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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=Two GiantsThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael ForemanAlbanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=In this reissue of a book When we first published meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in 1967, the Two Giants live in a nice world where things are lovely and they get along brilliantlyForest of Fine Repute. What fun it must be to have your best friend around all Their greatest fear has come about: the timeSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Until He's right behind them, that isspewing hot, they have a fightsour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well. Before they can think about reconciling) Fortunately, they are separated were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and forced to live apart. Their animosity grows. Will it be possible vines was lowered for them , they escaped. They climbed up to ever be friends again? Could something as simple the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and insignificant as sharing a pair of socks make it all ok?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351768</amazonuk>Granny Cranny.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Teddy BedtimeOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Georgie BirkettChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=5
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|summary=I haven’t much hands on experience with young children Kit and bedtimeTeal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but from various alleys warm, or frozen cold and avenues of my family I have building sand sculptures on a seen snowy beach when a few do and do notslarge slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. One thing I have learnt is that routine can be a vital tool in getting On top of the ice was a child to bedpolar bear. Whilst one set of Nephews come up to you and ask to go to bed at 7pmAs the ice bumped onto the sand, the other are bouncing off bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the walls at 1amice. Children’s books can be Kit was all for making a great way run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to entertain be taken home on the bus and teach younger children given a bedtime routine good meal and ''Teddy'' ''Bedtime'' by Georgie Birkett may just be the best example I have seensomewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440414</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Hilda and the Black HoundLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Luke PearsonLainey Dee|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsFor Sharing|summary=Hilda and Todd was excited about spending the Black Hound is weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the fourth book in the “Hildafolk” series, each best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of which is a self-contained tale about a highly inquisitive little girl dungarees and his favourite hat and her adventuresthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. This time Hilda joins She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the Sparrow Scouts local community centre and befriends a house spirit whilst in the meantime a mysterious beast stalks the town of TrolbergTodd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Baby's Got The BluesToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Carol Diggory ShieldsAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=I’ve lost count 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 number of times I’ve park but David couldn't - he'd been toting my baby born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in my arms, pushing him in his buggy or carrying him in his baby back pack the toy shop window which would help David - and strangers have remarked ''ooh – lovely! I wish I was a baby!'' happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. WellGradually, do you think babies have David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it easy? Really? Well. Many decades later, listen up because Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the apple cheekedRepair Shop, down in hoping that the mouth hero of ''Baby’s Got The Blues'' is going to set you rightexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351547</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Little Frog's Tadpole TroubleThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Tatyana FeeneyAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=35
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|summary=I’m Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the little sisterhome of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. I never She even had her own room - all to deal herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the threat of an impending arrival baking and when it came to unsettle my world, but I can’t imagine it’s always fun. There are, of course, lots of books on Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the subject, seeing as it’s a big topic that affects lots of families every day, but here’s a new book decorations on the marketChristmas tree. Can it add anything to The best surprise happened the existing stack of ''Becoming a big sibling'' books?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192735543</amazonuk>following morning.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Macavity,the Mystery CatSqueakily Baby|author=T S Eliot and Arthur RobinsBeth Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=There’s nothing my little boy likes more than to sit down with Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a tome of good poetrysqueakily baby. Currently He's so tired but he is reading T.S. Eliot. Wellcan't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, that’s what I will be telling them down at playgroup anywayhe just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. No need The sea offers to add that it’s not ‘The Wasteland’help. The poem in this volume is actually just one from ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ It rocks Baby gently and features the inimitable scoundrel waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the titlesound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...''Macavity And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308139</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=The Queen's HatA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Steve AntonyBriony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=A naughty gust Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of wind comes along and blows nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the Queen’s hat right off problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her headtail 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. Her Majesty simply cannot be seen bare headed, uniform and so she follows it in hot pursuitlollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444919148</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=The FarmerLeilong's Away! Baa! NeighToo Long!|author=Anne Vittur KennedyJulia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=Flobba dob. Eh-oh. Or should I just stop Every morning Leilong, the words completely and communicate with a swanee whistle? From the Flowerpot Men to the Teletubbies via brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the Clangerscity, the substitution of ‘real’ words with made picking up language and sounds has always been controversialchildren as he goes. So I’ll level with you straight away and spoil Children who live at the ‘surprise’ top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It'The Farmer’s Away! Baa! Neigh!'s perfect, isn' t it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? by revealing that, bar the titleThere is a problem, there are no proper words in this bookthough. When this book is described as being told 'Leilong isn't happy in the animals’ own wordscity: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he' it means quite literally thats longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. Barks. Hisses. Neighs. Cheeps. And lots of them. For 32 pagesThe school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356530</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Eric the Boy Who Lost His GravityBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Jenni DesmondDavid Elliott
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|summary=Everyone gets angry sometimes. I love a good board book! Maybe all it takes ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is someone queue-jumping, or in the case of my toddler, all aimed at quite a niche market: it takes is 's for the wrong colour cupchild who still enjoys board books (er, or someone playing see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with the words and make something quite different from each one toy in . We have the world that he wants right at that moment! elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The challenge for children growing up buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and for adults too sometimes!) is how to deal then dries off with that angera hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. This story The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about what happens when it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a little boy called Eric gets angry''sm...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053486</amazonuk>....'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=How to Catch a StarCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Oliver JeffersEd Boxall
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|summary=The boy makes various attempts to catch his starIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. He spends most of the day waiting for a star to appear, and when one finally does he tries climbing a tree, or dragging his fatherThey's lifebelt re there to lasso undo all the star down. Each attempt, howevergood that parents do, fails. Finally, down by so the shore, he sees a star that has fallen into the seatrips out were always so much fun. He walks along the beach, hoping that the star will wash up on the sand and, finally, it does! They A young boy and was going to the star walk away togethercarnival with his Grandad, hand in hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007536593</amazonuk>}}who told him:
{{newreview|title=Rex|author=Simon James|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Tyrannosaurus Rex is the scariest dinosaur around. He can pull whole trees out of the ground, crush boulders with his bare claws and chase away the other dinosaurs with his mighty roar! Everything changes one night when he finds an abandoned egg in a cave. A baby dinosaur pops out and decides that T.Rex is his ''DaddaIt'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348228</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Big Splash!Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=A H Benjamin and Jon Lycett-Cordellya Smith
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|summary=The forest When the world was made, the animals are all quietly minding their own business when: DAwere given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence -DUMP! DA-DUMP! DA-DUMP! Something big causes the ground to shakebut, unfortunately, not the trees ability to tremble and the rocks use it well. He liked to rattletrick other animals. It He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a terrible noise!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428310</amazonuk>fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=When Angus Met AlvinRob Keeley|authortitle=Sue PickfordCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Angus is not like other aliens Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. He When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is a peace-loving little fellow, who likes nothing better than sitting in his garden watching the flowers grow keen to explain how good they are for you and sipping a how nice cup of teato eat. Unfortunately, one One day, a strange spaceship crash lands in his garden and out pops a cheekypoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, hyperactive green alien called Alvin who is rather a show-offtells her that carrots grow on trees. It’s time for Angus to teach Alvin a lesson about manners. Can Infuriated, Lily checks with the two aliens put their differences aside teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and become friends vegetables, like carrots, grow in the end?ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847803040</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Secrets of the SeashoreB09FFJF8YS|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa Nassner|ratingtitle=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>}} {{newreview|title=TillyCan's At Home Holidayt Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Gillian HibbsJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=Tariq is going to India. Chanel is going to Spain. And Paris''For the big, grownup girls out there, of coursethe potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is going to Paris. Poor Tilly. She’s not going anywhere. Not even to Grandma’s. Mum thinks that they can still enjoy themselves at home. Tilly’s not so sure. Can a visit to cry (the library, the swimming pool, the park big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and a market really be as much fun as a proper holiday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184643596X</amazonuk>}}persevering panty pride.''
{{newreview
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|summary=Long, long ago in the mists of time in an icy and barren landscape a bear gives birth to two cubs. While curled up close together the raven tricks the bear and steals one of the cubs away. The mother bear grieves and never forgets her loss. However the raven drops the bundle in the path of a hunter and he and his wife discover a longed for child. Seven years pass and the child wanders from his home and finds himself back in the land of the bears. 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.
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And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=This Is Me EatingJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Neal LaytonEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Babies love books and babies love eatingToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, so find us a book child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about eating and joke about, that is bound to be a hit with . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the toddler brigadewrong time. This book comes to life the moment you pick In class, say, when everyone will hear it up and feel like someone is watching everyone will laugh. At you. As Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the cover baby’s eyes roll ominously from side to side you feel a frisson of excitementfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. What more fun is hidden within the pagesEverybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies?Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|amazonukauthor=<amazonuk>1406349445</amazonuk>Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Boom, Baby, Boom, Boom!When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Margaret Mahy and Margaret ChamberlainPeter Cotton
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|summary=Aeroplane noisesMeet Fred. Well, actually, chooyou're going to be meeting Fred-choo sounds, demonstrations of mouth opening wide. I’ve heard them Fred for reasons which will become all suggested to help with weaning reluctant baby eaterstoo obvious very quickly. Never though, has it crossed my mind to bang But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a drum set whilst lunch time bit more about Fred. Fred is in session. Not a snake and even at my lowest point, when I made the rookie error those of crouching us who have a phobia about snakes are going to pick up dropped food enabling baby warm to lovingly ruffle my hair him. He arrived as a present in a box with his sweet, tiny, holes so that he could breathe and Weetabix concreted fingersimmediately became part of the family, did this occur to methe extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. Obviously I’m not as cool a Mama as And that was where the Mama in problem started. Fred didn'Boom, Baby, Boom Boom!'…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804101</amazonuk>t have any road sense. Or brakes.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Shh! We Have a PlanJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Chris HaughtonEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=When four friends go out together to hunt a bird they have a specific plan in mind Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as to how they any parent will do ittell you. One of the friendsBut really, however, isnwhy shouldn't really in on the plan and is it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just tagging along for the as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun of itas, say, learning about why the sun and he finds himself getting shushed along the way each time he shouts out 'hello birdy!'moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406342327</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.
{{newreview|title=So What!|author=Tracey Trussell and Neil Price|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|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 the weekend and another''No, louderNo, bigger, bossier one says No!'so what!' And then perhaps every time that quieter girl opens her mouth to say something is based around the other girl is there to shout her down with a 'so what!' This book captures those feelings, and demonstrates a way to deal with any 'so what' nonsense that comes your way!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909428191</amazonuk>}}simplest text imaginable.
{{newreview|title=Barbapapa's Ark|author=Annette Tison and Talus Taylor|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=''Barbapapa’s Ark'' is the fourth book in the popular series about a shape-shifting pink blobNo, his wife and seven children. It follows on from the previous bookno, in which Barbapapa and his family built themselves a beautiful house in a peaceful valley. One dayno! Okay, 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 pollutionokay. Over timeYes, more and more animals come to Barbapapa for helpyou may. 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>}}''
{{newreview|title=A First Book of Nature|author=Nicola Davies and Mark Hearld|rating=5|genre=ChildrenThat's Non-Fiction|summary=There is a difference between a book for children that it! But, like all the kids themselves will like and one that adults will like. A more mature person may like some interesting illustrations or imaginative storybest picture books, but most this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on 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 inside that may have slightly dry reading for it appears on the very young, but illustrations that will transfix and amaze – introducing ‘A First Book of Nature’ written by Nicola Davies and illustrated by Mark Hearldoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140634916X</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=GrandmaThe Farm Shop|author=Jessica ShepherdDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=54
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|summary=Oscar loves his Grandma very much so it’s scary Kirelle and frightening when she starts forgetting things her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and acting differentlySam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. She has As they walk to go the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and live somewhere else cows, goats and it smells funny chickens, and is full of new peopleeven some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846435978</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=The Way To The Zoo|author=John Burningham|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=It’s easy to lie in bed and see shadows on the wall and imagine what What will they could be. I still do it now though I know better than to think something that looks like, say, a door in the wall, might be a portal to another universe. Sylvie, 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 to the zoo! All the animals look nice and friendly so because it’s getting late and she has school in the morning, Sylvie heads back to bed and invites a little bear to come with her for the night. She has her own real live teddy. What fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348406</amazonuk>buy?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Mrs. Mo's MonsterSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Paul BeavisMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=What would you do if you answered the door one daySadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, only to find a mini monster standing there? her mind never on what she should be doing. Most of us wold probably weep a little She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and find somewhere she loves to hidespend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, but not ''<br>''To the brave Mrs MoMaritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She appears 'd love to know this monster sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and will do anything to keep him entertainedwent back regularly. Will he help round One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the house? one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. Nope? How about baking When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a cake? That may just get anybody’s attentionworld of dolphins, pirates, but will this book capture your little monster’s imagination?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271002</amazonuk>mermaids and treasure.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=A Day At The AirportLittle Gold Ted|author=Richard ScarryVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Father Cat was taking One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the kids sailingside of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, but it started to rain so they had Ted starts to call it offpanic. On ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the way homeattention of Reg the sewer rat, thoughwho plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, they bump into Rudolph Von Flugel who suggests 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 a detour to the airport as there’s lots nice bowl of things to see and do therebroth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531133</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Let's Go, Baby-o!Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Janet McLean Mayuri Naidoo and Andrew McLeanCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=Hey! Baby has woken up in Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his cot sidekicks Ryan and wants to play. Luckily his singingBrandon, dancinghave been laughing at Remy, jiggling and bouncing older cousin calling him names because he is there to spring him free short and start the funhas small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They leap are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and chant and jump and singthen push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. MeanwhileSo, in the garden, the rest of the familywhen Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the pets and the wildlife are having some drama of their owninstigator. Baby And then he gets into trouble at school and his dancing cousin pause to look out the window. Their observations inspire them teachers don't believe him when he tries to move and sing againexplain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361319</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dom Conlon and Nicola Anderson1471191303|title=I Will Eat The Moon (Tiny the Giant)Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=We [[I Am A Giant (Tiny This is the Giant) by Dom Conlon and Nicola Anderson|first]] met Tiny when he was but story of Isobel, a little girl who made a young giant and determined to prove that he was ''big''difference. When all seemed lost he was proved to be right and the day (as well as his pride) was saved. This time he's taken on an even bigger task. He knows that giants need big things to eat and he's got his eyes on the moon. Actually, he's licking his lipsIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, but it doesnbecause her parents couldn't impress afford to put the moon...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JCZS6Y6</amazonuk>}}heating on:
{{newreview|title=Convertible Spaceship|author=Claire Philip ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and Belinda Gallagher|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When is a book, not a book? When it is also a playmat and also a spaceship. With ‘Convertible Spaceship’ you get all three; a book that folds out into a playmat or into a spaceshipcrept up the corner of the bedpost. Can I hear the excitement from here?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782094970</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=Love Monster and The family didn't go to the Last Chocolate|author=Rachel Bright|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Love Monster has been away cinema or on holiday, holidays but they had each other and hethey were happy. Then the day came when they couldn's just come home with that 'holiday's over' feeling, only t afford the rent for the house and they had to move to find that someone has left a large box the far side of chocolates on his front doorstep! the city. Who left them there? And why? And would it be okay to eat them by himself orThis part of the city was cold, actually, should he really be sharing them with his friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007540302</amazonuk>sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.
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|summary=I don't expect you've ever thought Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about asking bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a dinosaur to dinnerteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. In case it ever crosses your mind to do soEvery night, this helpful book informs you she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the probable consequences of such a rash actionbear statue outside. It will also prove helpful should you be thinking about using a tiger as a towel orEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, heaven forbid, if you wondered if it would be okay to share your toothbrush with a sharkcolourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407136933</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{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 button, 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. It's a long, winding path and we can hear the stones scrunch. But there's plenty to play with here, from kicking a ball 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 Move on - and when we've played for ''ages'' there's sure to be an ice cream to enjoy.|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, so he cannot join in with their baking. Instead he goes to 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 House|author=Annette Tison and Talus Taylor|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=At the end of the [[Barbapapa's Voyage by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor|last Barbapapa bookNewest General Fiction Reviews]], our pink protagonist and his lovely wife were blessed with the addition of seven new shape-shifting Barbababies. A house 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>}}