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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This Is Me Eatingtime round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Neal LaytonWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Babies love books When we first meet Birpus and babies love eating, so a book about eating is bound to be a hit with Bulbus they're running for their lives in the toddler brigadeForest of Fine Repute. This book comes to life Their greatest fear has come about: the moment you pick it up and feel like someone Sour Milk Dragon is watching youchasing them. As the cover baby’s eyes roll ominously He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from side to side you feel his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a frisson ladder of excitementmoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. What more fun is hidden within They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the pages?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406349445</amazonuk>tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Boom, Baby, Boom, Boom!On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Margaret Mahy Chris Green and Margaret ChamberlainJenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=Aeroplane noisesKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, choo-choo soundsbored but warm, demonstrations or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of mouth opening widesilvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. I’ve heard them all suggested to help On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with weaning reluctant baby eaterswobbly legs moved from the ice. Never though, has Kit was all for making a run for it crossed my mind to bang a drum set whilst lunch time is in session. Not even at my lowest point, when I made but Teal knew that the rookie error of crouching bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to pick up dropped food enabling baby to lovingly ruffle my hair with his sweet, tiny, be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and Weetabix concreted fingers, did this occur somewhere to mesleep. Obviously I’m not as cool a Mama as the Mama in 'Boom, Baby, Boom Boom!'…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804101</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Shh! We Have a Plan1913839656|author=Chris Haughton|rating=4|genretitle=For Sharing|summary=When four friends go out together to hunt a bird they have a specific plan in mind as to how they will do it. One of the friends, however, isnLet't really in on the plan and is just tagging along for the fun of it, and he finds himself getting shushed along the way each time he shouts out 'hello birdy!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406342327</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=So What!s Celebrate Being Different|author=Tracey Trussell and Neil PriceLainey Dee
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|summary=Girls can be horrid sometimes. You know how it is - one girl in the playground says quite innocently that their mum bought them some new sandals at Todd was excited about spending the weekend and anotherwith his grandmother, louder, bigger, bossier one says 'so what!' not least because she made the best beetle juice. And He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then perhaps every time that quieter girl opens her mouth gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to say something the other girl is there Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to shout her down with a 'so what!' make new friends. This book captures those feelingsAt home, his only friend was his mum and demonstrates a way to deal with any 'so what' nonsense he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that comes your way!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428191</amazonuk>it might be because he looked different.
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 {{newreview|title=Barbapapa's Ark|author=Annette Tison and Talus Taylor|rating=5|genre=Emerging ReadersFrontpage|summaryisbn=''Barbapapa’s Ark'' is the fourth book in the popular series about a shape-shifting pink blob, his wife and seven children. It follows on from the previous book, in which Barbapapa and his family built themselves a beautiful house in a peaceful valley. One day, after a picnic, the family decide to take a leisurely ride along the river, but are horrified to see sick and injured animals suffering from the effects of pollution. Over time, more and more animals come to Barbapapa for help. He decides that the only way to teach the humans a lesson is to take the animals to a new, green planet where they will be safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331381</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1529504775|title=A First Book of NatureThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Nicola Davies Amy Sparkes and Mark HearldKatie Hickey|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-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 pants4. However, there are books that transcend this and can appeal to both groups. Books that may have slightly dry reading for the very young, but illustrations that will transfix 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 Shepherd|rating=5
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|summary=Oscar loves his Grandma 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 much so it’s scary difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and frightening when she starts forgetting things and acting differentlywas happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. She has Gradually, David learned to go stand up, use the bus for support, and live somewhere else walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it smells funny and is full of new people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846435978</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Way To Christmas Doll (The ZooRepair Shop Stories)|author=John BurninghamAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=It’s easy to lie Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in bed 1939 and see shadows on the wall and imagine what they could nervous about how she would be. I still do it now though I know better than greeted when she got to think something that looks like, say, a door in the wall, might be a portal to another universeher final destination. Sylvie, She needn't have worried though, wants to double check when SHE sees what looks like a door and it’s just as well she does, because lo and behold it IS a door and it DOES lead somewhere. It goes all the way went to the zoo! All the animals look nice home of Mr and friendly so because it’s getting late and she has school in the morningMrs Russell, Sylvie heads back to bed and invites a little bear who couldn't have been kinder to come with her for the night. She has even had her own real live teddy. What fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348406</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Mrsroom - all to herself. Mo's Monster|author=Paul Beavis|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=What would you do if you answered the door one day, only to find a mini monster standing there? Most of us wold probably weep a little Gradually she relaxed and find somewhere began to hide, but not the brave Mrs Moenjoy her life. She appears 'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to know this monster Christmas Eve Susan and will do anything to keep him entertainedMr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. Will he help round The best surprise happened the house? 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>following morning.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=A Day At The AirportSqueakily Baby|author=Richard ScarryBeth Webb
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|summary=Father Cat was taking the kids sailingMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but it started he can't - or won't - go to rain so they had sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to call it offhelp. On It rocks Baby gently and the way homewaves sing ''hush, thoughhush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, they bump into Rudolph Von Flugel who suggests la lay...'' And for a detour moment it seems to the airport have worked as there’s lots of things Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to see and do therehappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531133</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Let's Go, Baby-o!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Janet McLean and Andrew McLeanBriony May Smith
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|summary=Hey! Baby has woken up in his cot and wants Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to playcross the Old Oak Road. Luckily his singing, dancing, jiggling and bouncing older cousin is there She wrote to spring him free and start the funmayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. They leap and chant and jump and sing. Meanwhile, in the garden, Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the rest benefits of the family, lollipop lady at the pets school crossing and the wildlife are having some drama of their owndecided that she would set up something similar herself. Baby Her uniform and his dancing cousin pause lollipop stick were both a little amateur to look out start with but the windowbenefits were obvious. Their observations inspire them All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to move and sing againprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361319</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dom Conlon and Nicola Anderson1776574338|title=I Will Eat The Moon (Tiny the Giant)Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5
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|summary=We [[I Am A Giant (Tiny Every morning Leilong, the Giant) by Dom Conlon and Nicola Anderson|first]] met Tiny when brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he was but a young giant and determined to prove that he was ''big''goes. When all seemed lost he was proved Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to be right go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and the day (as well as slide down his pride) was savedneck. This time heIt's taken on an even bigger taskperfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. He knows that giants need big things Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to eat be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's got his eyes on the moonlonger than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. Actually, The school decides that he's licking his lips, but it doesncan't impress be the moon..bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JCZS6Y6</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Convertible SpaceshipBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Claire Philip and Belinda GallagherDavid Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=When I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a bookniche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, not a book? see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. When it is also We have the elephant who dons a playmat tutu - and also becomes a spaceship''balletphant''. With ‘Convertible Spaceship’ you get all three; The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a book that folds out into ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a playmat or ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a spaceship''sm.... ...'' OK, let's not go there Can I hear the excitement from here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782094970</amazonuk>Some people are eating!
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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=Love Monster and the Last Chocolate|author=Rachel Bright|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Love Monster has been away on holiday, and he's just come home with that 'holiday's overIt' feeling, only to find that someone has left a large box of chocolates on his front doorstep! Who left them there? And why? And would it ll be okay to eat them by himself orbrilliant, actuallyjust remember, should he really be sharing them with his friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007540302</amazonuk>don't let go of my hand.''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Never ask a Dinosaur to DinnerOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Gareth Edwards and Guy Parker-ReesCordellya Smith
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|summary=I donWhen 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't expect you've ever thought about asking a dinosaur the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to dinneruse it well. In case it ever crosses your mind He liked to do so, this helpful book informs you of the probable consequences of such a rash actiontrick other animals. It will He was also prove helpful should you jealous which was how he came to be thinking about using in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a tiger fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as a towel or, heaven forbid, if they seem. I'll tell you wondered if how it would be okay to share your toothbrush with a shark!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136933</amazonuk>came about.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen CheethamRob Keeley|title=Off to the ParkCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=It's a nice day and we're off to the park. Shoes on first - tie the laces - Lily loves eating fruit and then we're off down the streetvegetables. We go over the road by the crossing (press the buttonShe likes carrots, broccoli, please) cabbage and open the gate into the parkaubergines. It's a metal gate When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and we can feel the cold of the metal and hear the squeak as the gate opens and we're on how nice to the gravel patheat. It's a longOne day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, winding path and we can hear the stones scrunchwho tells her that carrots grow on trees. But there's plenty to play Infuriated, Lily checks with herethe teacher, from kicking a ball around to going who explains that fruits grow on the swings trees and climbing the steps so that we can come down vegetables, like carrots, grow in the slideground. There's even a tyre Jordan says, "I did try to swing on - tell her, Miss!" and when we've played for ''ages'' there's sure to be an ice cream to enjoyeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846435021</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=''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 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= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Chocolate Porridge Everybody Toots! (Early ReaderEverybody Potties!)|author=Margaret Mahy and Terry Milne|rating=4.5
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|summary=Young Timothy has been drummed out of his motherToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn's kitchen by her and his sisters, so he cannot join in with their bakingt find them irresistibly funny. Instead he goes Funny to the garden talk about and devises chocolate porridge – a lot of mudjoke about, plus some other ingredientsthat is. But only horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when heeveryone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's happy latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with his craft the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does he begin to realise that not even calling mud chocolate porridge makes it edible. Oh what is a boy to do?: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444011308</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Barbapapas New HouseWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Annette Tison Justine Avery and Talus TaylorSeema Amjad
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|summary=At ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the end ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the [[Barbapapa's Voyage by Annette Tison pain out of potty training children and Talus Taylor|last Barbapapa book]], our pink protagonist and his lovely wife were blessed replace it with the addition of seven new shape-shifting Barbababiessome fun. A house that was already cramped for It's a couple was literally bursting at the seams worthy aim, as the family of nine squeezed and squashed themselves into every available creviceany frustrated parent will tell you. Something had to give; the walls collapsed and out spilled the unfortunate family .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833139X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Where Are You Banana?When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Sofie Laguna and Craig Smith (Illustrator)Peter Cotton
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|summary=BananaMeet Fred. It may not Well, actually, you're going to be the most meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious name for very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a dog but it’s the name snake and even those of Roddy’s petus who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. Apparently it was Roddy’s first word, spoken, by coincidenceHe arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the new pup arrivedproblem started. A tad precocious and serendipitous as first utterances go but I’m going to let that one slip as, dog name aside, Fred didn'Where Are You, Banana?' contains some delicious observations of family life captured in both written and painted formt have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361629</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mungo Monkey has a Birthday PartyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Lydia MonksEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=It’s Mungo Monkey’s birthday which means…Party Time! From baking a cake Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to blowing up balloons, he’s so excited learn about our bodily functions just as we have to get things organised and ready for learn about everything else when his friends arrivewe are small.Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405268662</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=What's Your Favourite AnimalJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Eric CarleNo, No, No!|rating=4.5
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|summary=I love that this book is written by ''Eric Carle and friends''They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. There’s something rather lovely about the idea And nothing could be truer of a group of authors and illustrators, hanging out and deciding to collaborate on a project together. Unlike the usual two-person jobthis latest from Justine Avery, though, where the result is typically as seamless as if it came from a single pen, this is an eclectic mix of pages that very clearly come from various minds. Let me explainBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356514</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Bear and Hare Go Fishing|author=Emily Gravett|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bear and Hare are friends who like to do activities together''No, and since Bear REALLY loves fishingNo, that’s what they’re doing todayNo!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. 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'No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.''
Well, thatThat's what it says on the back of the book and I can promise that it's true. You might ! But, like to wear a pair of those cotton mittens for babies whilst you read. It will feel awkward, but you'll feel all the benefitbest picture books, honestly. But - I'm getting ahead this tiny snippet of myself. You want to know about the book. It's text is a family story veritable tardis - and so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the family in question are head liceoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122946</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Ross Collins194812467X|title=All I Said WasThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyFor Sharing|summary=Our young Kirelle and her best friend looked up at Sam the window cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and saw 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 pigeon balancing on big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the window sill stallholders and our young friend had a thoughtcustomers are farmyard animals. ''I'd like to be youThere are sheep and ducks and cows,'' he saidgoats and chickens, dreaming of flying off to anywhere that he likedand even some mice. The pigeon was quite happy to change places: lying on the bed reading a book seemed like a good ideaExcited, so the two changed placesKirelle and Sam go shopping. 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>What will they buy?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Hector and the Big Bad Knight0995647895|author=Alex T Smith|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=All is not well in the happy village of Spottybottom as the Big, Bad Knight has stolen Granny’s magic wand. Hector wants to help his Granny get her wand back but there is a problem because Hector is the tiniest boy in the village Sadie and the thief is quite possibly the biggest and the baddest knight around. However, perhaps Granny should not despair because Hector has a plan!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407138480</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Watch Out for the CrocodileSea Dogs|author=Lisa Moroni Maureen Duffy and Eva ErikssonAnita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Little Tora is going on Sadie's mother always said that she was a very special trip with dreamer, her Dad. Trekking, camping and animal spotting are on Tora’s agenda. No more work, coffee drinking or talking mind never on his mobile for Dad. Well, perhaps not much talking on his mobile anywaywhat she should be doing. First though, there is some boring stuff; buying supplies She lives by the River Thames at the supermarket Greenwich and making the long car journey she loves to 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 make the trip a memorable onespend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579890</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|title=Cuckoo!''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|author=Fiona Roberton''To the Maritime Museum''. |rating=5 |genre=For Sharing|summary=We do Her imagination was fired. She'd love Fiona Robertonto sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's books in our house, a passion that started with [[Wanted: The Perfect Pet by Fiona Roberton|Wanted: The Perfect Pet]]the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. This new story, about fat little cuckoo, is just as delightful as her others, and one that IWhen she woke (hard floors don've sneakily read without t make comfy beds) she was in the childrenmidst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, once or twicepirates, just so that I can properly enjoy it by myself!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912615</amazonuk>mermaids and treasure.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Pom and PimLittle Gold Ted|author=Lena Landstrom Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Olaf LandstromSasha Satha
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|summary=When Pom One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and Pim go out for the day things start off well, but bad luck comes their waywater is swirling. Can they look Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the bright side of every situationthe street. Finding himself down in the sewer, even when they feel tripped 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 old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up time and time again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579661</amazonuk>with a nice bowl of broth.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Oi Frog!Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Kes Gray Mayuri Naidoo and Jim FieldCaroline Siegal|rating=54
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|summary=Normally I would shy away from any book rhyming frog with log and cat with hat and hare with chairRemy is feeling miserable...normally it would fill me with a sense of dread to be faced with such a He's let himself down ''again'poem' to read. The school bully Jayden, This timetogether with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, however, I make an exceptionhave been laughing at Remy, calling him names because ''Oi Frog!'' he is very funny short and definitely worth a readhas small eyes. They are mean but 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 other kids are around. So, and againwhen Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144491085X</amazonuk>the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Extra YarnThe Invisible|author=Mac Barnett and Jon KlassenTom Percival
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|summary=When Annabelle finds a box This is the story of yarnIsobel, she uses it to knit a jumperlittle girl who made a big difference. There’s some left so she knits Isobel lived with her dog parents in a house - a jumper too. And then one for very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the boy next door. And one for his dog. And still there’s yarn left over. So she goes heating 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=''Hello!''<br>''Hi!''<br>''Good day!Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.''
There’s lots of ways people can great The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other, but what about animalsand they were happy. How do Then the day came when they say hello? If you read this book you’ll know who says ''bow-wow'', who says ''tip tap'', who says ''hee haw'couldn' t afford the rent for the house and so on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406347469</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Walk In Paris|author=Salvatore Rubbino|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Welcome they had to move to the City far side of Lights! Come join a little girl and her grandad as they spend a magical day exploring the sights of Pariscity. Follow them as they see This part of the Louvrecity was cold, the Eiffel Tower sad and Notre Dame. Sit down with them in the bistro as they tuck into lunch, lonely and then look longingly alongside them as they gaze at the delicious treats in the window of the pâtisserieIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406341525</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Princess Stay AwakeNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Giles Paley-Phillips and Adriana J PuglisiOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=This cheerful picture book will resonate Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with parents everywherebears. Princess Layla doesn’t want She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to go to bedthe bear statue outside. Every single evening morning she stays awake instead. The cheeky princess ignores every attempt says hello to persuade Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her that a good night’s sleep is what children, even princesses, needschool. She skips around the even has bears on her bedroom, plays with her toys without even a yawn in sight. Her exhausted parents have tried everything they can think of...or have they?wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848861095</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|title=I Love Mum|author=Joanna Walsh and Judi Abbot|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When I went to get dressed this morning, there, Move on my only decent post baby bra, was what appeared to be butternut squash. Regurgitated. Veg I.D. was confirmed by the Daddy of the house. Ever helpful, 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 and read. Without a bit of positive affirmation for Mummies, the human race could die out. Quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070592</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]