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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How to Babysit a GrandadAdam Stower|authortitle=Jean Reagan Murray and Lee WildishBun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=It's very important Murray is supposed to know how be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to babysit your grandadsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. YouBut he's a bad magician'll need 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 know what be honest, but he's turned up and he likes to eat (Icecream topped with cookies or anything dipped in ketchup!) You'll also need have to know how to keep him entertained (somersault across the room!) In case you've ever wondered about the best ways to look after your grandad then this is the book for you!do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444915886</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=I Love You Father ChristmasThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Giles Andreae Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Emma DoddIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=This is a rather ''lovely letter to Santa'When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they' style book, told entirely re running for their lives in versethe Forest of Fine Repute. It starts off with Their greatest fear has come about: the title wordsSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won'I love you Father Christmas'' t end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and works through why vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the gentleman Tree Wee homes high up in question rocks: ''Your beard looks amazing''<br>''And yesthe tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, you’re rather fat''<br>''But you probably just like eating''<br>''And there’s nothing wrong with that''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408330229</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Fishy TalesOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Rob ScottonChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=Even cats have Kit and Teal were just beginning to go wonder whether it was better to school toobe at home, y’know? And Splat is no exceptionbored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. Today they’re going on On top of the ice was a school trip to polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the aquariumsand, though, which is the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a bit exciting if you’re a catrun for it, even if your teacher (but Teal knew that the fabulously named Mrs Wimpydimple) is very clear bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the ground rules: look with your eyes, not with your handsbus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. And absolutely no eating of the fish!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0061978523</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Wibbly Pig Picks a PetLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Mick InkpenLainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=Big Pig's sister's friend is choosing a petTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, but Wibbly and Scruffy can't wait to meet. They imagine all sorts of pets not least because she might choosemade the best beetle juice. Could it be an elephant, a polar bear or a dinosaur? They think He packed two pairs of all sorts of fun choices, while hoping she chooses anything at all except a rabbitdungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Rabbits are boring according She had promised to Wibbly and Scruffy - take him to the Friday Night Club at least until they see one. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444908219</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Toucan Can|author=Juliette MacIver the local community centre and Sarah Davis|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If you’ve ever wondered what a toucan can do, Todd was pleased about this book will tell youas he wanted to make new friends. The answer At home, in a nutshell, is EVERYTHING!. Some are typical things – dancing his only friend was his mum and singing and sliding and swinginghe wondered why that could be. Some are more random – banging a frying pan, doing the cancan Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different. But they all look like a lot of fun, and the question remains: ''can you do what Toucan can?'' I bet, I bet, I bet you can!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467537</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The Christmas CarrotToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Allan PlenderleithAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=It’s Christmas time, Elsie and there’s every reason her little brother David loved to go to be afraid, at least if you’re a carrotthe park and watch the red buses drive past. While everyone else is getting excited about Elsie would race the season, buses along the Christmas carrot is dreading it. He’s about to go under side of the knife park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and emerge as even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a side dish on bus in the family dinner table tomorrow. Gulp! Luckily Billy has other ideas, toy shop window which would help David - and seizes him was happy to use the coins from the kitchen where his dad (a nice touch…it’s not just mums who cook) had been about her money box to prepare himpay for it as cash was tight at home. Outside they go Gradually, David learned to stand up, heading use the bus for Billy’s snowman who is missing one small feature… a nose! It’s a last minute save from the chopping boardsupport, and walk behind it. Many decades later, but Elsie brought the Christmas carrot is still not happy with this career changebus, because it’snow damaged and rusted, y’knowto the Repair Shop, rather cold out here. And hoping that the experts there could make it so his adventure continuesthat her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841613754</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Wibbly Pig and the TookyThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Mick InkpenAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=I had a feeling, Susan was very young when I saw the cover of this book, that I she was going evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to enjoy ither final destination. I wasnShe needn't disappointed. Something really tickled me have worried though as I read this bookshe went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, and I who couldn't have since flicked through it again, by myself, without the kids! been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. So that's usually a good sign of a good children's picture bookGradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. Especially if I now sneak it upstairs onto She''my'' picture book bookshelf where I keep all my personal favourites from our ridiculously large collection d help Mrs Russell with the baking and I try when it came to keep sticky fingers off them Christmas Eve Susan and keep them for special reading times together!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912232</amazonuk>Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.
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{{newreview|title=Winnie's Pirate Adventure|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We like Winnie the Witch stories in our house. We have a whole bag full of them, and have read them many times over, so when my daughter saw this new one she was very excited. Sadly, it didn't quite live up to our (admittedly high) expectations. This new story sees Winnie head off on a pirate adventure which should, you would think, have the makings of an excellent story.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736019</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1916459943|title=Ding Dong GorillaSqueakily Baby|author=Michelle Robinson and Leonie LordBeth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=We never learn the name of the main character in Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''Ding Dong Gorillawails''. This book is told in The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the first personwaves sing ''hush, from the point of view hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a very young child sandy beach and addressed to his parentyou have the sound perfectly. This works quite well The mermaids join in this story- ''la lou, because most children will be able to identify very easily with the protagonist and most parents will identify with the unseen mother whom this story is directed tola lay... The story begins with '' And for a sheepish looking wee boy reminding moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his mother how they had ordered a huge pizzaeyes. Unfortunately, he has Then a bit of bad news seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to break firsthappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408312018</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Rosie Revere, EngineerA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Andrea Beaty and David RobertsBriony May Smith
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|summary=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts make a great team. Their previous book, Philippa Pheasant was ''Iggy Peck, Architect'', is a best seller and has a lot in common with ''Rosie Revere, Engineertired''of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Both stories offer hope and encouragement She wrote to children who feel at odds and left out of the mainstreammayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Rosie is very shy and cannot bring herself Philippa wasn't a bird to join in sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the schoolcrossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. But at home she sparkles Her uniform and comes lollipop stick were both a little amateur to life while building inventive gadgets from odds and ends, often using things rescued from start with but the binbenefits were obvious. When her favourite uncle laughs at one of her contraptions (made especially for him), Rosie is mortified All the animals used the crossing and it takes the exuberant help of another relative Hedgehog was even trained up to bring her back out of her shellprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419708457</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Lollipop and Grandpa and the Christmas BabyLeilong's Too Long!|author=Penelope Harper Julia Liu and Cate JamesBei Lynn|rating=3.54
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|summary=Lollipop’s mum has just made an announcementEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. She started off sneakily by asking Lollipop and her brother James how they’d feel about welcoming another brother or sister Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the familywindow and slide down his neck. It's perfect, but Lollipop isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is not stupida problem, though. She knows it’s not really Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up for debate. It’s already a done deal The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912274</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Pigeon Pie, Oh My!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=Debbie Singleton and Kristyna LittenDavid Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=This tale is I love a gently humorous picture good board book gem from Debbie Singleton and illustrator Kristyna Litten. ! Farmer Budd goes about his daily work, feeding animals and repairing the old scarecrow. But when he sets off to ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market he forgets to close the gate…..leaving the way open : it's for the goat child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to cause havochave realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Down tumbles We have the scarecrow elephant who dons a tutu - and in come the pigeons with their beady eyes set on the corn cropbecomes a ''balletphant''. Tiny chick cleverly stops their plan in The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a way that may remind some young readers of hair drier becomes a certain mouse in Julia Donaldson’s [[''fluffalo''. The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The Gruffalo]]pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192734148</amazonuk>.'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Upside Down BabiesCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Jeanne Willis and Adrian ReynoldsEd Boxall|rating=54
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|summary=Upside Down Babies is not about flipping little ones over and getting them 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 headstands before they can walk (though, seriously, the earlier you start so the better). No, it’s even more trips out were always so much fun than that. The Earth has flipped! The sky is no longer blue – it’s brown like the ground instead. And the ground is brown like the sky used A young boy was going to be. Uh oh! Everything and everyone has gone tumbling, from the animals in the pictures to the text on the page. And while what goes up must come downcarnival with his Grandad, it might not come down in the place it should. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395330</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=BarbapapaOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Annette Tison and Talus TaylorCordellya Smith|rating=54
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|summary=Bibliophiles over When the age of 40 may have fond memories of a certain shape-shifting character by world was made, the name of Barbapapa who appeared in animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a series of children's books back in the 1970’sprotector. The books were originally written in French, but gained popularity and were eventually translated into 30 languages Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Barbapapa also Owl had his own TV series and comic book and his name, literally translated, means excellent sight so that he could see the present ''candy flossand''the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. The books are now enjoying He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a resurgence in popularity now race with Turtle. You might think that the original stories have been reprinted in English for 's not a new generation to enjoyfair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408330717</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hugless Douglas Finds A HugRob Keeley|authortitle=David MellingCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=The fun in ''Hugless Douglas Finds A Hug'' jumps out 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 youand how nice to eat. LiterallyOne day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. In Infuriated, Lily checks with the form of a Douglas puppet teacher, who arrives poking his head through the centre of the book. He pops up explains that fruits grow on every page of the storytrees and vegetables, sporting his red scarf and his slightly dopey looklike carrots, and as his body seems to grow with every page that’s turned, you just know there’s something special waiting for you on in the last pageground. Can you guess what it is? Hint: the clue’s in the titleJordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444912674</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=Poppy CatYou Can's Counting Adventuret Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Lara JonesJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
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|summary=Just how much can you pack in one short book? That’s the question you’ll be asking when you pick up ''Poppy Cat’s Counting Adventure''. How about: rhyme (check)For the big, flaps to lift (check)grownup girls out there, holes to peep through (check)the potty masters in training, bright colours, happy characters and "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a fun, educational aspect cry (check, check, checkthe big-girl kind!)of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride. This book really has it all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023075404X</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=Breaking the Spell: Stories of Magic Justine Avery and Mystery from ScotlandNaday Meldova|authortitle=Lari Don and Cate JamesEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=I love folk tales and fairy tales and have a vast collection from many countries and culturesToots, trumps, farts. Finding ones from Britain however is surprisingly difficult. I must have at least ten Asian folktales Whatever your word for every British one I ownthem, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Of course we love learning Funny to talk about and joke about other cultures, but children should learn about their own heritage as wellthat is. While we live in Northern Ireland, But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the cultures of Northern Ireland and Scotland have intertwined from the first human settlements in Scotlandwrong time. In fact I would argue very strenuously that one of these stories is Northern Irishclass, originating in the Tain Bo Cuailnge, but in fact, many of these stories are told in more than one placesay, when everyone will hear it and I do feel that the stories of Scotland reflect a part of our heritage as welleveryone will laugh. Whether At you live . Justine Avery's latest entry in Scotlandher ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, or simply have an interest in with the heritage of this countryfamiliar humour attached, this book would make an excellent addition to a childexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''s book shelf, and should be required reading within the Scottish schools.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847803423</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Best Word Book EverWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Richard ScarryJustine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=''RichardWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the 's Scarry's Best Word Book EverEverybody Potties!'' was first published in 1963series from Justine Avery. Over the years it has had a few minor revamps. Some adults have applauded these as improvements This series of fun picture books aims to take the original, and others have bemoaned the changes as pandering to political correctness. I for one like the inclusion pain out of female characters in traditionally male jobs potty training children and, knowing the actual definition of squaw, I am more than happy to see replace it removedwith some fun. Most of all I appreciate the inclusion of Hanukkah and It's a menorah under ''Holidays''worthy aim, as I believe this any frustrated parent will keep some children from feeling that their culture is left outtell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007507097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Alexander When Fred the Snake Got Squished and the Wind Up MouseMended|author=Leo LionniPeter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=When I saw Leo Lionni's name on this bookMeet Fred. Well, actually, I couldnyou't snatch it up re going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly enough. Leo Lionni began writing childrenBut I's books in the early 60m getting ahead of myself: I's and many of his were childhood favourites of mined better tell you a bit more about Fred. After having spent Fred is a fortune tracking down two out snake and even those of print books of his, I am overjoyed us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to find one of his wonderful books is once again in printhim. Lionni had perfectly captured the magic He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of collage style illustrations years before Eric Carle came onto the scene, and has such beautiful, timeless stories. His stories are always fun and entertainingfamily, but they carry messages of hope and kindness as well. They seem to have captured all the yearning extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for peace of the era in which they were written, and the very best of human emotions without every being preachy or tweea walk. In my opinion Lionni And that was one of where the best childrenproblem started. Fred didn's authors of all timet have any road sense. He wrote books that fed the soul Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397058</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rindert Kromhout Justine Avery and Annemarie van HaeringenNaday Meldova|title=Eat Up, Little DonkeyEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Little Donkey wonCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't eat his lunch, as any parent will tell you. He But really, really doesnwhy shouldn't want it be? We all have to eat at alllearn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. SoWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, without a fuss Mama Donkey packs him into learning about why the pushchair sun and off they go to the park. I wonder what she has moon take turns in mindthe sky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579335</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=It's Not YoursNo, No, It's MineNo!|author=Susanna Moores
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|summary=Presents They say the best picture books are always special but Blieka’s new present is extra specialthe simplest ones. It is And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a lovely red ball and Blieka is sure that it is most definitely not for sharingBookbag favourite. This ball belongs to Blieka and no-one else ''No, No, No! Time passes and '' is based around the lovely red ball is not quite so lovely anymoresimplest text imaginable. Blieka needs help but what can Blieka do now? Will Blieka’s friends be prepared to come to the rescue? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846435951</amazonuk>}}''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=We Love You, Hugless DouglasThe Farm Shop|author=David MellingDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=We first met [[Hugless Douglas by David Melling|Douglas]] when he was simply a bear wanting a hug. Since then he’s [[Hugless Douglas Kirelle and her best friend Sam the Big Sleep by David Melling|been cat decide to go for a sleepover ]] walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and had a few little issues Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in [[Don't Worry Douglas by David Melling|Don't Worry, Douglas]]his smart grey fur coat. Now he’s returning back As they walk to his original sort the top of set up. This timethe hill, instead of they see a big barn with a hug, he’s after someone to call his best friendsign outside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444908308</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Things You Never Knew About Dinosaurs|author=Giles Paley-Phillips It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and Liz Pichon|rating=4customers are farmyard animals.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The idea of a dinosaur on a trampoline or playing football is just plain sillyThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. After allExcited, everyone knows dinosaurs died out yonks ago…didn’t they?Kirelle and Sam go shopping.
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|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Animal NoisesLittle Gold Ted|author=Nicola KillenVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=Sometimes One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a picture book comes along that deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is so beautiful, it’s almost wasted sucked down a drain on slobberingthe side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, grubby-fingered toddlers. This is one such bookTed starts to panic. ''Animal NoisesOH HELP ME PLEASE'' is one he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the prettiest board books I’ve ever seendirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. It Reg is a lift-the-flap book kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of, you’ve guess it, sounds made by animalsbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405262877</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Just Right for TwoRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Tracey Corderoy Mayuri Naidoo and Rosalind BeardshawCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=When we first meet Dog he Remy is rushing joyfully through the woods clutching a bigfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, blue suitcase festooned together with stickers from his travels. In this suitcase sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has put all the treasures he has collected small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and he is sure then push him just that these little bit further when the other kids are all around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he needs to make him happywas the instigator. But And then one morning Dog meets someone. That someone is Mouse he gets into trouble at school and it is through meeting Mouse that everything changes for Dogthe teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631764</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Ten Little PiratesThe Invisible|author=Mike Brownlow and Simon RickertyTom Percival
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|summary=''Ten This is the story of Isobel, a little piratesgirl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, sailing out because her parents couldn't afford to sea,''<br>put the heating on: ''Looking for adventure, happy as can beIce curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.''<br>''Are they hunting treasure? Are they going far?''<br>''Ten little pirates all say, 'Arrrrrrr!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408320037</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mixed Up Nursery RhymesNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Hilary Robinson and Liz PichonOne Night in Beartown|rating=54
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|summary=Many children have a great fondness for traditional nursery rhymes an obsession and it doesN't take long for them to know them so well that they can join Sandy Lane, who lives in as you are reading to themBeartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. They know that Old Mother Hubbard went Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the cupboard and that Dr Foster went bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Gloucester. HoweverBee Bear, what fun it might be to sometimes mix up these tales so a colourful painted bear that the rhymes become lives at her school. She even stranger and funnier than the originals.has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444904647</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}