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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Millie SharesThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Claire AlexanderWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=ItWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they's a perennial problem re running for parents their lives in the Forest of little ones - how to get them to shareFine Repute. When my daughter was little she used to hover around Their greatest fear has come about: the doors of the toy cupboard, hoping to be first in the queue to get her hands on a dolly pushchairSour Milk Dragon is chasing them... there are never enough dolly pushchairs it seems! Different parents react in different waysHe's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. Some see their little darling snatching a toy from another child and immediately leap in and start the (Please don'share!t try this at home: it won' conversationt end well. ) Others laugh Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and say 'wellvines was lowered for them, they have to learnescaped...' I think reactions differ depending on whether your child is always They climbed up to the one stealing Tree Wee homes high up in the toys awaytangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, or if yours is the child weeping in the corner because someone took the yellow ball from herNester Nook and Granny Cranny. Anyway, if you're having problems with the idea of sharing then try this sweet story!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140526408X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The BeatlesWinter Visitor|author=Mick Manning Chris Green and Brita GranstromJenny Fionda
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|summary=''The Beatles'' begins with the childhood 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 snowy beach when a large slab of John Lennon at silvery ice drifted onto the end shoreline. On top of the second world warice was a polar bear. The first illustration seems to convey As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and infant John twisting and shouting on his way to with wobbly legs moved from the air raid shelterice. The text and illustrations both paint Kit was all for making a picture of mischievous run for it, but intelligent child. We especially loved an illustration Teal knew that shows the mixed emotions of the passengers bear was hungry and gave him one apple and driver as John plays an old harmonica for hours then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus. Some of the passengers look desperate and given a good meal and somewhere to escape, but the driver is so impressed he gives John a better harmonicasleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804519</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=The Perfect HugLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Joanna Walsh and Judi AbbottLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=Who doesn’t like a nice hug? Hugs 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 cuddles are something you know from birth are nice, his favourite hat and unlike with kisses you don’t have then gathered together his button collection to worry about Aunty Florence’s smelly breath or wet slobberingshow his grandmother. In this book, our unnamed, panda-shaped hero is out She had promised to take him to find the perfect hug. Along Friday Night Club at the way local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he tries big hugs wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and small hugs and prickly hugs and tickly hugs, but none are quite righthe wondered why that could be. Can Grandma thought that it might be because he find the one he’s looking for? Is there a secret to the perfect hug?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120058</amazonuk>looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Old Possum's Book of Practical CatsThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=T S Eliot Amy Sparkes and Rebecca Ashdown (Illustrator)Katie Hickey
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=It has always struck me Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to be the very definition park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of disappointment to think youthe park but David couldn't - he're going d been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to study Eliot's poetry at college or university, only use the coins from her money box to find pay for it is some errant dross like 'The Four Quartets'as cash was tight at home. His book of Cats poems is in Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the strictest of versebus for support, and walk behind it's bursting with levity, it's surely great fun to share – what's not to prefer here? . If I were youMany decades later, I'd just ignore what kind of show these pages once inspiredElsie brought the bus, now damaged and turn or return rusted, to themthe Repair Shop, Prufrock be damnedhoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571311865</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=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 Mr and Mrs Russell, 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 baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Serious Sas and Messy MagdaSqueakily Baby|author=Marianne de Pierres and Rachel Annie BridgenBeth Webb
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|summary=ParenthoodMuch 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 ''wails''. Isn’t it great? Setting an example The sea offers to help. Forming young minds It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Embarrassing your kids Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. Whether it’s Dad dancing or Mum singing The mermaids join in public- ''la lou, most parents do one thing that makes their child cringela lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Pity then poor Sas whose Mum is messy Magda, Then a woman with more than the one odd habitseagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909423041</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Zoom Zoom ZoomA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Katherina ManolessouBriony May Smith|rating=34.5
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|summary=Monkey and Bird aren’t Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. They don’t want She wrote to sleepthe mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. They want an adventure! And so leaving Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the birds sleeping in lollipop lady at the trees, they school crossing and decided that she would set off up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the moonanimals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230763782</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Squishy McFluff: the Invisible Cat!1776574338|authortitle=Pip Jones|rating=3.5|genre=ChildrenLeilong's Rhymes and VerseToo Long!|summaryauthor=Meet Ava. She's a girl of great imagination and a big heart, who brings an invisible cat home to mum one day, who humours Ava by feeding it invisible food and letting the two bond. But when mess gets made, and mistakes about the house happen, Ava declares innocence, Julia Liu and blames it all on the cat – and you'd be surprised how many accidents can be the result of having an invisible kitten indoors…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302505</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Best Counting Book Ever|author=Richard ScarryBei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=There are a number of things I like about this bookEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. One is Children who live at the illustrations which are reminiscent top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the Richard Scarry books of my youthwindow and slide down his neck. It's perfect, not surprising since this is isn't it? What could be a reissue more fun way of going to school? There is a book that first hit problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the shelves in 1975. They are bright city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and colourful, but simple too – 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't be the restrained plain colour pallet is refreshing in a world of patterns and glitterbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531141</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=A Book is a BookBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Jenny Bornholdt and Sarah WilkinsDavid Elliott
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|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=YesI love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, children – adults lie see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you. Sometimes, even in the titles of the books they can ''play'' with words and make for you, like this something quite different from each one. A book is We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a door, it's great for boredom, it's fine for time up balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a tree, or in the bath (just not the showercomplete with yellow duck). It can be borrowed, and then lent if dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''s a great one you enjoyedsm....... '' ItOK, let's certainly never the case that a book is just a book, as the title of this not go there book would have you believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579920</amazonuk>Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=I am Cat (mini edition)Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Jackie MorrisEd Boxall
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|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=YouIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're always supposed there to tell when a dog is dreaming – the twitching limbs and jerking joints allegedly proving the sleeping Fido is imagining himself on undo all the chase. Cats are, as always, a bit more secretive, but [[:Category:Jackie Morris|Jackie Morris]] offers evidence here good that they are more or less thinking the same thing – even the domestic moggyparents do, curled up and closed in, is picturing a different self – one sleeking through snows, relaxing on so the savannah or alertly moving through its territorytrips out were always so much fun. It's a very pleasant view into A young boy was going to the mindset of cats.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805078</amazonuk>}}carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=GiraffeOtter's Big NightCoat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Carrie Grant and David GrantCordellya Smith|rating=3.54
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|summary=To my generationWhen the world was made, Carrie and David Grant are the slightly annoying couple from Pop Idolanimals 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. True story – I asked at Cheer Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and based on my description of them (her with '' the bright red hair), that’s the adjective I gotfuture. For the next generation, however, they are a much loved duo from CBeebies and associated TV whatnot, and Rabbit developed intelligence - but, nowunfortunately, not the authors of ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a series of race with Turtle. You might think that''Jump Up s not a fair contest but wait and Join In'see. Things are not always as they seem. I' booksll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258373</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=There's a Wocket in my PocketRob Keeley|authortitle=Dr SeussCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=3.54
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|summary=If you like made Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up creaturestheir noses, this Lily is the book keen to explain how good they are for you need, because virtually all of it is invented in a cuckooand how nice to eat. One day, mixed uppoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, doolally kind of waywho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Not only is there a ''wocket'' in a pocketInfuriated, but there’s also a ''wasket'' in Lily checks with the basketteacher, a ''yottle'' who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the bottle and ''bofa'' on the sofa ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and so oneveryone laughs at poor Lily. What a funny house this boy lives in!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007487738</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=CrayonYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Simon RickertyJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=Meet Red and Blue. They are colours who like to colour. Red colours with a blue crayon''For the big, and Blue with a red one. Are you keeping up? Red and Blue are usually friendsgrownup girls out there, but when one colours on the other’s pagepotty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and then on the other colour himself, things get messy. And scribbly. And at one point, almost violentpersevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116794</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=Meet the ParentsJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Peter Bently and Sara OgilivieEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=What are parents Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for? Perhaps young children think them, find us a child that all their parents do is nag doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about what they should be doing such as remembering their manners, tidying up and eating all their vegetablesthat is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. WellIn class, say, when everyone will hear it may be that parents do all this but they do so much more tooand everyone will laugh. At you. This lovelyJustine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, gentle picture book describes with the other very important roles familiar humour attached, explains that parents fulfil, covering everything from the slightly unusual ketchup targets and tent pole holders to the much loved storytellers and cuddle- giverstooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075829</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=There's a Shark in the BathWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Sarah McIntyreJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=What would you do if you found a shark in your bath''Who Needs Nappies? Or worse still, if you found a whole family of sharks Not Me!'' is the latest release in there? As luck would have it the person who does discover her bath has been invaded by scary sea creatures is Dulcie and Dulcie is one ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of life’s copers. She uses her skills and several sneaky games in her efforts fun picture books aims to outwit take the sharks in this jolly pain out of potty training children and enjoyable adventurereplace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140712191X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Bear, Bird When Fred the Snake Got Squished and FrogMended|author=Gwen MillwardPeter Cotton
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|summary=Bear and Bird are friends who live togetherMeet Fred. They have an exciting day planned but when Frog shows up unannounced Well, actually, Bear is surprised and momentarily forgets what they had been you're going to dobe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Like Fred is a good friend, snake and even to those of us who drop round without warning, he invites Frog in for tea and cake and they have a chat. Bird is a little bored, phobia about snakes are going to be honest. He’s waiting for them warm to go out, him . He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and Bearimmediately became part of the family, but Bear seems to have forgotten all about it. In the end, it’s Bear and Frog who go extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out, leaving Bird behindfor a walk. Bird is really a bit upset about And that was where 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 awayproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266805</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Monkey BusinessJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Smriti Prasadam-Halls and David WojtowyczEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=We’re on Noah’s Ark and Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all the animals are here, from the snakes have to the lions learn about our bodily functions just as we have to the crocodiles. There learn about everything else when we are two of everyone, of course, though randomly there only appears to be one monkey, Charlie Chatter. And uh, ohsmall. He’s lost his Why shouldn't potty! Now Charlie Chatter is a bit big to training be going on the pottyas much fun as, say, so learning about why the other animals, sun 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 make.moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408313782</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rules of SummerJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Shaun TanNo, No, No!|rating=54
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|summary=''Rules of Summer'' is not one of those They say the best picture books that is ever likely to earn are the blanket recommendation ''One for every child's bookshelf''. This book is not for every childsimplest ones. For some it And nothing could be the stuff truer of nightmares. But for those children who have grown bored with the pedestrian banality of many of the books on the high streetthis latest from Justine Avery, for children with a vivid imagination who are not too easily frightened, this book can be pure magic. It is a story of friendship, of the relationship between brothers, of anger and rivalry, and also of love and redemption, told with minimal text and the beautiful surreal imagery of Tan's paintingsBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0734410670</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=A Deal's a DealThe Farm Shop|author=Stephanie BlakeDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=There Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is always that stage, with children, where perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they always seem walk to want whatever someone else has got. I think it lasts until the top of the hill, they are, well, about thirty seven?! Here we see the beginnings of envy a big barn with Simon, our little rabbit friend from [[Stupid Baby by Stephanie Blake|Stupid Baby]]a sign outside. HeIt's off to play a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with his friend Ferdinanda difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and he takes along three cars - a yellow carchickens, a green car and a blue careven some mice. But thenExcited, of course, Ferdinand has a red car..Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579831</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=It's Time to Say GoodnightSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Harriet Ziefert Maureen Duffy and BarrouxAnita Joice
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|summary=When Sadie's mother always said that she was a little boy wakes up happy and decides to say 'Good morning' to everything he sees he probably doesn't realise the task he has set himselfdreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. Indeed, after saying 'Good morning' She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to twenty-plus things around him it seems it's now time to say 'Good night'!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053745</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Alphaprints ABC|author=Jo Ryan and Sarah Powell|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A is for Alternative. B is for Bright. C is for Charming. D for Delightspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Well, that’s my opinion of the alphabet board book ''Alphaprints ABC'' – take it from me, the actual rhymes are better!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849159424</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=The Snow QueenLittle Gold Ted|author=Hans Christian Andersen Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and P J Lynch (Illustrator)Sasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=Determined heroine Gerda has One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a series of adventures on her journey to find her friend Kay after he has been spirited away by deep puddle and the Snow Queen water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to live in her palace of ice. 'The Snow Queen' spin around and around and is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s less disturbing fables with sucked down a message about drain on the power side of love and true friendshipthe street. Finding himself No heart wrenching deaths like down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. 'The Little Match Girl', no tortured longing like OH HELP ME PLEASE'The Little Mermaid', it has he cries and alerts the benefit attention of a happy ending. AndReg the sewer rat, in contrast to so many traditional tales where who plucks him out of the hero is usually maledirty water using his cane, its star which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a lively girl who rescues her friend against all the oddskind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709011</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=While He Was SleepingRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Ayano ImaiMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Who needs friends when you have a fine smart hat? Not Mr Brown, a bear with a strong sense of style but a lack of companionsRemy is feeling miserable. He can please 's let himselfdown ''again''. So The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he does, until a determined woodpecker decides that Mr Brown’s hat is prime real estate to house him short and a flock of his feathered friendshas small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. Mr Brown quickly grows They are careful to like his new tenantswind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. His hat attracts imitators howeverSo, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the birds choose only himinstigator. When winter comes, And then he gets into trouble at school and the birds depart and Mr Brown goes in teachers don't believe him when he tries to hibernationexplain what happened. Will he hear their singing again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881595584</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Song of the Golden HareThe Invisible|author=Jackie MorrisTom Percival
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|summary=If you buy one picture book this yearThis is the story of Isobel, make it this onea little girl who made a big difference. Not because it’s Isobel lived with her parents in a good story, or because you know house - a child who would love it (both sound reasons)very cold house, but because it is also a stunning work her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of art. The pictures are full of carefully observed wildlife the window and glorious colours. Every inch adds to crept up the telling corner of the talebedpost.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804500</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Treasury of Fairy TalesNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Helen CresswellOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Once upon a timeMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in a village not so far awayBeartown, a mother and her son received a parcelis obsessed with bears. In that parcel was ‘A Treasury of Fairy Tales’, kindly sent by the publisher Harper CollinsShe collects books about bears. They curled up on the sofa and started to read… would they be enchanted?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007546513</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Octopus's Garden|author=Ringo Starr and Ben Cort|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This Her favourite toy is Berisford, a beautifully illustrated book which takes the readers into a lovely world of fantasyteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. There is no story to speak Every night, she looks out of. The text of this book consists only of the lyrics to The Beatles song ''Octopus's'' ''Garden'' from their 1969 album - Abbey Road. I loved this song as a very young child, her bedroom window and I always felt this was written for children, at least on some level. I used to close my eyes listen says goodnight to the words as I pictured the Octopus and his enchanted gardenbear statue outside. It is the only song, Every morning she says hello to my knowledge written solely by RingoBee Bear, and the last song which featured Ringo as the lead vocalista colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471120074</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}