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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=BananaMurray 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. It may 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 be into the most obvious name for regular back garden, but into a dog but it’s the name world of Roddy’s petfrightening adventure and whiffs. Apparently This time round it was Roddy’s first worddrops them into a Viking land, spokenwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, by coincidenceone much bigger than Murray was, when the new pup arrived. A tad precocious and serendipitous as first utterances go but I’m going to let that one slip as, dog name asidebe honest, but he'Where Are You, Banana?s turned up and he' contains some delicious observations of family life captured in both written and painted form.ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743361629</amazonuk>0008561249
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Mungo Monkey has a Birthday PartyThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Lydia MonksWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=It’s Mungo Monkey’s birthday which means…Party Time! From baking a cake to blowing up balloons, he’s so excited to get things organised When we first meet Birpus and ready Bulbus they're running for when his friends arrivetheir lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268662</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=What He's Your Favourite Animal|author=Eric Carle|rating=4right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I love that (Please don't try this book is written by at home: it won''Eric Carle t end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and friends''. There’s something rather lovely about the idea of when a group ladder of authors moss and illustratorsvines was lowered for them, hanging out and deciding they escaped. They climbed up to collaborate on a project together. Unlike the usual two-person job, though, Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where the result is typically as seamless as if it came from a single penthey lived with their Grand Wees, this is an eclectic mix of pages that very clearly come from various minds. Let me explainNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356514</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Bear and Hare Go FishingOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Emily GravettChris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=Bear Kit and Hare are friends who like Teal were just beginning to do activities togetherwonder 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 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 since Bear REALLY loves fishingwith wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, that’s what they’re doing todaybut Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. But will Bear catch He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a fish…or something good meal and somewhere to sleep. What elsewould you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745393</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eleanor Updale and Sarah Horne1913839656|title=Itch Scritch Scratch|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary='''Warning: This Book Will Get Under Your Skin''' Well, that's what it says on the back of the book and I can promise that it's true. You might like to wear a pair of those cotton mittens for babies whilst you read. It will feel awkward, but you'll feel the benefit, honestly. But - I'm getting ahead of myself. You want to know about the book. ItLet's a family story - and the family in question are head lice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122946</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Morpurgo and Ross Collins|title=All I Said Was|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Our young friend looked up at the window and saw a pigeon balancing on the window sill and our young friend had a thought. ''I'd like to be you,'' he said, dreaming of flying off to anywhere that he liked. The pigeon was quite happy to change places: lying on the bed reading a book seemed like a good idea, so the two changed places. Our young hero thought it was great as he flew off towards the sea: ''I want to be a bird all my life''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123489</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hector and the Big Bad KnightCelebrate Being Different|author=Alex T SmithLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=All is Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not well in least because she made the happy village best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of Spottybottom as the Big, Bad Knight has stolen Granny’s magic wanddungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. Hector wants She had promised to take him to help his Granny get her wand back but there is a problem because Hector is the tiniest boy in Friday Night Club at the village local community centre and the thief is quite possibly the biggest Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and the baddest knight aroundhe wondered why that could be. However, perhaps Granny should not despair Grandma thought that it might be because Hector has a plan!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407138480</amazonuk>he looked different.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Watch Out for the CrocodileThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Lisa Moroni Amy Sparkes and Eva ErikssonKatie Hickey
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|summary=Little Tora is going on Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a very special trip with bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her Dadmoney box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Trekking Gradually, camping and animal spotting are on Tora’s agenda. No more workDavid learned to stand up, coffee drinking or talking on his mobile use the bus for Dad. Wellsupport, perhaps not much talking on his mobile anywayand walk behind it. First thoughMany decades later, there is some boring stuff; buying supplies at Elsie brought the supermarket bus, now damaged and making rusted, to the long car journey to Repair Shop, hoping that the forest. When will they start to have fun? And where are those wild animals? A little bit of imagination is called for from both father and daughter to experts there could make the trip a memorable oneit so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579890</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Cuckoo!The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Fiona RobertonAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=We do love Fiona RobertonSusan 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's books in our houset have worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, a passion that started with [[Wanted: The Perfect Pet by Fiona Roberton|Wanted: The Perfect Pet]]who couldn't have been kinder to her. This new story, about fat little cuckoo, is just as delightful as She even had her others, own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and one that Ibegan to enjoy her life. She've sneakily read without d help Mrs Russell with the children, once or twice, just so that I can properly enjoy baking and when it by myself!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912615</amazonuk>came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Pom and PimSqueakily Baby|author=Lena Landstrom and Olaf LandstromBeth Webb
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|summary=When Pom 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 ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and Pim go out for the day things start off wellwaves sing ''hush, but bad luck comes their wayhush''. Can they look on Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the bright side of every situationsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, even when they feel tripped up time la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and time again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579661</amazonuk>we know exactly what's going to happen next.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Oi Frog!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Kes Gray and Jim FieldBriony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Normally I would shy away from any book rhyming frog with log and cat with hat and hare with chairPhilippa 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 reply. 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 lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself.normally it would fill me with Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a sense of dread little amateur to be faced start with such a 'poem' to readbut the benefits were obvious. This time, however, I make an exception, because ''Oi Frog!'' is very funny All the animals used the crossing and definitely worth Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a read, and again, and again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144491085X</amazonuk>safe path overnight.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Extra YarnLeilong's Too Long!|author=Mac Barnett Julia Liu and Jon KlassenBei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=When Annabelle finds a box Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of yarnthe window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, she uses isn't it ? What could be a more fun way of going to knit school? There is a jumper. There’s some left so she knits her dog a jumper tooproblem, though. And then one for Leilong isn't happy in the boy next door. And one for city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his dog. And still there’s yarn left over. So she goes on feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and ontraffic regularly gets snarled up. She knits jumpers for everyone she knows and then starts knitting for things The school decides that don’t even need jumpershe can't be the bus anymore. Pretty soon her dark, dreary town is transformed!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406352489</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Say Hello Like ThisBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Mary MurphyDavid Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=''HelloI love a good board book! ''<br>Bumblebee Grumblebee''Hi!is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can '<br>'play'Good day!'' There’s lots of ways people can great with words and make something quite different from each other, but what about animalsone. How do they say hello? If you read this book you’ll know We have the elephant who says dons a tutu - and becomes a ''bow-wowballetphant'', . The buffalo who says has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''tip tapfluffalo'', . The rhinoceros who says drops his ice cream cone is a ''hee hawcrynoceros'' and so (think about it!) The pelican who sits onhis potty changes into a ''sm......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406347469</amazonuk>.'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=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, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
{{newreview|title=A Walk In Paris|author=Salvatore Rubbino|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Welcome to the City of Lights! Come join a little girl and her grandad as they spend a magical day exploring the sights of Paris. Follow them as they see the Louvre''It'll be brilliant, the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Sit down with them in the bistro as they tuck into lunchjust remember, and then look longingly alongside them as they gaze at the delicious treats in the window don't let go of the pâtisseriemy hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406341525</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Princess Stay AwakeOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Giles Paley-Phillips and Adriana J PuglisiCordellya Smith
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|summary=This cheerful picture book will resonate with parents everywhereWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Princess Layla doesn’t want Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to go use it well. He liked to bedtrick other animals. Every single evening she stays awake instead He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. The cheeky princess ignores every attempt to persuade her You might think that 's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4|genre=For Sharing|summary= 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 night’s sleep is what childrenthey are for you and how nice to eat. One day, even princessespoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, needwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. She skips around Infuriated, Lily checks with the bedroomteacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, plays with her toys without even a yawn like carrots, grow in sightthe ground. Her exhausted parents have tried everything they can think ofJordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily...or have they?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848861095</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=I Love MumYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Joanna Walsh Justine Avery and Judi AbbotKate Zhoidik
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|summary=When I went to get dressed this morning''For the big, grownup girls out there, on my only decent post baby brathe potty masters in training, was what appeared to be butternut squash. Regurgitated. Veg I.D. was confirmed by "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the Daddy big-girl kind!) of the house. Ever helpful, he recalled that he had seen our little boy chewing ittoilet triumph and persevering panty pride. It is because of incidents like this that books like ''I Love Mum'' get written, bought and read. Without a bit of positive affirmation for Mummies, the human race could die out. Quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070592</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview
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|summary=Miffy and daddy are off on an exciting day trip. They’re catching a train to the zoo! Aren’t they lucky? They see zebras and monkeys and giraffes. What a lovely day they have.
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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=Millie SharesJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Claire AlexanderEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=ItToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn's a perennial problem for parents of little ones - how to get t find them to shareirresistibly funny. When my daughter was little she used Funny to hover around the doors of the toy cupboardtalk about and joke about, hoping to be first in that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the queue to get her hands on a dolly pushchairwrong time.In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh.At you. there are never enough dolly pushchairs it seemsJustine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties! Different parents react in different ways. Some see their little darling snatching a toy from another child '' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and immediately leap in gently and start calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''share!' conversation. |isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} Others laugh {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and say Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'well, they have to learn...' I think reactions differ depending on whether your child is always the one stealing the toys away, or if yours is the child weeping latest release in the corner because someone took ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the yellow ball from herpain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. AnywayIt's a worthy aim, if as any frustrated parent will tell you're having problems with the idea of sharing then try this sweet story!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140526408X</amazonuk>. .
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=The BeatlesWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Mick Manning and Brita GranstromPeter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'The Beatlesm getting ahead of myself: I'' begins with the childhood d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of John Lennon at the end of the second world war. The first illustration seems us who have a phobia about snakes are going to convey and infant John twisting and shouting on his way warm to the air raid shelterhim. The text and illustrations both paint He arrived as a present in a picture of mischievous but intelligent child. We especially loved an illustration box with holes so that shows the mixed emotions of the passengers he could breathe and driver as John plays an old harmonica for hours on the bus. Some immediately became part of the passengers look desperate family, to escape, but the driver is so impressed he gives John extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a better harmonicawalk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804519</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Perfect HugJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Joanna Walsh and Judi AbbottEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Who doesn’t like a nice hugCan potty training ever be joyous? Hugs and cuddles are something It often isn't, as any parent will tell you know from birth are nice. But really, and unlike with kisses you don’t why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to worry learn about Aunty Florence’s smelly breath or wet slobberingeverything else when we are small. In this bookWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, our unnamedsay, panda-shaped hero is out to find learning about why the perfect hug. Along the way he tries big hugs and small hugs and prickly hugs sun and tickly hugs, but none are quite right. Can he find the one he’s looking for? Is there a secret to moon take turns in the perfect hugsky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471120058</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.
{{newreview|title=Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats|author=T S Eliot and Rebecca Ashdown (Illustrator)|rating=4'No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=It has always struck me to be the very definition of disappointment to think you're going to study Eliot's poetry at college or universityNo, no, no! Okay, only to find it is some errant dross like 'The Four Quartets'okay. His book of Cats poems is in the strictest of verseYes, ityou may.'s bursting with levity, it's surely great fun to share – what That's not to prefer here? If I were youit! But, like all the best picture books, I'd just ignore what kind this tiny snippet of show these pages once inspired, and turn or return to them, Prufrock be damnedtext is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571311865</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Serious Sas and Messy MagdaThe Farm Shop|author=Marianne de Pierres Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Rachel Annie BridgenEma Tepic
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|summary=ParenthoodKirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Isn’t it great? Setting an exampleKirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. Forming young minds. Embarrassing your kids. Whether it’s Dad dancing or Mum singing in publicAs they walk to the top of the hill, most parents do one thing that makes their child cringethey see a big barn with a sign outside. Pity then poor Sas whose Mum It's a farm shop! But this is messy Magda, a woman farm shop with more than a difference: all the one odd habitstallholders 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>1909423041</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Zoom Zoom Zoom|author=Katherina Manolessou|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Monkey and Bird aren’t tired. They don’t want to sleep. They want an adventure! And so leaving the birds sleeping in the trees, What will they set off to the moon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230763782</amazonuk>buy?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Squishy McFluff: Sadie and the Invisible Cat!Sea Dogs|author=Pip JonesMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=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, 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…
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{{newreview
|title=Best Counting Book Ever
|author=Richard Scarry
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|summary=There are Sadie's mother always said that she was a number of things I like about this book. One is the illustrations which are reminiscent of the Richard Scarry books of my youthdreamer, not surprising since this is a reissue of a book that first hit the shelves in 1975her mind never on what she should be doing. They are bright and colourful, but simple too and She lives by the restrained plain colour pallet is refreshing in a world of patterns River Thames at Greenwich and glittershe loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531141</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|title=A Book is a Book''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|author=Jenny Bornholdt and Sarah Wilkins''To the Maritime Museum''. |rating=4 |genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Yes, children – adults lie to youHer imagination was fired. Sometimes, even in She'd love to sail the titles of the books they make for you, like this oneoceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. A book is One day she fell asleep under a door, glass case (it's great for boredom, itthe one where Nelson's fine for time up a tree, or in Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the bath (just not closing bell and the shower). It can be borrowed, and then lent if itattendant's a great one you enjoyedwarning shout. ItWhen she woke (hard floors don's certainly never t make comfy beds) she was in the case midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a book is just a bookworld of dolphins, pirates, as the title of this book would have you believemermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579920</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=I am Cat (mini edition)Little Gold Ted|author=Jackie MorrisVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|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.
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{{newreview
|title=Choosing Crumble
|author=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Terri- Lee wants a dog. She is positive that a dog will be the perfect pet for her and will settle for nothing else. When Terri-Lee and her mum visit the pet shop together they think that they will be choosing a dog however, Crumble, the dog, has very different ideas. He wants to be sure that his prospective owner is the perfect match for him and has a few questions of his own. Will Terri- Lee be able to convince Crumble that she should be his owner?
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{{newreview
|title=Giraffe's Big Night
|author=Carrie Grant and David Grant
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|summary=To my generationOne day, Carrie Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and David Grant are the slightly annoying couple from Pop Idolwater is swirling. True story – I asked at Cheer Poor Ted starts to spin around and based around and is sucked down a drain on my description the side of them (her with the bright red hair)street. Finding himself down in the sewer, that’s Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the adjective I got. For attention of Reg the next generationsewer rat, howeverwho plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, they are which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a much loved duo from CBeebies kind soul and associated TV whatnot, he dries Ted off and, now, the authors of warms him up with a series nice bowl of ''Jump Up and Join In'' booksbroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258373</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=There's a Wocket Remy: A book about believing in my Pocketyourself|author=Dr SeussMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=3.54
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|summary=If you like made up creatures, this Remy is the book you need, because virtually all of it is invented in a cuckoo, mixed up, doolally kind of wayfeeling miserable. Not only is there a He's let himself down ''wocketagain'' in a pocket. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but there’s also a ''wasket'' in they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the basketother kids are around. So, a ''yottle'' in when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the bottle instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don''bofa'' on the sofa and so ont believe him when he tries to explain what happened. What a funny house this boy lives in!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007487738</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=CrayonThe Invisible|author=Simon RickertyTom Percival
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|summary=Meet Red and Blue. They are colours This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who like to colourmade a big difference. Red colours Isobel lived with her parents in a blue crayon, and Blue with house - a red one. Are you keeping up? Red and Blue are usually friendsvery cold house, but when one colours because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on : ''Ice curled across the other’s page, inside of the window and then on crept up the corner of the other colour himself, things get messy. And scribblybedpost. And at one point, almost violent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116794</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=Noguchi The family didn't go to the Samurai|author=Burt Konzak and Johnny Wales|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Noguchi the Samurai is the story of two Samurai. Michihara is old and wise, while Noguchi is young and brash cinema or on holidays but very powerful they had each other and strongthey were happy. Noguchi and Michihara both find themselves on a boat, with several very frightened passengers as Noguchi vents his anger on all around him and revels in Then the fear he causes. While day came when they couldn't afford the rest of rent for the passengers huddled in fear, Michihara slept, unperturbed by the events around him. This drove Noguchi house and they had to move to even greater extremes, taking a swipe with his great sword near the sleeping Samurai, who still showed no fear. No matter how much Nogushi tried, he could not provoke Michihara or disturb his calm and peaceful nature. But with the safety far side of others at stake as well, the quiet old man at last agrees to a duelcity. It seems like victory will be certain for This part of the young and powerful Noguchi against the small and age wizened elder, but things are not always as they seem. I don't wish to give away exactly how this ends, but I am sure you can guess who will come out victorious. Michihara triumphs, not through mightcity was cold, but through wisdom. But even in victory his calm sad and quiet nature remain unchanged lonely and his compassion becomes all the more evident - turning an enemy into a friendIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>189555554X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Meet the ParentsNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Peter Bently and Sara OgilivieOne Night in Beartown
|rating=4
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|summary=What are parents for? Perhaps young Many children think that all their parents do have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is nag them obsessed with bears. She collects books about what they should be doing such as remembering their manners, tidying up and eating all their vegetablesbears. WellHer favourite toy is Berisford, it may be that parents do all this but they do so much more tooa teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. This lovelyEvery night, gentle picture book describes the other very important roles that parents fulfil, covering everything from the slightly unusual ketchup targets she looks out of her bedroom window and tent pole holders says goodnight to the much loved storytellers and cuddle- giversbear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075829</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|title=There's a Shark in the Bath|author=Sarah McIntyre|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=What would you do if you found a shark in your bath? Or worse still, if you found a whole family of sharks 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 of life’s copers. She uses her skills and several sneaky games in her efforts Move on to outwit the sharks in this jolly and enjoyable adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140712191X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]