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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Let's Go, Baby-o!Adam Stower|authortitle=Janet McLean Murray and Andrew McLeanBun
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|summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…
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|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon
|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
|rating=4
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|summary=Hey! Baby When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has woken up in his cot and wants to playcome about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Luckily his singing He's right behind them, dancingspewing hot, jiggling and bouncing older cousin is there to spring him free and start the funsour milk from his nostrils. They leap and chant and jump and sing (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. Meanwhile) Fortunately, in the garden, the rest they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of the familymoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the pets and Tree Wee homes high up in the wildlife are having some drama of tangled woods where they lived with their own. Baby and his dancing cousin pause to look out the window. Their observations inspire them to move Grand Wees, Nester Nook and sing againGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361319</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dom Conlon and Nicola AndersonB0CC9W7GLR|title=I Will Eat On the Beach: The Moon (Tiny the Giant)Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=We [[I Am A Giant (Tiny the Giant) by Dom Conlon Kit and Nicola Anderson|first]] met Tiny when he was but a young giant and determined Teal were just beginning to prove that he wonder whether it was ''big''. When all seemed lost he was proved better to be right 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 day (as well as his pride) was savedshoreline. This time he's taken on an even bigger taskOn top of the ice was a polar bear. He knows that giants need big things to eat As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and he's got his eyes on with wobbly legs moved from the moonice. Actually, he's licking his lipsKit was all for making a run for it, but it doesn't impress Teal knew that the moonbear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JCZS6Y6</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Convertible SpaceshipLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Claire Philip and Belinda GallagherLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=When is a bookTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not a book? least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. When it is also a playmat She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and also a spaceshipTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. With ‘Convertible Spaceship’ you get all three; a book At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that folds out into a playmat or into a spaceshipcould be. Can I hear the excitement from here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782094970</amazonuk>Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Love Monster and the Last ChocolateThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Rachel BrightAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Love Monster has been away on holiday, 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's d been born with cerebral palsy and even just come standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home with that 'holiday's over' feeling. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, only to find the Repair Shop, hoping that someone has left a large box of chocolates on his front doorstep! Who left them the experts there? And why? And would could make it be okay to eat them by himself or, actually, should he really be sharing them so that her grandchildren could play with his friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007540302</amazonuk>it.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Never ask a Dinosaur to DinnerThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Gareth Edwards Amy Sparkes and Guy Parker-ReesKatie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=I donSusan 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 expect youhave worried though as she went to the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn've ever thought about asking a dinosaur t have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to dinnerenjoy her life. In case She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it ever crosses your mind came to do so, this helpful book informs you of Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the probable consequences of such a rash actionChristmas tree. It will also prove helpful should you be thinking about using a tiger as a towel or, heaven forbid, if you wondered if it would be okay to share your toothbrush with a shark!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136933</amazonuk>The best surprise happened the following morning.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Cheetham1916459943|title=Off to the Park!Squeakily Baby|author=Beth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=ItMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a nice day and we're off to the parksqueakily baby. Shoes on first He's so tired but he can't - tie the laces or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and then we're off down the street'wails''. We go over the road by the crossing (press the button, please) and open the gate into the parkThe sea offers to help. It's a metal gate rocks Baby gently and we can feel the cold of the metal and hear the squeak as the gate opens and wewaves sing ''hush, hush''re on to the gravel path. It's Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a long, winding path sandy beach and we can hear you have the stones scrunchsound perfectly. But thereThe mermaids join in - ''s plenty to play with herela lou, from kicking la lay...'' And for a ball around moment it seems to going on the swings and climbing the steps so that we can come down the slidehave worked as Baby closes his eyes. ThereThen a seagull 's even a tyre to swing on - and when we've played for 'shouts'ages'' thereand we know exactly what's sure to be an ice cream going to enjoyhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846435021</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Chocolate Porridge (Early Reader)A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Margaret Mahy and Terry MilneBriony May Smith
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|summary=Young Timothy has been drummed out Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of his mother's kitchen by her and his sisters, so he cannot join in with their bakingnearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. Instead he goes She wrote to the garden and devises chocolate porridge – mayor about the problem but didn't even get a lot of mud, plus some other ingredientsreply. But only when hePhilippa wasn's happy with his craft does he begin t a bird to realise 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 not even calling mud chocolate porridge makes it edibleshe would set up something similar herself. Oh what is Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a boy little amateur to do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011308</amazonuk>start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Barbapapas New HouseLeilong's Too Long!|author=Annette Tison Julia Liu and Talus TaylorBei Lynn|rating=4.5
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|summary=At the end of Every morning Leilong, the [[Barbapapa's Voyage by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor|last Barbapapa book]]brontosaurus school bus, our pink protagonist and makes his lovely wife were blessed with way through the addition of seven new shape-shifting Barbababiescity, picking up children as he goes. A house that was already cramped for a couple was literally bursting Children who live at the seams as top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the family of nine squeezed window and squashed themselves into every available creviceslide down his neck. Something had It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to give; school? There is a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the walls collapsed city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and out spilled traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the unfortunate familybus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833139X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Where Are You Banana?Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=Sofie Laguna and Craig Smith (Illustrator)David Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=Banana. I love a good board book! It may not be the most obvious name ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for a dog but it’s the name of Roddy’s pet. Apparently it was Roddy’s first word, spoken, by coincidencechild who still enjoys board books (er, when the new pup arrived. A tad precocious and serendipitous as see my first utterances go sentence) but I’m going has mastered sufficient language skills to let have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one slip as, dog name aside, . We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant'Where Are You, Banana?' contains some delicious observations of family life captured in both written . The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and painted formthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361629</amazonuk> The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1838226834
|title=Carried Away With the Carnival
|author=Ed Boxall
|rating=4
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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:
''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Mungo Monkey has a Birthday PartyOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Lydia MonksCordellya Smith
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|summary=It’s Mungo Monkey’s birthday which means…Party Time! From baking 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 cake strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to blowing up balloons, he’s so excited use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to get things organised be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and ready for when his friends arrivesee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268662</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=What's Your Favourite AnimalRob Keeley|authortitle=Eric CarleCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=I love that this book is written by ''Eric Carle Lily loves eating fruit and friends''vegetables. There’s something rather lovely about the idea of a group of authors She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and illustratorsaubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, hanging out Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and deciding how nice to collaborate eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on a project togethertrees. Unlike Infuriated, Lily checks with the usual two-person jobteacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, thoughlike carrots, where grow in the result is typically as seamless as if it came from a single penground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, this is an eclectic mix of pages that very clearly come from various minds. Let me explainMiss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406356514</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=Bear and Hare Go FishingYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Emily GravettJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=Bear and Hare are friends who like to do activities together''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and since Bear REALLY loves fishing, that’s what they’re doing todaypersevering panty pride. But will Bear catch a fish…or something else?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745393</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview
|author=Eleanor Updale and Sarah Horne
|title=Itch Scritch Scratch
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary='''Warning: This Book Will Get Under Your Skin'''
Well, thatAnd so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's what it says on the back of the book 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 I can promise her baby sibling that it's true. You might like to 'she'' can wear a pair of those cotton mittens for babies whilst you readsuper-duper proper pants, while they cannot. It will feel awkwardNeither can the flowers, but you'll feel nor the benefitfish, honestlynor the birds. But - IBoy's certainly can'm getting ahead of myself. You want to know about the bookt. ItShe's a family story - big girl now and the family in question are head lice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122946</amazonuk>she wants everyone to know it!}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo Justine Avery and Ross CollinsNaday Meldova|title=All I Said WasEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyFor Sharing|summary=Our young friend looked up Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the window wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and saw a pigeon balancing on the window sill and our young friend had a thoughteveryone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her 'I'd like to be you,Everybody Potties!'' he saidseries takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, dreaming of flying off to anywhere that he liked. The pigeon was quite happy to change places: lying on with the bed reading a book seemed like a good ideafamiliar humour attached, so the two changed placesexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. Our young hero thought Everybody does it was great as he flew off towards the sea: ''I want to be a bird all my lifeEverybody Toots''.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123489</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Hector and the Big Bad KnightWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Alex T SmithJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=All ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is not well the latest release in the happy village ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of Spottybottom as the Big, Bad Knight has stolen Granny’s magic wand. Hector wants fun picture books aims to help his Granny get her wand back but there is a problem because Hector is take the tiniest boy in the village and the thief is quite possibly the biggest pain out of potty training children and the baddest knight aroundreplace it with some fun. HoweverIt's a worthy aim, perhaps Granny should not despair because Hector has a plan!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407138480</amazonuk>as any frustrated parent will tell you. .
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Watch Out for When Fred the CrocodileSnake Got Squished and Mended|author=Lisa Moroni and Eva ErikssonPeter Cotton
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Little Tora is going on a very special trip with her DadMeet Fred. Trekking Well, camping and animal spotting are on Tora’s agenda. No more workactually, coffee drinking or talking on his mobile you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for Dadreasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. Well, perhaps not much talking on his mobile anyway But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. First though, there Fred is some boring stuff; buying supplies at the supermarket a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and making immediately became part of the long car journey family, to the forestextent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. When will they start to have fun? And that was where are those wild animals? the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. A little bit of imagination is called for from both father and daughter to make the trip a memorable oneOr brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579890</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cuckoo!Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Fiona RobertonEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=We do love Fiona RobertonCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn's books in our houset, a passion that started with [[Wanted: The Perfect Pet by Fiona Roberton|Wanted: The Perfect Pet]]as any parent will tell you. This new storyBut really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about fat little cuckoo, is our bodily functions just as delightful we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as her others, say, learning about why the sun and one that I've sneakily read without the children, once or twice, just so that I can properly enjoy it by myself!moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444912615</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Pom Justine Avery and PimNaday Meldova|authortitle=Lena Landstrom and Olaf LandstromNo, No, No!
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|summary=When Pom and Pim go out for They say the day things start off well, but bad luck comes their waybest picture books are the simplest ones. Can they look on the bright side And nothing could be truer of every situationthis latest from Justine Avery, even when they feel tripped up time and time again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579661</amazonuk>}}a Bookbag favourite.
{{newreview|title=Oi Frog!|author=Kes Gray and Jim Field|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Normally I would shy away from any book rhyming frog with log and cat with hat and hare with chair...normally it would fill me with a sense of dread to be faced with such a 'poem' to read. This time, howeverNo, I make an exceptionNo, because ''Oi FrogNo!'' is very funny and definitely worth a read, and again, and again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144491085X</amazonuk>}}based around the simplest text imaginable.
{{newreview|title=Extra Yarn|author=Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Annabelle finds a box of yarn''No, she uses it to knit a jumperno, no! Okay, okay. There’s some left so she knits her dog a jumper tooYes, you may. And then one for the boy next door. And one for his dog. And still there’s yarn left over. So she goes on and on. She knits jumpers for everyone she knows and then starts knitting for things that don’t even need jumpers. Pretty soon her dark, dreary town is transformed!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406352489</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=Say Hello Like This|author=Mary Murphy|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=That''Hellos it!''<br>''Hi!''<br>''Good day!'' There’s lots of ways people can great each otherBut, like all the best picture books, but what about animals. How do they say hello? If you read this book you’ll know who says ''bowtiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis -wow'', who says ''tip tap'', who says ''hee haw'' and so much bigger on the inside that it appears onthe outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406347469</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreview|title=A Walk In ParisFrontpage|authorisbn=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, the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Sit down with them in the bistro as they tuck into lunch, and then look longingly alongside them as they gaze at the delicious treats in the window of the pâtisserie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406341525</amazonuk>}} {{newreview194812467X|title=Princess Stay AwakeThe Farm Shop|author=Giles Paley-Phillips Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Adriana J PuglisiEma Tepic
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|summary=This cheerful picture book will resonate with parents everywhere. Princess Layla doesn’t want Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go to bedfor a walk. Every single evening she stays awake instead. The cheeky princess ignores every attempt to persuade Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her that a good night’s sleep bright yellow wellies and Sam is what children, even princesses, needperfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. She skips around As they walk to the bedroomtop of the hill, plays they see a big barn with her toys without even a yawn in sightsign outside. Her exhausted parents have tried everything they can think ofIt's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals.There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice.Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.or have  What will theybuy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861095</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=I Love MumSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Joanna Walsh Maureen Duffy and Judi AbbotAnita Joice
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|summary=When I went to get dressed this morning, thereSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on my only decent post baby bra, was what appeared to she should be butternut squashdoing. Regurgitated. Veg I.D. was confirmed She lives by the Daddy of the houseRiver Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Ever helpful, he recalled that he  ''Her class had seen our little boy chewing it. It is because of incidents like this that books like gone one rainy afternoon''I Love Mum<br>'' get writtenWhen all the houses cowered in the gloom, bought ''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and readthe attendant's warning shout. Without When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a bit world of positive affirmation for Mummiesdolphins, the human race could die out. Quicklypirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070592</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Miffy at the ZooLittle Gold Ted|author=Dick BrunaVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=Miffy One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and daddy are off is sucked down a drain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an exciting day tripold cricket bat. They’re catching Reg is a train to the zoo! Aren’t they lucky? They see zebras kind soul and monkeys he dries Ted off and giraffes. What warms him up with a lovely day they havenice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120821</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Millie SharesRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Claire AlexanderMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=ItRemy is feeling miserable. He's a perennial problem for parents of little ones - how to get them to sharelet himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, When my daughter was little she used to hover around the doors of the toy cupboardtogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, hoping to be first in the queue to get her hands on a dolly pushchaircalling him names because he is short and has small eyes.They are mean but they are not stupid.. there They are never enough dolly pushchairs it seems! Different parents react in different ways. Some careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see their and then push him just that little darling snatching a toy from another child and immediately leap in and start bit further when the 'share!' conversationother kids are around. Others laugh and say 'wellSo, they have to learn...' I think reactions differ depending on whether your child is always the one stealing the toys awaywhen Remy reacts, or if yours is it looks as though he was the child weeping in instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the corner because someone took the yellow ball from herteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened. 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=1471191303|title=The BeatlesInvisible|author=Mick Manning and Brita GranstromTom Percival
|rating=5
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|summary=''The Beatles'' begins with This is the childhood story of John Lennon at the end of the second world warIsobel, a little girl who made a big difference. The first illustration seems to convey and infant John twisting and shouting on his way Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the air raid shelter. The text and illustrations both paint a picture of mischievous but intelligent child. We especially loved an illustration that shows the mixed emotions of the passengers and driver as John plays an old harmonica for hours heating on the bus. Some of the passengers look desperate to escape, but the driver is so impressed he gives John a better harmonica.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804519</amazonuk>}}:
{{newreview|title=The Perfect Hug|author=Joanna Walsh and Judi Abbott|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Who doesn’t like a nice hug? Hugs and cuddles are something you know from birth are nice, and unlike with kisses you don’t have to worry about Aunty Florence’s smelly breath or wet slobbering. In this book, our unnamed, panda-shaped hero is out to find ''Ice curled across the perfect hug. Along inside of the way he tries big hugs window and small hugs and prickly hugs and tickly hugs, but none are quite right. Can he find crept up the one he’s looking for? Is there a secret to corner of the perfect hug?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120058</amazonuk>}}bedpost.''
{{newreview|title=Old PossumThe family didn's Book of Practical Cats|author=T S Eliot t go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and Rebecca Ashdown (Illustrator)|rating=4they were happy.5|genre=Children Then the day came when they couldn's Rhymes t afford the rent for the house and Verse|summary=It has always struck me they had to move to be the very definition far side of disappointment to think you're going to study Eliot's poetry at college or university, only to find it is some errant dross like 'The Four Quartets'the city. His book This part of Cats poems is in the strictest of verse, it's bursting with levity, it's surely great fun to share – what's not to prefer here? If I were you, I'd just ignore what kind of show these pages once inspiredcity was cold, sad and lonely and turn or return to them, Prufrock be damnedIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571311865</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Serious Sas Nick Jones and Messy MagdaSi Clark|authortitle=Marianne de Pierres and Rachel Annie BridgenOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Parenthood. Isn’t it great? Setting Many children have an exampleobsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. Forming young mindsShe collects books about bears. Embarrassing your kidsHer favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Whether it’s Dad dancing or Mum singing in publicEvery night, most parents do one thing that makes their child cringeshe looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Pity then poor Sas whose Mum is messy MagdaEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a woman with more than the one odd habitcolourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909423041</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{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, they set off to the moon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230763782</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Squishy McFluff: the Invisible Cat!|author=Pip Jones|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|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 Move 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 Scarry|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=There are a number of things I like about this book. One is the illustrations which are reminiscent of the Richard Scarry books of my youth, not surprising since this is a reissue of a book that first hit the shelves in 1975. They are bright and colourful, but simple too and the restrained plain colour pallet is refreshing in a world of patterns and glitter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531141</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Book is a Book|author=Jenny Bornholdt and Sarah Wilkins|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Yes, children – adults lie to you. Sometimes, even in the titles of the books they make for you, like this one. A book is a door, it's great for boredom, it's fine for time up a tree, or in the bath (just not the shower). It can be borrowed, and then lent if it's a great one you enjoyed. It's certainly never the case that a book is just a book, as the title of this book would have you believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579920</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]