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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Big Splash!Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=A H Benjamin Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Jon Lycett-SmithIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=The forest animals are all quietly minding When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their own business whenlives 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 nostrils. (Please don't try this at homeDAit won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-DUMP! DAlolly -DUMP! DA-DUMP! Something big causes and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the ground to shaketangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, the trees to tremble Nester Nook and the rocks to rattleGranny Cranny. It was a terrible noise!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428310</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=When Angus Met AlvinOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Sue PickfordChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=Angus is not like other aliensKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. He is On top of the ice was a peace-loving little fellowpolar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, who likes nothing better than sitting in his garden watching the flowers grow bear woke and sipping with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a nice cup of tea. Unfortunatelyrun for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one day, a strange spaceship crash lands in his garden apple and out pops a cheeky, hyperactive green alien called Alvin who is rather a show-offthen another. It’s time for Angus He obviously needed to teach Alvin be taken home on the bus and given a lesson about mannersgood meal and somewhere to sleep. Can the two aliens put their differences aside and become friends in the end What else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847803040</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Secrets of the Seashore|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa Nassner|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=This book starts in a rock pool. It’s not a boring, quiet, calm place, though, it’s bustling with life, and with every page that turns we learn more about the mysterious creatures that live within it. You might not see them at first, but with a hint of magic they appear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401105</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1913839656|title=TillyLet's At Home HolidayCelebrate Being Different|author=Gillian HibbsLainey Dee
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|summary=Tariq is going to IndiaTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. Chanel is going to Spain. And Paris, He packed two pairs of course, is going dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to Parisshow his grandmother. Poor Tilly. She’s not going anywhere. Not even She had promised to Grandma’s. Mum thinks that they can still enjoy themselves at home. Tilly’s not so sure. Can a visit take him to the library, Friday Night Club at the swimming poollocal community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, the park his only friend was his mum and a market really he wondered why that could be as much fun as a proper holiday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184643596X</amazonuk>. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The Ice BearToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Jackie MorrisAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Long, long ago in 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 mists side of time the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in an icy the toy shop window which would help David - and barren landscape a bear gives birth was happy to use the coins from her money box to two cubspay for it as cash was tight at home. While curled Gradually, David learned to stand up close together , use the raven tricks bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bear bus, now damaged and steals one of rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the cubs awayexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Christmas Doll (The mother bear grieves Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and never forgets nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her lossfinal destination. However She needn't have worried though as she went to the raven drops the bundle in the path home of a hunter Mr and he Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and his wife discover a longed for childbegan to enjoy her life. Seven years pass She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and the child wanders from his home when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and finds himself back in Mr Russell put the land of decorations on the bearsChristmas tree. He loves both families and both families love him so they must find a way to resolve this dilemma and learn to live together in harmony The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804578</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=This Is Me EatingSqueakily Baby|author=Neal LaytonBeth Webb
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|summary=Babies Much as mothers love books and their babies love eating, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so a book about eating is bound tired but he can't - or won't - go to be a hit with the toddler brigadesleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. This book comes The sea offers to life help. It rocks Baby gently and the moment you pick it up waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and feel like someone is watching youhave the sound perfectly. As the cover baby’s The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes roll ominously from side . Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to side you feel a frisson of excitementhappen next. What more fun is hidden within the pages?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406349445</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Boom, Baby, Boom, Boom!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Margaret Mahy and Margaret ChamberlainBriony May Smith
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|summary=Aeroplane noises, choo-choo sounds, demonstrations Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of mouth opening wide. I’ve heard them all suggested nearly getting squished as she tried to help with weaning reluctant baby eaterscross the Old Oak Road. Never though, has it crossed my mind She wrote to bang the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a drum set whilst lunch time is in sessionreply. Not even at my lowest point, Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when I made there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the rookie error benefits of crouching to pick the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up dropped food enabling baby something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to lovingly ruffle my hair start with his sweet, tiny, but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Weetabix concreted fingers, did this occur Hedgehog was even trained up to meprovide a safe path overnight. Obviously I’m not as cool a Mama as the Mama in 'Boom, Baby, Boom Boom!'…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804101</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=ShhLeilong's Too Long! We Have a Plan|author=Chris HaughtonJulia Liu and Bei Lynn
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|summary=When four friends go out together to hunt a bird they have a specific plan in mind Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to how go downstairs – they will do simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it. ? One What could be a more fun way of the friends, howevergoing to school? There is a problem, though. Leilong isn't really happy in on the plan city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and is just tagging along for the fun of it, – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he finds himself getting shushed along can't be the way each time he shouts out 'hello birdy!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406342327</amazonuk>bus anymore.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=So What!Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=Tracey Trussell and Neil PriceDavid Elliott|rating=3.54
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|summary=Girls can be horrid sometimes. I love a good board book! You know how ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it is - one girl in 's for the playground says child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite innocently that their mum bought them some new sandals at different from each one. We have the weekend elephant who dons a tutu - and another, louder, bigger, bossier one says becomes a ''balletphant'so what!' . And The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then perhaps every time that quieter girl opens her mouth to say something the other girl dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is there to shout her down with a 'so what'crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' This book captures those feelingsOK, and demonstrates a way to deal with any let'so what' nonsense that comes your ways not go there Some people are eating!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428191</amazonuk>
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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=Barbapapa's Ark|author=Annette Tison and Talus Taylor|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary='It'Barbapapa’s Ark'' is the fourth book in the popular series about a shape-shifting pink blobll be brilliant, his wife and seven children. It follows on from the previous bookjust remember, 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 don't let go of pollutionmy hand. 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>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=A First Book of NatureB09MYXSRV4|author=Nicola Davies and Mark Hearld|rating=5|genretitle=ChildrenOtter'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. Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: 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 young, but illustrations that will transfix and amaze – introducing ‘A First Book of Nature’ written by Nicola Davies Cherolachian Tortoise and illustrated by Mark Hearld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140634916X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=GrandmaHare|author=Jessica ShepherdCordellya Smith|rating=54
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|summary=Oscar loves his Grandma very much 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 strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so it’s scary that he could see the present ''and frightening when she starts forgetting things and acting differently'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. She has He was also jealous which was how he came to go and live somewhere else be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it smells funny and is full of new peoplecame about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846435978</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Way To The ZooRob Keeley|authortitle=John BurninghamCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=It’s easy to lie in bed and see shadows on the wall Lily loves eating fruit and imagine what they could bevegetables. I still do it now though I know better than to think something that looks likeShe likes carrots, saybroccoli, a door in the wallcabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, might be a portal Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to another universeeat. SylvieOne day, thoughpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, wants to double check when SHE sees what looks like a door and it’s just as well she doeswho tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, because lo and behold it IS a door and it DOES lead somewhere. It goes all Lily checks with the way to the zoo! All the animals look nice teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and friendly so because it’s getting late and she has school vegetables, like carrots, grow in the morningground. Jordan says, Sylvie heads back "I did try to bed tell her, Miss!" and invites a little bear to come with her for the night. She has her own real live teddy. What funeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406348406</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=Mrs. MoYou Can's Monstert Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Paul BeavisJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=What would you do if you answered ''For the door one daybig, only to find a mini monster standing grownup girls out there? Most of us wold probably weep , the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a little and find somewhere to hide, but not cry (the brave Mrs Mo. She appears to know this monster big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and will do anything to keep him entertainedpersevering panty pride. Will he help round 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>''}}
And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Day At The AirportJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Richard ScarryEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Father Cat was taking the kids sailingToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, but it started find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to rain so they had to call it offtalk about and joke about, that is. On But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the way homewrong time. In class, thoughsay, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, they bump into Rudolph Von Flugel who suggests a detour to with the airport as there’s lots of things to see and do therefamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007531133</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Let's Go, Baby-oWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Janet McLean Justine Avery and Andrew McLeanSeema Amjad
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|summary=Hey''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! Baby has woken up in his cot and wants to play. Luckily his singing, dancing, jiggling and bouncing older cousin '' is there to spring him free and start the fun. They leap and chant and jump and sing. Meanwhile, latest release in the garden, ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the rest pain out of the family, the pets potty training children and the wildlife are having replace it with some drama of their ownfun. Baby and his dancing cousin pause to look out the windowIt's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. Their observations inspire them to move and sing again .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361319</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dom Conlon and Nicola AndersonB07GZ81J7C|title=I Will Eat The Moon (Tiny When Fred the Giant)Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton
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|summary=We [[I Am A Giant (Tiny the Giant) by Dom Conlon and Nicola Anderson|first]] met Tiny when he was but a young giant and determined to prove that he was ''big''Meet Fred. When all seemed lost he was proved Well, actually, you're going to be right and the day (as well as his pride) was savedmeeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. This time heBut I'm getting ahead of myself: I's taken on an d better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even bigger taskthose of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He knows arrived as a present in a box with holes so that giants need big things he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to eat and he's got his eyes on the moonextent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. Actually, he's licking his lips, but it doesnFred didn't impress the moon.have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JCZS6Y6</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Convertible SpaceshipJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Claire Philip and Belinda GallagherEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=When is a bookCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, not a bookwhy shouldn't it be? When it is also a playmat and also a spaceship. With ‘Convertible Spaceship’ you get We all three; a book that folds out into a playmat or into a spaceshiphave to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Can I hear Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the excitement from heresky?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782094970</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Love Monster Justine Avery and the Last ChocolateNaday Meldova|authortitle=Rachel Bright|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Love Monster has been away on holidayNo, and he's just come home with that 'holiday's over' feelingNo, only to find that someone has left a large box of chocolates on his front doorstepNo! Who left them there? And why? And would it be okay to eat them by himself or, actually, should he really be sharing them with his friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007540302</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Never ask a Dinosaur to Dinner|author=Gareth Edwards and Guy Parker-Rees
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|summary=I don't expect you've ever thought about asking a dinosaur to dinner. In case it ever crosses your mind to do so, this helpful book informs you of They say the best picture books are the probable consequences of such a rash actionsimplest ones. It will also prove helpful should you And nothing could be thinking about using a tiger as a towel ortruer of this latest from Justine Avery, heaven forbid, if you wondered if it would be okay to share your toothbrush with a shark!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136933</amazonuk>}}Bookbag favourite.
{{newreview|author=Stephen Cheetham|title=Off to the Park!|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It's a nice day and we're off to the park. Shoes on first - tie the laces - and then we're off down the street. We go over the road by the crossing (press the buttonNo, No, please) and open the gate into the park. It's a metal gate and we can feel the cold of the metal and hear the squeak as the gate opens and we're on to the gravel path. ItNo!'s a long, winding path and we can hear the stones scrunch. But there's plenty to play with here, from kicking a ball is based around to going on the swings and climbing the steps so that we can come down the slide. There's even a tyre to swing on - and when we've played for ''ages'' there's sure to be an ice cream to enjoysimplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846435021</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Chocolate Porridge (Early Reader)|author=Margaret Mahy and Terry Milne|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Young Timothy has been drummed out of his mother's kitchen by her and his sisters'No, no, no! Okay, so he cannot join in with their bakingokay. Instead he goes to the garden and devises chocolate porridge – a lot of mudYes, plus some other ingredientsyou may. 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 House|author=Annette Tison and Talus Taylor|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=At the end of the [[BarbapapaThat's Voyage by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor|last Barbapapa book]]it! But, our pink protagonist and his lovely wife were blessed with like all the addition best picture books, this tiny snippet of seven new shapetext is a veritable tardis -shifting Barbababies. A house so much bigger on the inside that 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 to give; the walls collapsed and out spilled the unfortunate family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833139X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Where Are You Banana?|author=Sofie Laguna and Craig Smith (Illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Banana. It may not be the most obvious name for a dog but it’s the name of Roddy’s pet. Apparently it was Roddy’s first word, spoken, by coincidence, when appears on the new pup arrived. A tad precocious and serendipitous as first utterances go but I’m going to let that one slip as, dog name aside, 'Where Are You, Banana?' contains some delicious observations of family life captured in both written and painted formoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743361629</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Mungo Monkey has a Birthday PartyThe Farm Shop|author=Lydia MonksDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=It’s Mungo Monkey’s birthday which means…Party TimeKirelle 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's a farm shop! From baking But this is a cake to blowing up balloonsfarm 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, he’s so excited to get things organised Kirelle and ready for when his friends arriveSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268662</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=What's Your Favourite Animal|author=Eric Carle|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I love that this book is written by ''Eric Carle and friends''. There’s something rather lovely about the idea of a group of authors and illustrators, hanging out and deciding to collaborate on a project together. Unlike the usual two-person job, 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 explain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356514</amazonuk>will they buy?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Bear Sadie and Hare Go Fishingthe Sea Dogs|author=Emily GravettMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=Bear and Hare are friends who like to do activities togetherSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, and since Bear REALLY loves fishing, that’s her mind never on what they’re she should be doing today. But will Bear catch a fish…or something else?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745393</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eleanor Updale She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and Sarah Horne|title=Itch Scritch Scratch|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary='''Warning: This Book Will Get Under Your Skin'''she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
Well''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, that's what it says on '<br>''To the back of the book and I can promise that itMaritime Museum''s true. You might like to wear a pair of those cotton mittens for babies whilst you readHer imagination was fired. It will feel awkward, but youShe'll feel d love to sail the benefit, honestlyoceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. But - IOne day she fell asleep under a glass case (it'm getting ahead of myself. You want to know about s the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the bookattendant's warning shout. ItWhen she woke (hard floors don's t make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a family story - world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and the family in question are head licetreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122946</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Ross Collins1782227741|title=All I Said WasLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Our young friend looked up at the window and saw a pigeon balancing on the window sill and our young friend had a thought. ''I'd like to be you,'' he said, dreaming of flying off to anywhere that he liked. The pigeon was quite happy to change places: lying on the bed reading a book seemed like a good idea, so the two changed places. Our young hero thought it was great as he flew off towards the sea:
 
''I want to be a bird all my life''.
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{{newreview
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|summary=All One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is not well in the happy village of Spottybottom as the Big, Bad Knight has stolen Granny’s magic wandswirling. Hector wants Poor Ted starts to help his Granny get her wand back but there spin around and around and is sucked down a problem because Hector is drain on the side of the tiniest boy street. Finding himself down in the village sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the thief is quite possibly attention of Reg the biggest and sewer rat, who plucks him out of the baddest knight arounddirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. However, perhaps Granny should not despair because Hector has Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a plan!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407138480</amazonuk>nice bowl of broth.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Watch Out for the CrocodileRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Lisa Moroni Mayuri Naidoo and Eva ErikssonCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=Little Tora Remy is going on a very special trip with her Dadfeeling miserable. Trekking, camping and animal spotting are on Tora’s agendaHe's let himself down ''again''. No more workThe school bully Jayden, coffee drinking or talking on together with his mobile for Dad. Wellsidekicks Ryan and Brandon, perhaps not much talking on his mobile anyway. First thoughhave been laughing at Remy, there calling him names because he is some boring stuff; buying supplies at the supermarket short and making the long car journey to the foresthas small eyes. When will They are mean but they start are not stupid. They are careful to have fun? And where are those wild animals? A wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit of imagination is called for from both father further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and daughter the teachers don't believe him when he tries to make the trip a memorable oneexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579890</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Cuckoo!The Invisible|author=Fiona RobertonTom Percival
|rating=5
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|summary=We do love Fiona Roberton's books in our houseThis is the story of Isobel, a passion that started with [[Wanted: The Perfect Pet by Fiona Roberton|Wanted: The Perfect Pet]]little girl who made a big difference. This new story, about fat little cuckooIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, is just as delightful as because her others, parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and one that Icrept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn've sneakily read without t go to the children, once cinema or twiceon holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, just so that I can properly enjoy it by myself!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912615</amazonuk>sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Pom Nick Jones and PimSi Clark|authortitle=Lena Landstrom and Olaf LandstromOne Night in Beartown
|rating=4
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|summary=When Pom Many children have an obsession and Pim go Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out for of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the day things start off wellbear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, but bad luck comes their waya colourful painted bear that lives at her school. Can they look She even has bears on the bright side of every situation, even when they feel tripped up time and time again?her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579661</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{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 Move on to be faced with such a 'poem' to read. This time, however, I make an exception, because ''Oi Frog!'' is very funny and definitely worth a read, and again, and again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144491085X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]