out into any more colourful territory for fear of the unknown of purple aubergines or blue blueberriesattendant's warning shout. This book aims to get children thinking a little bit more about When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the colours midst of foods, perhaps encouraging them to try something an adventure that she could never have imagined in a little bit out world of the ordinary one daydolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052927</amazonuk>
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Stick Man's First WordsLittle Gold Ted|author=Julia Donaldson Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Axel SchefflerSasha Satha
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Does your child roam One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the house dressed as water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the Gruffalo? side of the street. Finding himself Do you know down in the words sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''TiddlerOH HELP ME PLEASE'' off by heart? Have you read he cries and loved [[Stick Man by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|Stick Man]] as we at The Bookbag have? Wellalerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, this is one for who plucks him out of the fansdirty water using his cane, which might look just a first words book full bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of wonderful illustrations by Axel Scheffler and based on the Stick Man storybroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407137352</amazonuk>
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Squiglet PigRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Joyce Dunbar Mayuri Naidoo and Tim HopgoodCaroline Siegal
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''Squiglet Pigagain'' . The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is based on a real deep sea creature, the piglet squidshort and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. This is one of those creatures you have They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see to believeand then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. It honestly does look like So, when Remy reacts, it always smiling, looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and very much like the main character in this bookteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405257563</amazonuk>
}}
 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=WildThe Invisible|author=Emily HughesTom Percival
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=''Wild'' This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who has grown up made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the forest with only heating on: ''Ice curled across the animals to care for her, but this is where she belongs and she is happy. All inside of the animals love her window and she loves them. She learns how to speak from crept up the birds, what to eat from corner of the bears, how bedpost.'' The family didn't go to play from the foxes, cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the deer and day came when they couldn't afford the rabbit keep her company as she sleeps. She has no clothing, nor does she need it, Her long mane of unruly green hair covers rent for the important bits house and gives her they had to move to the appearance far side of something that has sprung to life from the forest itselfcity. She is creature This part of pure innocencethe city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263087</amazonuk>
}}
{{Frontpage
|author=Nick Jones and Si Clark
|title=One Night in Beartown
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary= Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, 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 bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!
|isbn=B08NFH7H9X
}}
{{newreview|title=Trumpety Trump|author=Steve Smallman and Adria Meserve|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Two subjects guaranteed Move on to have any nursery age child in stitches are bums and farts. This book has plenty of both, along with some other very rude behaviour which will have children begging to hear this again and again. Although the book reads like a non stop riot of rude and raucous behaviour, it does teach children about friendship and manners as well. Adults will appreciate the moral to the story, but children will be so busy laughing, they'll hardly notice that they are learning at the same time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121812</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]