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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Barbapapa's ArkAdam Stower|authortitle=Annette Tison Murray and Talus TaylorBun|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=''Barbapapa’s Ark'' Murray is the fourth book in the popular series about supposed to be a shape-shifting pink blobhumble, his wife tidy and seven children. It follows on from the previous bookfriendly cat, in which Barbapapa one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his family built themselves fancy next of the two. But he's a beautiful house in a peaceful valley. One daybad magician's cat, after so his favourite bun has been turned into a picnichyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the family decide to take a leisurely ride along catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the riverregular back garden, but are horrified to see sick into a world of frightening adventure and injured animals suffering from the effects of pollutionwhiffs. Over This timeround it drops them into a Viking land, more and more animals come to Barbapapa for help. He decides that the only way to teach the humans where a lesson troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to take the animals be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to a new, green planet where they will be safe.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408331381</amazonuk>0008561249

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=A First Book of Nature1732898766|authortitle=Nicola Davies The Adventures of Birpus and Mark HearldBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|ratingauthor=5|genre=Children's NonWynn Everett-Fiction|summary=There is a difference between a book for children that the kids themselves will like and one that adults will like. A more mature person may like some interesting illustrations or imaginative story, but most of the children I know are happy just to see some dinosaurs in their pants. However, there are books that transcend this and can appeal to both groups. Books that may have slightly dry reading for the very youngAlbanese, but illustrations that will transfix Michael Albanese and amaze – introducing ‘A First Book of Nature’ written by Nicola Davies and illustrated by Mark Hearld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140634916X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Grandma|author=Jessica ShepherdIndre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=54

|summary=Oscar loves When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his Grandma very much so it’s scary nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and frightening when she starts forgetting things a ladder of moss and acting differentlyvines was lowered for them, they escaped. She has They climbed up to go and live somewhere else and it smells funny the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and is full of new peopleGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846435978</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Way To The ZooWinter Visitor|author=John BurninghamChris Green and Jenny Fionda

|summary=It’s easy Kit and Teal were just beginning to lie in bed and see shadows on the wall and imagine what they could be. I still do wonder whether it now though I know was better than to think something that looks likebe at home, saybored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a door in large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the wall, might be ice was a portal to another universepolar bear. Sylvie As the ice bumped onto the sand, though, wants to double check when SHE sees what looks like the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a door and it’s just as well she doesrun for it, because lo but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and behold it IS a door gave him one apple and it DOES lead somewherethen another. It goes all the way He obviously needed to be taken home on the zoo! All the animals look nice bus and friendly so because it’s getting late given a good meal and she has school in the morning, Sylvie heads back to bed and invites a little bear somewhere to come with her for the night. She has her own real live teddysleep. What fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348406</amazonuk>else would you do?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Mrs. MoLet's MonsterCelebrate Being Different|author=Paul BeavisLainey Dee

|summary=What would you do if you answered Todd was excited about spending the door one dayweekend with his grandmother, only to find a mini monster standing there? not least because she made the best beetle juice. Most He packed two pairs of us wold probably weep a little dungarees and his favourite hat and find somewhere then gathered together his button collection to hide, but not the brave Mrs Moshow his grandmother. She appears had promised to take him to know the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this monster and will do anything as he wanted to keep him entertainedmake new friends. Will At home, his only friend was his mum and he help round the house? wondered why that could be. Nope? How about baking a cake? That may just get anybody’s attention, but will this book capture your little monster’s imagination?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271002</amazonuk>Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.

 {{newreview|title=A Day At The Airport|author=Richard ScarryFrontpage|ratingisbn=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Father Cat was taking the kids sailing, but it started to rain so they had to call it off. On the way home, though, they bump into Rudolph Von Flugel who suggests a detour to the airport as there’s lots of things to see and do there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531133</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1529504775|title=Let's Go, Baby-o!The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Janet McLean Amy Sparkes and Andrew McLeanKatie Hickey

|summary=Hey! Baby has woken up in his cot Elsie and wants her little brother David loved to play. Luckily his singing, dancing, jiggling and bouncing older cousin is there go to spring him free the park and start watch the funred buses drive past. They leap Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and chant even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and jump and singwas happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Meanwhile Gradually, in the gardenDavid learned to stand up, use the rest of the familybus for support, the pets and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the wildlife are having some drama of their own. Baby bus, now damaged and his dancing cousin pause rusted, to look out the window. Their observations inspire them to move and sing againRepair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361319</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dom Conlon and Nicola Anderson1529504767|title=I Will Eat The Moon Christmas Doll (Tiny the GiantThe Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5

|summary=We [[I Am A Giant (Tiny the Giant) by Dom Conlon and Nicola Anderson|first]] met Tiny Susan was very young when he she was but a young giant evacuated from London in 1939 and determined nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to prove that he was ''bigher 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. When She even had her own room - all seemed lost he was proved to be right herself. Gradually she relaxed and the day (as well as his pride) was savedbegan to enjoy her life. This time heShe's taken on an even bigger task. He knows that giants need big things d help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to eat Christmas Eve Susan and he's got his eyes Mr Russell put the decorations on the moonChristmas tree. Actually, he's licking his lips, but it doesn't impress The best surprise happened the moon..following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JCZS6Y6</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Convertible SpaceshipSqueakily Baby|author=Claire Philip and Belinda GallagherBeth Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=When is Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a booksqueakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, not a book? he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. When it is also Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a playmat sandy beach and also you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a spaceshipmoment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. With ‘Convertible Spaceship’ you get all three; Then a book that folds out into a playmat or into a spaceshipseagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next. Can I hear the excitement from here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782094970</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Love Monster and the Last ChocolateA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Rachel BrightBriony May Smith

|summary=Love Monster has been away on holiday, and hePhilippa Pheasant was 's just come home with that 'holidaytired's over' feeling, only of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to find that someone has left the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a large box of chocolates bird to sit back on his front doorstep! Who left them 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. And why? Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. And would it be okay All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to eat them by himself or, actually, should he really be sharing them with his friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007540302</amazonuk>provide a safe path overnight.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Never ask a Dinosaur to DinnerLeilong's Too Long!|author=Gareth Edwards Julia Liu and Guy Parker-ReesBei Lynn

|summary=I 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 expect you've ever thought about asking a dinosaur even need to dinnergo downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. In case It's perfect, isn't it ever crosses your mind ? What could be a more fun way of going to do soschool? There is a problem, this helpful book informs you of the probable consequences of such a rash actionthough. It will also prove helpful should you Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be thinking careful about using where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tiger as a towel or, heaven forbid, if you wondered if it would tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be okay to share your toothbrush with a shark!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136933</amazonuk>the bus anymore.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Cheetham1776574028|title=Off to the Park!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David Elliott|rating=54

|summary=ItI love a good board book! 's 'Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a nice day and weniche market: it're off s for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to the parkhave realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Shoes on first - tie We have the laces elephant who dons a tutu - and then webecomes a ''balletphant''re off down the street. We go over the road by the crossing The buffalo who has had a bath (press the button, pleasecomplete with yellow duck) and open the gate into the parkthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. It The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''s a metal gate and we can feel the cold of the metal and hear the squeak as the gate opens and wecrynoceros're on to the gravel path. It's a long, winding path and we can hear the stones scrunch. (think about it!) But there's plenty to play with here, from kicking a ball around to going The pelican who sits on the swings and climbing the steps so that we can come down the slide. There's even his potty changes into a tyre to swing on - and when we've played for 'sm.......'ages' OK, let' s not go there's sure to be an ice cream to enjoy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846435021</amazonuk> Some people are eating!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Chocolate Porridge (Early Reader)1838226834|author=Margaret Mahy and Terry Milne|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Young Timothy has been drummed out of his mother's kitchen by her and his sisters, so he cannot join in with their baking. Instead he goes to Carried Away With the garden and devises chocolate porridge – a lot of mud, plus some other ingredients. But only when he's happy with his craft does he begin to realise that not even calling mud chocolate porridge makes it edible. Oh what is a boy to do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011308</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Barbapapas New HouseCarnival|author=Annette Tison and Talus TaylorEd Boxall|rating=4.5

|summary=At the end It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the [[Barbapapa's Voyage by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor|last Barbapapa book]]good that parents do, our pink protagonist and his lovely wife so the trips out were blessed with the addition of seven new shape-shifting Barbababiesalways so much fun. A house that young boy was already cramped for a couple was literally bursting at the seams as the family of nine squeezed and squashed themselves into every available crevice. Something had going to give; the walls collapsed and out spilled the unfortunate family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833139X</amazonuk>}}carnival with his Grandad, who told him:

{{newreview|title=Where Are You Banana?|author=Sofie Laguna and Craig Smith (Illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Banana. ''It may not 'll be the most obvious name for a dog but it’s the name of Roddy’s pet. Apparently it was Roddy’s first wordbrilliant, spokenjust remember, by coincidence, when the new pup arriveddon't let go of my hand. A tad precocious and serendipitous as first utterances go but I’m going to let that one slip as, dog name aside, 'Where Are You, Banana?' contains some delicious observations of family life captured in both written and painted form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361629</amazonuk>

 {{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

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=What's Your Favourite AnimalRob Keeley|authortitle=Eric CarleCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5

|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

 {{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

|summary=Bear and Hare are friends who like to do activities together''For the big, grownup girls out there, and since Bear REALLY loves fishingthe potty masters in training, that’s what they’re doing today. But will Bear catch "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a fish…or something else?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745393</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eleanor Updale cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and Sarah Horne|title=Itch Scritch Scratch|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary='''Warning: This Book Will Get Under Your Skin'persevering panty pride.''

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|author=Michael Morpurgo Justine Avery and Ross CollinsNaday Meldova|title=All I Said WasEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|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

|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. .

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Watch Out for When Fred the CrocodileSnake Got Squished and Mended|author=Lisa Moroni and Eva ErikssonPeter Cotton

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cuckoo!Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Fiona RobertonEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Pom Justine Avery and PimNaday Meldova|authortitle=Lena Landstrom and Olaf LandstromNo, No, No!

|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?a Bookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579661</amazonuk>}}''No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable.

{{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 timeNo, no, howeverno! Okay, I make an exceptionokay. Yes, because ''Oi Frog!you may.'' is very funny and definitely worth a read, and again, and again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144491085X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Extra Yarn|author=Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Annabelle finds a box That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of yarn, she uses it to knit text is a jumper. There’s some left veritable tardis - so she knits her dog a jumper too. And then one for much bigger on the boy next door. And one for his dog. And still there’s yarn left over. So she goes inside that it appears on and on. She knits jumpers for everyone she knows and then starts knitting for things that don’t even need jumpersthe outside. Pretty soon her dark, dreary town is transformed!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406352489</amazonuk>1638820457

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Say Hello Like ThisThe Farm Shop|author=Mary MurphyDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4.5

|summary=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 perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It''Hellos a farm shop!''<br>''Hi!''<br>''Good day!''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.

There’s lots of ways people can great each other, but what about animals. How do What will they say hellobuy? If you read this book you’ll know who says ''bow-wow'', who says ''tip tap'', who says ''hee haw'' and so on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406347469</amazonuk>

{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|title=A Walk In Paris''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|author=Salvatore Rubbino''To the Maritime Museum''. |rating=5 |genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Welcome Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the City of Lights! Come join a little girl oceans on an ancient sailing ship and her grandad as they spend a magical day exploring the sights of Pariswent back regularly. Follow them as they see One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the Louvre, one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the Eiffel Tower closing bell and Notre Damethe attendant's warning shout. Sit down with them When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the bistro as they tuck into lunchmidst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and then look longingly alongside them as they gaze at the delicious treats in the window of the pâtisserietreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406341525</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Princess Stay AwakeLittle Gold Ted|author=Giles Paley-Phillips Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Adriana J PuglisiSasha Satha

|summary=This cheerful picture book will resonate with parents everywhereOne day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. Princess Layla doesn’t want to go to bed. Every single evening she stays awake insteadIt's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. The cheeky princess ignores every attempt Poor Ted starts to persuade her that spin around and around and is sucked down a good night’s sleep is what childrendrain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, even princessesTed starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, need. She skips around who plucks him out of the bedroomdirty water using his cane, plays which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with her toys without even a yawn in sight. Her exhausted parents have tried everything they can think nice bowl ofbroth...or have they?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861095</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=I Love MumRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Joanna Walsh Mayuri Naidoo and Judi AbbotCaroline Siegal|rating=3.54

|summary=When I went to get dressed this morningRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, there together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, on my only decent post baby brahave been laughing at Remy, was what appeared to be butternut squashcalling him names because he is short and has small eyes. RegurgitatedThey are mean but they are not stupid. Veg I.DThey are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was confirmed by the Daddy of the houseinstigator. Ever helpful, And then he recalled that he had seen our little boy chewing it. It is because of incidents like this that books like ''I Love Mum'' get written, bought gets into trouble at school and read. Without a bit of positive affirmation for Mummies, the human race could die out. Quicklyteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070592</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Miffy at the ZooThe Invisible|author=Dick BrunaTom Percival

|summary=Miffy and daddy are off on an exciting day tripThis is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. They’re catching Isobel lived with her parents in a train house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the zoo! Aren’t they lucky? They see zebras and monkeys and giraffes. What a lovely day they have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120821</amazonuk>}}heating on:

{{newreview|title=Millie Shares|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It's a perennial problem for parents of little ones - how to get them to share. When my daughter was little she used to hover around 'Ice curled across the doors inside of the toy cupboard, hoping to be first in the queue to get her hands on a dolly pushchair... there are never enough dolly pushchairs it seems! Different parents react in different ways. Some see their little darling snatching a toy from another child and immediately leap in and start the 'share!' conversation. Others laugh window and say '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 in crept up the corner because someone took of the yellow ball from herbedpost. Anyway, if you're having problems with the idea of sharing then try this sweet story!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140526408X</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=The Beatles|author=Mick Manning family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and Brita Granstrom|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn''The Beatles'' begins with t afford the childhood of John Lennon at rent for the end of the second world war. The first illustration seems house and they had to convey and infant John twisting and shouting on his way move to 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 far side of the passengers and driver as John plays an old harmonica for hours on the buscity. Some This part of the passengers look desperate to escapecity was cold, but the driver is so impressed he gives John a better harmonicasad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804519</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Perfect HugNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Joanna Walsh and Judi AbbottOne Night in Beartown

|summary=Who doesn’t like a nice hug? Hugs Many children have an obsession and cuddles are something you know from birth are niceSandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, and unlike is obsessed with kisses you don’t have to worry bears. She collects books about Aunty Florence’s smelly breath or wet slobberingbears. In this bookHer favourite toy is Berisford, our unnameda teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, panda-shaped hero is she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to find the perfect hugbear statue outside. Along the way he tries big hugs and small hugs and prickly hugs and tickly hugsEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, but none are quite righta colourful painted bear that lives at her school. Can he find the one he’s looking for? Is there a secret to the perfect hug?She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471120058</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]