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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children are NaughtyAdam Stower|authortitle=Vincent Cuvellier Murray and Aurelie GuillereyBun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Children are naughty. You don't have Murray is supposed to tell me that. I have two monstersbe a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one of whom I found this very morning standing on top of the toilet who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and putting nappy cream all over himself (fully clothed, well, whatever takes his fancy next of course!) the two. I only left the bathroom for But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a moment! Anywayhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, this story tells you all about and the naughty antics that children catflap they both use can get up tochuck them out, with everything from biting to throwing food on not into the floor! regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Prepare yourselfThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, things could get messy...!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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263265</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Have You Seen My The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon?|author=Steve LightWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=You’d think a dragon would be hard to lose. This one is bright green When we first meet Birpus and hiding Bulbus they're running for their lives in the city streetsForest of Fine Repute. A little boy sets out to find him Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Visiting all the dragon’s favourite haunts He's right behind them, the boy counts objectsspewing hot, sour milk from one to twentyhis nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, as he goesthey escaped. Follow his route They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, enjoy the journey Nester Nook and practise your counting skillsGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353817</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Short GiraffeWinter Visitor|author=Neil Flory Chris Green and Mark ClearyJenny Fionda|rating=45
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|summary=Anyone who has ever been Kit and Teal were just beginning to a Wedding and saw the photographer trying wonder whether it was better to wrangle the bride be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and groom’s families together for building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a group shot will know all about large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the perils shoreline. On top of mass photographythe ice was a polar bear. Neil Flory’s new children’s bookAs the ice bumped onto the sand, ‘The Short Giraffe’ suggests that the issue is not only human basedbear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but also happens in Teal knew that the animal kingdombear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361564</amazonuk> He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Two GiantsLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Michael ForemanLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=In this reissue of a book first published in 1967Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the Two Giants live in a nice world where things are lovely best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and they get along brilliantlyhis favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. What fun it must be She had promised to take him to have your best friend around all the timeFriday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. Until At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that is, they have a fightcould be. Before they can think about reconciling, they are separated and forced to live apart. Their animosity grows. Will Grandma thought that it might be possible for them to ever be friends again? Could something as simple and insignificant as sharing a pair of socks make it all ok?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351768</amazonuk>because he looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Teddy BedtimeThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Georgie BirkettAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=I haven’t much hands on experience with young children Elsie and bedtime, but from various alleys her little brother David loved to go to the park and avenues watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of my family I have a seen a few do the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and do notseven just standing up was very difficult. One thing I have learnt is that routine can be day Elsie spotted a vital tool bus in getting a child the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to bedpay for it as cash was tight at home. Whilst one set of Nephews come Gradually, David learned to stand up to you and ask to go to bed at 7pm, use the other are bouncing off the walls at 1ambus for support, and walk behind it. Children’s books can be a great way Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to entertain and teach younger children a bedtime routine and ''Teddy'' ''Bedtime'' by Georgie Birkett may just be the best example I have seenRepair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440414</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=Hilda and the Black Hound|author=Luke Pearson|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsFrontpage|summaryisbn=Hilda and the Black Hound is the fourth book in the “Hildafolk” series, each of which is a self-contained tale about a highly inquisitive little girl and her adventures. This time Hilda joins the Sparrow Scouts and befriends a house spirit whilst in the meantime a mysterious beast stalks the town of Trolberg.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263184</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1529504767|title=Baby's Got The BluesChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Carol Diggory ShieldsAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=I’ve lost count of 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 number home of times I’ve Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been toting my baby in my arms, pushing him in his buggy or carrying him in his baby back pack kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and strangers have remarked ''ooh – lovely! began to enjoy her life. I wish I was a baby!She'' Well, do you think babies have d help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it easy? Really? Well, listen up because came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the apple cheeked, down in decorations on the mouth hero of ''Baby’s Got Christmas tree. The Blues'' is going to set you rightbest surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351547</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Little Frog's Tadpole TroubleSqueakily Baby|author=Tatyana FeeneyBeth Webb|rating=34
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|summary=I’m the little sisterMuch as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. I never had He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to deal with the threat of an impending arrival sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to unsettle my world, but I can’t imagine it’s always funhelp. There are, of course, lots of books on It rocks Baby gently and the subjectwaves sing ''hush, seeing as it’s a big topic that affects lots hush''. Think of families every day, but here’s gentle wavelets falling onto a new book on sandy beach and you have the marketsound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay. Can ..'' And for a moment it add anything seems to the existing stack of have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''Becoming a big sibling'and we know exactly what' books?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192735543</amazonuk>s going to happen next.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Macavity,the Mystery CatA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=T S Eliot and Arthur RobinsBriony May Smith
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|summary=There’s nothing my little boy likes more than Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit down with back on her tail feathers when there was a tome problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of good poetry. Currently he is reading T.S. Eliot. Well, that’s what I will be telling them down the lollipop lady at playgroup anywaythe school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. No need Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to add that it’s not ‘The Wasteland’start with but the benefits were obvious. The poem in this volume is actually just one from ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ and features All the inimitable scoundrel of animals used the title, ''Macavity''crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308139</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=The Queen's Hat|author=Steve Antony|rating=5Frontpage|genreisbn=For Sharing|summary=A naughty gust of wind comes along and blows the Queen’s hat right off her head. Her Majesty simply cannot be seen bare headed, and so she follows it in hot pursuit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444919148</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1776574338|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:
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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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847803040</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Secrets of the Seashore|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa Nassner|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=This book starts in a rock poolground. It’s not a boringJordan says, quiet, calm place, though, it’s bustling with life"I did try to tell her, Miss!" and with every page that turns we learn more about the mysterious creatures that live within it. You might not see them everyone laughs at first, but with a hint of magic they appearpoor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782401105</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=TillyYou Can'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.''
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.
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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>}}
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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:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Never ask a Dinosaur to DinnerNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Gareth Edwards and Guy Parker-ReesOne Night in Beartown
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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}} Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]