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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Animal NoisesAdam Stower|authortitle=Nicola KillenMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Sometimes Murray is supposed to be a picture book comes along that is so beautifulhumble, it’s almost wasted on slobberingtidy and friendly cat, grubby-fingered toddlers. This is one such book. ''Animal Noises'' who is one able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the prettiest board books I’ve ever seentwo. It is But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a lift-hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the-flap book catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world offrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, you’ve guess itone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, sounds made by animals.but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405262877</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Just Right for TwoThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Tracey Corderoy Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Rosalind BeardshawIndre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=When we first meet Dog he 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 rushing joyfully through the woods clutching a bigchasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, blue suitcase festooned with stickers sour milk from his travelsnostrils. In (Please don't try this suitcase he has put all the treasures he has collected at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and he is sure that these are all he needs vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to make him happy. But then one morning Dog meets someone. That someone is Mouse the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and it is through meeting Mouse that everything changes for DogGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631764</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Ten Little PiratesOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Mike Brownlow Chris Green and Simon RickertyJenny Fionda
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|summary=''Ten little piratesKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, sailing out to seaor frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand,''<br>''Looking the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for adventureit, happy as can but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to betaken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep.''<br>''Are they hunting treasure? Are they going far What else would you do?''<br>''Ten little pirates all say, 'Arrrrrrr!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408320037</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Little Ghost1913839656|author=Otfried Preussler and Anthea Bell|rating=5|genretitle=Confident Readers|summary=I have to admit I was slightly prejudiced about this book. The Little Ghost immediately brought back memories of Robert BrightLet's ''Georgie '' which I had cherished as a child. Like Georgie, Little Ghost is a wonderful friendly character, if you are looking for a fright, this book will not be at all suitable. But if you jut want a feel good adventure for younger readers, this book is just the thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397716</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Mixed Up Nursery RhymesCelebrate Being Different|author=Hilary Robinson and Liz PichonLainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Little Mouse's Big Book of BeastsThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Emily GravettAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|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 cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a true 3D feel that truly popsbus 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. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and when you open walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the animals jump out at you. Literallyexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745385</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Dixie O'Day in the Fast Lane1529504767|author=Shirley Hughes and Clara Vulliamy|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summarytitle=The first collaboration by award winning children’s author [[:Category:Shirley Hughes|Shirley Hughes]] and her illustrator/author daughter [[:Category:Clara Vulliamy|Clara Vulliamy]] has been eagerly anticipated for some time and this gorgeous little book more than meets expectations. In the first of a new series we meet Dixie, a car-loving dog who is always ready for adventure and Percy his smaller and slightly more cautious friend. Together the two chums enter an all-day race in Dixie’s car and are determined that they will win first prize. However, first they discover 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 heroes. Can Dixie save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782300120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Jump!Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Carol ThompsonAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Boris Gets SpotsSqueakily Baby|author=Carrie Weston and Tim WarnesBeth Webb
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=SnowflakesA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Cerrie Burnell and Laura Ellen AndersonBriony May Smith|rating=24.5
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Something DeliciousLeilong's Too Long!|author=Jill Lewis Julia Liu and Ali PyeBei Lynn
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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 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>
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{{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
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|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!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Momo and Snap are not FriendsCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Airlie Anderson Ed Boxall|rating=54
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|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They''La la la!''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:
''Tum ti tum!It'll be brilliant, just remember, don' t let go of my hand.''Eek!'' ''Ack!'' Y’know?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846435986</amazonuk>
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{{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
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon Lycett-SmithRob Keeley|title=MooCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees! Said Morris|rating=4.5
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|summary=There was a little mouse called Morris Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and he was a very unusual mousehow nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Whilst all Infuriated, Lily checks with the other mice said ''Squeak''teacher, Morris said: ''MOO!'' who explains that fruits grow on trees and ''HONKvegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!'' " and ''NEIGH!''everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909428175</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=Pittipat's Saucer of MoonJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Geraldine McCaughrean and Maria NilssonEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Pittipat 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 little black kitten 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|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is off the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the moonpain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, brave as any frustrated parent will tell you. .}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and fearlessMended|author=Peter Cotton|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for hereasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I's heard that the moon d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a saucer snake and even those of cream and he thinks that his brothers and sisters us who have gone up there without a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him to drink it all up! . Off He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he sets could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to chase after the extent that they would take Fred out with them, determined to get his own lick of when they went out for a walk. And that was where the cream!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904663</amazonuk>problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ruff Justine Avery and the Wonderfully Amazing Busy DayNaday Meldova|authortitle=Caroline Jayne ChurchEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Ruff, a rather sweet little dog, is a happy fellow. He pootles aboutCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, busy all day long and singing little songs to himself as he worksany parent will tell you. But sometimes he wonders what really, why shouldn't it would be like ? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have someone to learn about everything else to sing with himwhen we are small. Busy making himself a new pond in the garden one day he discovers a small mouse who appears to Why shouldn't potty training be rather cross as much fun as, say, learning about someone digging up his home...oh dear, Ruff! Can he help why the sun and the little mouse to find a new home to live moon take turns inthe sky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007483570</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Day The Crayons QuitJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Drew Daywalt and Oliver JeffersNo, No, No!
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|summary=Duncan loves colouring but one day he receives a very surprising stack of letters from his crayons. Some are quite content, but others are really getting fed up. Red and Blue want a break, they get used far too much and They say the best picture books are nearly worn away. Purple is delighted to be the colour of the wizards and dragons, but he is rather fussy about staying inside the linessimplest ones. Black wants to colour in fun things like beach balls, and yellow and orange can't stop quarrelling over which should And nothing could be the colour truer of the sun. Peach has had her wrapper peeled off and won't come out at all now, as she is embarrassed about being naked. Pink however is the most upset all. Duncan has never used Pink once. Pink wants to be something funthis latest from Justine Avery, like a dinosaurBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513755</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=How to Wash a Woolly MammothThe Farm Shop|author=Michelle Robinson Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Kate HindleyEma Tepic|rating=4.5
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|summary=Some tasks are just so big Kirelle and daunting, you don’t know where her best friend Sam the cat decide to startgo for a walk. Like washing a woolly mammothKirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. I meanAs they walk to the top of the hill, it’s they see a big job when you think about itbarn with a sign outside. Luckily if you have It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a woolly mammothdifference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, or just like to imagine you dogoats and chickens, there is this bookand even some mice. Excited, a step by step guide to the taskKirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075802</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Isabel's Noisy TummySadie and the Sea Dogs|author=David McKeeMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=Isabel is Sadie's mother always said that she was a very good little girl with a very naughty tummy. It burbles and rumbles and gurgles loudly at schooldreamer, and her teacher is not impressed. Everyone has advice mind never on what to do to stop it making such rude noisesshe should be doing. 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 She lives by the day, River Thames at Greenwich and saves her classmates. And after that, well, no one really minds a noisy tummy any moreshe loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396892</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=ABC and DoLittle Gold Ted|author=Lee Singh Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Karen WallSasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=Being able to recognise letters is an essential aspect of emergent literacyOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. I know so many parents and children who feel that being able to sing their ABCIt's quite a deep puddle and the water is the same as knowing the alphabetswirling. It isn't. A child must be able Poor Ted starts to recognise the letter forms, in upper spin around and lower cases, identify them by name around and understand is sucked down a drain on the sound or phoneme made by each. Learning side of the alphabet is something that most children will need some help with at homestreet. No matter how good Finding himself down in the school your child attendssewer, it is impossible for a teacher Ted starts to give each child panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the individual attention required to master this subject easilyof Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and failure to do so often leads to lifelong difficulties in literacywarms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405265329</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Ernest and CelestineRemy: The PicnicA book about believing in yourself|author=Gabrielle VincentMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Ernest, a large bearRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and CelestineBrandon, a small mousehave been laughing at Remy, have made themselves a beautiful picnic. Everything calling him names because he is packed short and ready has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to go for wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when they get up tomorrow morningthe other kids are around. HoweverSo, when morning comes Remy reacts, it's raining very heavilylooks as though he was the instigator. Ernest says that unfortunately they canAnd then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't have their picnic after all but poor Celestine is distraughtbelieve him when he tries to explain what happened. Is there any way Ernest can make things up to her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471672</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Mary's HairThe Invisible|author=Eoin ColferTom Percival
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyFor Sharing|summary=Mary hates her hair. It has black bits and brown bitsThis is the story of Isobel, 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 they want to relax with little girl who made a cup of tea)big difference. Mary's Daddy, like many others, should watch what he says to children. Mary follows his advice Isobel lived with hilarious results. First she cuts her hairparents in a house - a very cold house, but when that doesnbecause her parents couldn't go to plan she decides afford to dye it. She has learned something from put the whole hair cutting experience though, this time she plans to try the dye out heating on someone else first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122261</amazonuk>}}:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stick Man's First WordsNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Julia Donaldson and Axel SchefflerOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Does your child roam the house dressed as the Gruffalo? Do you know the words to ''Tiddler'' off by heart? Have you read Many children have an obsession and loved [[Stick Man by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|Stick Man]] as we at The Bookbag have? WellSandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, this is one for the fansobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a first words book full teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of wonderful illustrations by Axel Scheffler her bedroom window and based on says goodnight to the Stick Man storybear 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!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407137352</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}