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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Max and the Won't Go To Bed ShowAdam Stower|authortitle=Mark Sperring Murray and Sarah WarburtonBun
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|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…
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|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon
|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
|rating=4
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|summary=Prepare to unleash your inner Barnum with ‘Max When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Won’t Go To Bed Show’Forest of Fine Repute. You don’t read Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this book – you perform at home: itwon't end well. So) Fortunately, what’s it all about? Wellthey were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, if you give me a drum roll (PLEASE!) … I will tell youNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007468393</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=A Deal's a DealOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Stephanie BlakeChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=There is always that stageKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, with childrenbored but warm, where they always seem to want whatever someone else has gotor 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. I think it lasts until they are, wellAs the ice bumped onto the sand, about thirty seven?! Here we see the beginnings of envy bear woke and with Simonwobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, our little rabbit friend from [[Stupid Baby by Stephanie Blake|Stupid Baby]]but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He's off obviously needed to play with his friend Ferdinand, be taken home on the bus and he takes along three cars - given a yellow car, a green car good meal and a blue carsomewhere to sleep. But then, of course, Ferdinand has a red car...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579831</amazonuk>What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=ItLet's Time to Say GoodnightCelebrate Being Different|author=Harriet Ziefert and BarrouxLainey Dee
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|summary=When a little boy wakes up happy 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 decides his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to say 'Good morning' show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to everything he sees he probably doesn't realise the task Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he has set himselfwanted to make new friends. IndeedAt home, after saying 'Good morning' to twenty-plus things around him his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it seems it's now time to say 'Good night'!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053745</amazonuk>might be because he looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Alphaprints ABCThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Jo Ryan Amy Sparkes and Sarah PowellKatie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=A is for Alternative. B is for BrightElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. C is for Charming. D for Delight. Well, that’s my opinion Elsie would race the buses along the side of the alphabet board book park but David couldn't - he'Alphaprints ABC'' – take it from me, the actual rhymes are better!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849159424</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Asterix d been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the Picts|author=Jeantoy shop window which would help David -Yves Ferri, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo and Didier Conrad|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I've never been entirely certain if Asterix was written happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for children or adultsit as cash was tight at home. I am quite certain children were Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the original target audiencebus for support, but and walk behind it is equally apparent that many of . Many decades later, Elsie brought the jokes are thrown in for adults as well. It does seem as if more adults are buying Asterix than children bus, now, damaged and comics in general have been taken over by the adult consumerrusted, but Asterix still has plenty to offer the younger reader as well. If it is perhaps a bit more sophisticated than the average children's book todayRepair Shop, all hoping that the better. I'm all for children's books experts there could make it so that are light and easy to read, but I think we are doing our children a disservice by filtering out any book her grandchildren could play with a more complex vocabulary or a fair number of unfamiliar wordsit. My children did find a few words like ''solidarity'', ''fraternise'' and ''diaphanous'' challenging, but if we don't challenge them at all - how will they learn?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011677</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Snow QueenChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Hans Christian Andersen Amy Sparkes and P J Lynch (Illustrator)Katie Hickey
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|summary=Determined heroine Gerda has a series 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 the home of adventures on Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her journey own room - all to find her friend Kay after he has been spirited away by the Snow Queen herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to live in enjoy her palace of icelife. She'The Snow Queen' is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s less disturbing fables d help Mrs Russell with a message about the power of love baking and true friendship. No heart wrenching deaths like 'The Little Match Girl', no tortured longing like 'The Little Mermaid', when it has came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the benefit of a happy endingChristmas tree. And, in contrast to so many traditional tales where the hero is usually male, its star is a lively girl who rescues her friend against all The best surprise happened the oddsfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709011</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=While He Was SleepingSqueakily Baby|author=Ayano ImaiBeth Webb
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|summary=Who needs friends when you have a fine smart hat? Not Mr BrownMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a bear with a strong sense of style but a lack of companionssqueakily baby. He 's so tired but he can please himself. So 't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he does, until a determined woodpecker decides that Mr Brown’s hat is prime real estate to house him just lies on his blanket and a flock of his feathered friends''wails''. Mr Brown quickly grows The sea offers to like his new tenantshelp. His hat attracts imitators however It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the birds choose only himsound perfectly. When winter comes The mermaids join in - ''la lou, the birds depart la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and Mr Brown goes in we know exactly what's going to hibernationhappen next. Will he hear their singing again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881595584</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Song of the Golden HareA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Jackie MorrisBriony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=If you buy one picture book this year, make it this onePhilippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Not because it’s She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a good story, or because you know reply. Philippa wasn't a child who would love it (both sound reasons), but because it is also bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a stunning work problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of artthe lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. The pictures are full of carefully observed wildlife Her uniform and glorious colourslollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. Every inch adds to All the telling of animals used the talecrossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804500</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=A Mammoth in the FridgeLeilong's Too Long!|author=Michael Escoffier Julia Liu and Matthieu MaudetBei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=One dayEvery morning Leilong, Noah opens the fridge 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 finds that there slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a mammoth inside! problem, though. His dad tells him not Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be silly, but when careful about where he puts his feet and mum open the fridge – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to check there, indeed, is a very large mammoth, squashed and traffic regularly gets snarled up inside! . Whatever will they do to get him out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579157</amazonuk>The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=A Treasury of Fairy TalesBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Helen CresswellDavid Elliott
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|summary=Once upon I love a time, in good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a village not so far awayniche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, a mother see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and her son received a parcel. In that parcel was ‘A Treasury of Fairy Tales’, kindly sent by the publisher Harper Collinsmake something quite different from each one. They curled up on We have the sofa elephant who dons a tutu - and started to read… would they be enchanted?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007546513</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Octopusbecomes a ''balletphant''s Garden|author=Ringo Starr . The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and Ben Cort|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is then dries off with a beautifully illustrated book which takes the readers into hair drier becomes a lovely world of fantasy. There is no story to speak of. The text of this book consists only of the lyrics to The Beatles song ''Octopusfluffalo''s. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a '' crynoceros''Garden(think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a '' from their 1969 album - Abbey Roadsm..... I loved this song as a very young child, and I always felt this was written for children, at least on some level. I used to close my eyes listen to the words as I pictured the Octopus and his enchanted garden. It is the only song'' OK, to my knowledge written solely by Ringo, and the last song which featured Ringo as the lead vocalist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120074</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=ChristmasCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Dick BrunaEd Boxall
|rating=4
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|summary=Dick Bruna’s picture book ‘Christmas’ tells It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the story of good that parents do, so the nativity in his own inimitable mannertrips out were always so much fun. Drawn in A young boy was going to the carnival with his archetypal Miffy styleGrandad, this tale sweetly captures the spirit and meaning of the season.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121127</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Red SledgeOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Lita JudgeCordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=In When the middle of world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a snowy winterstrong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, a child leaves his red sledge leaning against not the wall of his house overnightability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. Little does He was also jealous which was how he know came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that the woodland creatures have their eye on 's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it for some midnight funcame about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397937</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Barbapapa's VoyageRob Keeley|authortitle=Annette Tison and Talus TaylorCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=In [[Barbapapa by Annette Tison Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and Talus Taylor|Barbapapa]]aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, we were introduced Lily is keen to a friendlyexplain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, pinkpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, shape-shifting blob who used his special talents to help tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the local townsfolkteacher, who hailed him as explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the new town heroground. HoweverJordan says, despite having lots of human friends"I did try to tell her, our pink protagonist is looking decidedly off-colour Miss!" and everyone laughs at the beginning of this sequel. It seems that being the only one of your species is a pretty lonely affair and poor Barbapapa is longing for a ''Barbamama'' to share his life withLily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408330725</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=I Love You TooCan't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Michael ForemanJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
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|summary=It’s bedtime and you know what that means. Little Bear is tucked up cozy in bed and Dad’s just finishing reading his story. It’s time to sleep… or is it? Little Bear seems a bit too awake and every time Dad makes a move to go, Little Bear tells him how much he loves him. And it’s ''A Lot''. He loves him more than all For the toysbig, grownup girls out there, more than all the birds in the trees and the stars potty masters in the sky. More than… welltraining, you get "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the picture. It’s very sweet, but it is bedtime big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and, you know, Dad’s looking rather tired himselfpersevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397651</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 Bear in the BookJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Kate Banks and Georg Hallensleben Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=Readers of my reviews may be aware Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that I am quite partial doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to stories talk about and joke about bears, that is. I jumped But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the chance to read this onewrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. It has 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 wonderful picture of a smiling black bear on the cover after all - who could resist?tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849397619</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Beauty and the BeastWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Ursula Jones Justine Avery and Sarah GibbSeema Amjad
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|summary=We do love a good fairytale ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in our housethe ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. As soon as this one arrived it was snaffled by my daughter and she burrowed herself away on the sofa This series of fun picture books aims to read it quietly on her own. Everyone knows take the story pain out of Beauty potty training children and the Beastreplace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. This version is reasonably traditional, with a few quirks of humour thrown in through the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408312727</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Z is for MooseWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Kelly L Bingham and Paul O ZelinskyPeter Cotton
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|summary=HeMeet Fred. Well, actually, you's sitting contently on the third pagere going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But who’s I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that over on he could breathe and immediately became part of the next one – Moose? ''D'' isn’t for ''Moose''! It’s for duckfamily, but to the poor little quackers have been pushed off extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the stage by the exuberant elkproblem started. Fred didn''No'', says Zebrat have any road sense. ''You’re'' ''on'' ''the'' ''wrong'' ''page'', he tells Moose Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397813</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sad Story of Veronica Who Played The ViolinJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=David McKeeEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=When I singCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, people cry. And not in a good wayas any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when Veronica plays the violin, the tears we are good tearssmall. She ''moves'Why shouldn' peoplet potty training be as much fun as, y’know? It’s a big deal for Veronica, because when she started playing, she kind of sucked. But now she’s gotten good. Very good. So very goodsay, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in fact, that like an X Factor contestant, she’s dropping out of school to become a star.the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849397635</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Christmas StoryJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Brian WildsmithNo, No, No!
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|summary=''A Christmas Story'' starts with a birth in a stable. Not They say the arrival of best picture books are the baby Jesus, but the birth of a donkeysimplest ones. Like most young creatures, the little donkey wants to And nothing could be near to his mother. So when she leaves the stable to carry her owner on a journey to Bethlehem her baby misses her. With help truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a young girl, Rebecca, the little donkey manages to follow the family to Bethlehem and all the events of the nativity are seen through their eyesBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736264</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Doug the Bug That Went BOINGThe Farm Shop|author=Sue HendraDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Ever found an insect in your attic or an arachnid on your roof Kirelle and wondered how DID they get there? Doug her best friend Sam the Bug ccat decide to go for a walk.ould tell you Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and you can find Sam is perfectly turned out too as ever in Sue Hendra’s picture bookhis smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, ‘Doug they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the Bug That Went BOING!’stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074466</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs
|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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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.
''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=How the Meteorite Got to the MuseumLittle Gold Ted|author=Jessie HartlandVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=This One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a cumulative tale drain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in which one small event sets off a chain of other events which are repeated throughout the storysewer, Ted starts to panic. If your child loves books like ''This is the House That Jack BuiltOH HELP ME PLEASE''he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, this may prove which might look just a very useful addition to you home library, but this bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a type kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of story telling which I have found some children really take to, and others do notbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052528</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Scribbles and Ink, the ContestRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Ethan LongMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Scribbles the Cat Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and Ink the Mouse has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are nowhere near careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the average cartoon cat and mouse – for one thing they other kids are good buddiesaround. So, who like nothing more than lounging aroundwhen Remy reacts, or being creative with art suppliesit looks as though he was the instigator. When Ink finds a contest And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to win an adventure holiday by drawing dinosaurs, they both have a go – with unexpected results…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053516</amazonuk>explain what happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=You Make Me SmileThe Invisible|author=Layn MarlowTom Percival
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|summary=SnowThis is the story of Isobel, at least for us a little girl who 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 UK, isn’t an everyday occurrence, and for children, unbothered by traffic chaos and school closures and boilers heating on the brink of a breakdown, it can be rather magical. This book is about that magic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192794736</amazonuk>}}:
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{{newreview|title=EnormouseFrontpage|author=Angie Morgan|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Enormouse isn’t quite like the other mice. He’s big. Really big. And while his great size can be a useful thing (he can reach into high cupboards when they’re foraging, he can carry more cheese), that doesn’t stop the others laughing at him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804489</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNick Jones and Si Clark|title=Miss Dorothy-Jane Was Ever So Vain|author=Julie Fulton and Jona JungOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Miss Dorothy-Jane Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is very much obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her appearancegrandmother. Every night, so when she sees there’s a competition to find Hamilton Shady’s best lady she just has to enter! She spends ever such a long time perfecting looks out of her look but on the way bedroom window and says goodnight to the contest, disaster strikesbear statue outside. Will Every morning she realise that there’s more says hello to life than looksBee Bear, and sacrifice a colourful painted bear that lives at her chance to win a meet and greet with the Queen (yes, school. She even has bears on her Majestybedroom wallpaper!)? Can she do the right thing, even if she gets all dirty and dishevelled in the process? I’m sure you can guess the outcome, but the final ending was a surprise, even for me. A nice surprise, I should add.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848861060</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}