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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Old Possum's Book of Practical CatsAdam Stower|authortitle=T S Eliot Murray and Rebecca Ashdown (Illustrator)Bun
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers |summary=It has always struck me 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 very definition of disappointment to think youtwo. But he're going to study Eliots a bad magician's poetry at college or universitycat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, only to find it is some errant dross like 'The Four Quartets'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. His book of Cats poems This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is in the strictest of verseexpected – well, it's bursting with levityone much bigger than Murray was, it's surely great fun to share – whatbe honest, but he's not to prefer here? If I were you, Iturned up and he'd just ignore what kind of show these pages once inspired, and turn or return ll have to them, Prufrock be damned.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571311865</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Serious Sas The Adventures of Birpus and Messy MagdaBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Marianne de Pierres Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Rachel Annie BridgenIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=ParenthoodWhen 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. Isn’t He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it great? Setting an examplewon't end well. Forming young minds) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. Embarrassing your kids. Whether it’s Dad dancing or Mum singing They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in publicthe tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, most parents do one thing that makes their child cringeNester Nook and Granny Cranny. Pity then poor Sas whose Mum is messy Magda}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a woman 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, the bear woke and with more than wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one odd habitapple and then another.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909423041</amazonuk> He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Zoom Zoom ZoomLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Katherina ManolessouLainey Dee
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|summary=Monkey 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 Bird aren’t tiredthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. They don’t want She had promised to take him to sleep. They want an adventure! And so leaving the birds sleeping in Friday Night Club at the treeslocal community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, they set off to the moonhis only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230763782</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Squishy McFluff: the Invisible Cat!The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Pip JonesAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=34.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=Meet AvaElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. SheElsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn's t - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a girl of great imagination bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and a big heartwas happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, who brings an invisible cat home David learned to mum one daystand up, use the bus for support, who humours Ava by feeding and walk behind it invisible food and letting the two bond. But when mess gets madeMany decades later, and mistakes about Elsie brought the house happenbus, Ava declares innocencenow damaged and rusted, and blames it all on to the cat – and you'd be surprised how many accidents can be Repair Shop, hoping that the result of having an invisible kitten indoors…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302505</amazonuk>experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Best Counting Book EverThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Richard ScarryAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=There are a number of things I like Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about this bookhow she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. One is She needn't have worried though as she went to the illustrations which are reminiscent home of the Richard Scarry books of my youthMr and Mrs Russell, not surprising since this is a reissue of a book that first hit 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 the shelves in 1975. They are bright baking and colourful, but simple too when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the restrained plain colour pallet is refreshing in a world of patterns and glitterfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531141</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=A Book is a BookSqueakily Baby|author=Jenny Bornholdt and Sarah WilkinsBeth Webb
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|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=YesMuch as mothers love their babies, children – adults lie to you. Sometimes, even in the titles of the books there's something they make for you, like this oneall dread - a squeakily baby. A book is a door, itHe's great for boredom, itso tired but he can't - or won's fine for time up a treet - go to sleep: instead, or in the bath (he just not the shower)lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It can be borrowedrocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, and then lent if ithush''s . Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a great one sandy beach and you enjoyedhave the sound perfectly. ItThe mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...''s certainly never the case that And for a book is just a book, moment it seems to have worked as the title of this Baby closes his eyes. book would have you believeThen a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579920</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=I am Cat (mini edition)|author=Jackie Morris|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=You're always supposed to tell when a dog is dreaming – the twitching limbs and jerking joints allegedly proving the sleeping Fido is imagining himself on the chase. Cats are, as always, a bit more secretive, but [[:Category:Jackie Morris|Jackie Morris]] offers evidence here that they are more or less thinking the same thing – even the domestic moggy, curled up and closed in, is picturing a different self – one sleeking through snows, relaxing on the savannah or alertly moving through its territory. It's a very pleasant view into the mindset of cats.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805078</amazonuk>}} {{newreview140639131X|title=Choosing CrumbleA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross (Illustrator)Briony May Smith
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|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Terri- Lee wants Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a dogreply. She is positive that Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a dog will be problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the perfect pet for her school crossing and will settle for nothing elsedecided that she would set up something similar herself. When Terri-Lee Her uniform and her mum visit the pet shop together they think that they will be choosing lollipop stick were both a dog however, Crumble, little amateur to start with but the dog, has very different ideasbenefits were obvious. He wants to be sure that his prospective owner is All the animals used the perfect match for him crossing and has Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a few questions of his ownsafe path overnight. Will Terri- Lee be able to convince Crumble that she should be his owner?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395284</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=GiraffeLeilong's Big NightToo Long!|author=Carrie Grant Julia Liu and David GrantBei Lynn|rating=3.54
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|summary=To my generationEvery morning Leilong, Carrie and David Grant are the slightly annoying couple from Pop Idolbrontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. True story Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – I asked at Cheer and based on my description they simply climb out of them (her with the bright red hair), that’s the adjective I gotwindow and slide down his neck. For the next generation It's perfect, however, they are isn't it? What could be a much loved duo from CBeebies and associated TV whatnot, and, now, the authors more fun way of going to school? There is a series of problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he'Jump Up s always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and Join In– because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can' bookst be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258373</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=There's a Wocket in my PocketBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Dr SeussDavid Elliott|rating=3.54
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|summary=If you like made up creatures, this is the I love a good board book you need, because virtually all of it ! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is invented in aimed at quite a cuckooniche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, mixed up, doolally kind of waysee my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Not only is there We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''wocketballetphant'' in . The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a pocket, but there’s also hair drier becomes a ''wasketfluffalo'' in the basket, . The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''yottlecrynoceros'' in the bottle and (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'bofa' OK, let' on the sofa and so on. What a funny house this boy lives ins not go there Some people are eating!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007487738</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=CrayonCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Simon RickertyEd Boxall|rating=54
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|summary=Meet Red and BlueIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They are colours who like 're there to colour. Red colours with a blue crayon, and Blue with a red one. Are you keeping up? Red and Blue are usually friends, but when one colours on undo all the other’s pagegood that parents do, and then on so the other colour himself, things get messytrips out were always so much fun. And scribbly. And at one point A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, almost violent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116794</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Meet the ParentsOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Peter Bently and Sara OgilivieCordellya Smith
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|summary=What are parents for? Perhaps young children think 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 all their parents do is nag them about what they should be doing such as remembering their manners, tidying up he could see the present ''and eating all their vegetables'' the future. Well Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it may well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that parents do all this 's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they do so much more tooseem. This lovely, gentle picture book describes the other very important roles that parents fulfil, covering everything from the slightly unusual ketchup targets and tent pole holders to the much loved storytellers and cuddle- givers I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=There's a Shark in the BathRob Keeley|authortitle=Sarah McIntyreCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=What would you do if you found a shark in your bath? Or worse still Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, if you found a whole family of sharks in there? As luck would have it the person who does discover cabbage and aubergines. When her bath has been invaded by scary sea creatures friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is Dulcie keen to explain how good they are for you and Dulcie is one of life’s copershow nice to eat. She uses One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her skills that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and several sneaky games vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her efforts to outwit the sharks in this jolly , Miss!" and enjoyable adventureeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140712191X</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreview|title=Bear, Bird and Frog|author=Gwen Millward|rating=4.5Frontpage|genreisbn=For Sharing|summary=Bear and Bird are friends who live together. They have an exciting day planned but when Frog shows up unannounced, Bear is surprised and momentarily forgets what they had been going to do. Like a good friend, even to those who drop round without warning, he invites Frog in for tea and cake and they have a chat. Bird is a little bored, to be honest. He’s waiting for them to go out, him and Bear, but Bear seems to have forgotten all about it. In the end, it’s Bear and Frog who go out, leaving Bird behind. Bird is really a bit upset about the way he thinks they’re treating him, and even when Bear and Frog try to include him he’s a bit too proud and so stays away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266805</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewB09FFJF8YS|title=Monkey BusinessYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Smriti Prasadam-Halls Justine Avery and David WojtowyczKate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=We’re on Noah’s Ark and all ''For the animals are here, from the snakes to the lions to the crocodiles. There are two of everyone, of coursebig, though randomly grownup girls out there only appears to be one monkey, Charlie Chatter. And uhthe potty masters in training, oh. He’s lost his potty"You Can't Wear Panties! Now Charlie Chatter " is a bit cry (the big to be going on the potty, so the other animals, -girl kind!) of toilet triumph and Noah, try to convince him to try the loo instead, extolling its virtues, explaining how much fun it can be. Charlie Chatter remains unconvinced though, but when his potty fails to reappear his has a troubling choice to makepersevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408313782</amazonuk>}}''
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|summary=Sophie and Sam are on a midnight missionToots, trumps, farts. It's Whatever your word for them, find us a long time since supper and theychild that doesn're both hungryt find them irresistibly funny. Obviously a trip Funny to see what's in talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the fridge (they've got high expectations) is essential but there are dangers to overcomewrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. ItJustine Avery's dark. They really 'latest entry in her 'shouldn'tEverybody Potties!'' be raiding the fridge series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and - most frightening of all - there's Tommy Tickletail who has a body twelve feet long gently and sleeps under calmly, with the kitchen tablefamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. TheyEverybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''ve got to get to the fridge without waking the monster - or who knows what the consequences will be?!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00H53FGMM</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dom Conlon and Nicola AndersonB09BG8V3Q6|title=I Am A Giant Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Tiny the GiantEverybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Tiny knew that he was a giant. In fact you couldn't help thinking that he was a little bit cross about the fact that he had to keep telling people. He'd shake his fists and roar Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!''is the latest release in the 'I AM A GIANT'Everybody Potties!''series from Justine Avery. Proof was important, This series of course and the first step was fun picture books aims to measure his shadow, which he did when take the sun was low - but pain out of potty training children and replace it wasn't just one stepwith some fun. It was many and his shadow still ran on ahead of him. Off he went to 's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell the world, but the mountains were, well, dismissive and the tall trees whispered about it amongst themselves before they rejected what he had to sayyou. The wind didn't agree either - and went on and on about it until Tiny ran away to the sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00H3PYDC6</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Max When Fred the Snake Got Squished and the Won't Go To Bed ShowMended|author=Mark Sperring and Sarah WarburtonPeter Cotton
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|summary=Prepare Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to unleash your inner Barnum with ‘Max and the Won’t Go To Bed Show’be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. You don’t read this book – But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you perform ita bit more about Fred. So, what’s it all Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about? Wellsnakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, if you give me to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a drum roll (PLEASE!) … I will tell youwalk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007468393</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Deal's a DealJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Stephanie BlakeEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=There is always that stageCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, with childrenas any parent will tell you. But really, where they always seem why shouldn't it be? We all have to want whatever someone learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else has gotwhen we are small. I think it lasts until they areWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, wellsay, learning about thirty seven?! Here we see why the beginnings of envy with Simon, our little rabbit friend from [[Stupid Baby by Stephanie Blake|Stupid Baby]]. He's off to play with his friend Ferdinand, sun and he takes along three cars - a yellow car, a green car and a blue car. But then, of course, Ferdinand has a red car...the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579831</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=It's Time to Say GoodnightJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Harriet Ziefert and BarrouxNo, No, No!|rating=3.54
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|summary=When a little boy wakes up happy and decides to They say 'Good morning' to everything he sees he probably doesn't realise the task he has set himselfbest picture books are the simplest ones. IndeedAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, after saying 'Good morning' to twenty-plus things around him it seems it's now time to say 'Good night'!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053745</amazonuk>}}a Bookbag favourite.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=While He Was SleepingThe Farm Shop|author=Ayano ImaiDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Who needs friends when you have Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a fine walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart hat? Not Mr Browngrey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a bear big barn with a strong sense of style but a lack of companionssign outside. He can please himself. So he does, until It's a determined woodpecker decides that Mr Brown’s hat farm shop! But this is prime real estate to house him a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and a flock of his feathered friendscustomers are farmyard animals. Mr Brown quickly grows to like his new tenants. His hat attracts imitators howeverThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, the birds choose only himand even some mice. When winter comesExcited, the birds depart Kirelle and Mr Brown goes in to hibernationSam go shopping. Will he hear their singing again What will they buy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881595584</amazonuk>
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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=A Mammoth in the FridgeLittle Gold Ted|author=Michael Escoffier Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Matthieu MaudetSasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=One day, Noah opens Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the fridge water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and finds that there is sucked down a mammoth inside! drain on the side of the street. Finding himself His dad tells him not down in the sewer, Ted starts to be silly, but when panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and mum open alerts the fridge to check thereattention of Reg the sewer rat, indeedwho plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a very large mammoth, squashed kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up inside! Whatever will they do to get him out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579157</amazonuk>with a nice bowl of broth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A Treasury of Fairy Talesbook about believing in yourself|author=Helen CresswellMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Once upon a timeRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, in a village not so far awayhave been laughing at Remy, a mother calling him names because he is short and her son received a parcelhas small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. In They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that parcel little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was ‘A Treasury of Fairy Tales’, kindly sent by the publisher Harper Collinsinstigator. They curled up on And then he gets into trouble at school and the sofa and started teachers don't believe him when he tries to read… would they be enchanted?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007546513</amazonuk>explain what happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Octopus's GardenThe Invisible|author=Ringo Starr and Ben CortTom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is a beautifully illustrated book which takes the readers into a lovely world of fantasy. There is no story to speak ofIsobel, a little girl who made a big difference. The text of this book consists only of the lyrics to The Beatles song ''Octopus's'' ''Garden'' from their 1969 album Isobel lived with her parents in a house - Abbey Road. I loved this song as a very young childcold house, and I always felt this was written for children, at least on some level. I used to close my eyes listen because her parents couldn't afford to put the words as I pictured the Octopus and his enchanted garden. It is the only song, to my knowledge written solely by Ringo, and the last song which featured Ringo as the lead vocalist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120074</amazonuk>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Red SledgeNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Lita JudgeOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=In the middle of 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 snowy winterteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, a child leaves his red sledge leaning against she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the wall of his house overnightbear statue outside. Little does he know Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that the woodland creatures have their eye lives at her school. She even has bears on it for some midnight fun.her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849397937</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}