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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreview|title=Greek Myths: Stories of Sun, Stone and SeaFrontpage|author=Sally Pomme Clayton|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=University Challenge questions frequently have me stumped, but it’s ones on Greek mythology that highlight a gap in my knowledge and make me yearn for the classical education that I never had. Who or what is Erato? Should I be concerned if I meet Kerberos? And why did a delivery company decide to call itself Hermes? Consequently, I had high hopes for ''Greek Myths: Stories of Sun, Stone and Sea'', a collection of ten myths retold for children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805086</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAdam Stower|title=Sir Scallywag Murray and the Deadly Dragon Poo|author=Giles Andreae and Korky Paul|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=King Colin has spent his fortune on a giant sweet machine, which he guzzles from each and every day. The entire kingdom has grown fat and lazy, except for Sir Scallywag. It's lucky somebody in the castle still has their wits about them, because Baron Greedyguts has heard all about their sweet machine, and he's coming to get it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718197364</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bob and Rob|author=Sue PickfordBun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Rob Murray is supposed to be a burglar humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is veryable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, very well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad. Bob is magician's cat, so his dogfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, who is veryand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, very goodbut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Well This time round it drops them into a Viking land, as good as where a dog whose owner troll hunter is a burglar can expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be...honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804098</amazonuk>0008561249
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Cantankerous King ColinThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Phil Allcock Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Steve StoneIndre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=54
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|summary=King Colin definitely got out of When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the wrong side Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the bed Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this morningat home: it won't end well. He’s being very crotchety ) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and rudewhen a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, but whenever anyone tells him off he ignores themthey escaped. After all They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, a king can do what he wantsNester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861133</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Hocus Pocus DiplodocusOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Steve Howson Chris Green and Kate DaubneyJenny Fionda
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|summary=Magic is a lot of funKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but did you ever think about how it started? Pre-David Blaine? Pre-Dynamo? Pre-Paul Daniels warm, or frozen cold and Debbie McGee? You need to look much further back than building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the 80s to find ice bumped onto the answersand, you knowthe bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, because but Teal knew that the first magician bear was in hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the days of the dinosaursbus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. Meet Hocus Pocus Diplodocus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861125</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Nine Words MaxLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Dan Bar-El and David HuyckLainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=Some children talk lots and some talk quite little. Some jabber away incessantly, while others prefer contemplative reflection. It’s Todd was excited about spending the same the world overweekend with his grandmother, and it’s true whoever you are, from an average Joe to a member of not least because she made the Royal Familybest beetle juice. Prince Max is a talker, full He packed two pairs of fun, interesting facts dungarees and his favourite hat and observations he’s keen then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to share with everyone around take himto the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. His brothers, on the other hand, are boys of fewer words At home, his only friend was his mum and don’t have much time for Max’s waffling onhe wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1770495622</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=None The Number Toy Bus (The HueysRepair Shop Stories)|author=Oliver JeffersAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=''A Counting Adventure!'' Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the subtitle of this book boasts. How exciting! I love numbers park and counting, and so does a little boy I knowwatch the red buses drive past. This one’s a bit old for him just yet – he’s Elsie would race the buses along the wrong side of 24 months – the park but I can’t wait to share it David couldn't - he'd been born with him cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the futuretoy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. The item of question here is whether 0 is a number Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. After all Many decades later, a number is something you can count. And if there’s 1 of something Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and you take 1 awayrusted, to the Repair Shop, you’re left hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with a different number: 0|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007420692</amazonuk>it.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Very Noisy HouseChristmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Julie Rhodes Amy Sparkes and Korky PaulKatie Hickey
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|summary=I might live Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in the middle of the country now, with nothing but pheasants 1939 and the odd wild turkey for neighbours, but I remember well what it’s like nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to live in the hustle and bustleher final destination. In fact, unless you too She needn't have lived on worried though as she went to the main artery home of Mexico City in a single glazed apartmentMr and Mrs Russell, you’re going to come 2nd in the ''Who’s lived in a noisier house?who couldn'' competition. Well, it would t have been second, but after reading this, I think we’d both have kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to bump down a spot, because nothing, enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and I mean nothing, compares when it came to this houseChristmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805345</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Betsy Goes To SchoolSqueakily Baby|author=Helen StephensBeth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=What Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a lovely book! Betsy is a big grown up girl squeakily baby. He's so it’s time tired but he can't - or won't - go to start schoolsleep: instead, but that’s a scary thing he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to dohelp. There are so many other boys It rocks Baby gently and girls therethe waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and she doesnyou have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts'''t and we know any of themexactly what's going to happen next. Will she make it through the first day with no tears?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268239</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Dylan's Amazing Dinosaurs - the Tyrannosaurus RexA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=E T Harper and Dan TaylorBriony May Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Everyone love dinosaurs, that is Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as long as they stay millions of years in she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the past and don’t suddenly turn up in mayor about the park next time I am having problem but didn't even get a picnicreply. Dylan is Philippa wasn't a character who certainly loves dinosaurs, enough so that he is able bird to travel sit back in time to answer any questions he may have about their existenceon her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Seems Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little dangerous amateur to me, especially when he comes up against start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the king of lizards in E T Harper crossing and Dan Taylor’s, ‘Dylan's Amazing Dinosaurs - the Tyrannosaurus Rex’Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119343</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Children are NaughtyLeilong's Too Long!|author=Vincent Cuvellier Julia Liu and Aurelie GuillereyBei Lynn
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|summary=Children are naughtyEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. You Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't have even need to tell me thatgo downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. I have two monstersIt's perfect, one isn't it? What could be a more fun way of whom I found this very morning standing on top of the toilet and putting nappy cream all over himself (fully clothedgoing to school? There is a problem, of course!) though. I only left Leilong isn't happy in the bathroom for city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a moment! tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. Anyway, this story tells you all about the naughty antics The school decides that children he can get up to, with everything from biting to throwing food on 't be the floor! Prepare yourself, things could get messy..bus anymore.!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263265</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Have You Seen My Dragon?Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=Steve LightDavid Elliott
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|summary=You’d think I love a dragon would be hard to lose. This one good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is bright green and hiding in aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the city streets. A little boy sets out child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to find him. Visiting all the dragon’s favourite haunts, the boy counts objects, have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one to twenty, as he goes. Follow his route, enjoy We have the journey elephant who dons a tutu - and practise your counting skillsbecomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353817</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=The Short GiraffeCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Neil Flory and Mark ClearyEd Boxall
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|summary=Anyone who has ever been It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to a Wedding and saw undo all the photographer trying to wrangle good that parents do, so the bride and groom’s families together for a group shot will know all about the perils of mass photographytrips out were always so much fun. Neil Flory’s new children’s bookA young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, ‘The Short Giraffe’ suggests that the issue is not only human basedjust remember, but also happens in the animal kingdomdon't let go of my hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361564</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Two GiantsOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Michael ForemanCordellya Smith
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|summary=In this reissue of a book first published in 1967When the world was made, the Two Giants live in animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a nice world where things are lovely strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and they get along brilliantly. What fun it must be to have your best friend around all '' the timefuture. Until Rabbit developed intelligence - but, that isunfortunately, they have a fight not the ability to use it well. Before they can think about reconciling, they are separated and forced He liked to live aparttrick other animals. Their animosity grows. Will it be possible for them He was also jealous which was how he came to ever be friends again? Could something as simple in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and insignificant see. Things are not always as sharing a pair of socks make they seem. I'll tell you how it all ok?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351768</amazonuk>came about.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Teddy BedtimeRob Keeley|authortitle=Georgie BirkettCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=5 4
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|summary=I haven’t much hands on experience with young children Lily loves eating fruit and bedtimevegetables. She likes carrots, but from various alleys broccoli, cabbage and avenues of my family I have a seen a few do and do notsaubergines. One thing I have learnt When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is that routine can be a vital tool in getting a child to bed. Whilst one set of Nephews come up keen to explain how good they are for you and ask how nice to go to bed at 7pmeat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the other are bouncing off teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the walls at 1amground. Children’s books can be a great way Jordan says, "I did try to entertain tell her, Miss!" and teach younger children a bedtime routine and ''Teddy'' ''Bedtime'' by Georgie Birkett may just be the best example I have seeneveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440414</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''
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|summary=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.
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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|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=BabyEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's Got The Blueslatest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Carol Diggory ShieldsJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been toting my baby in my arms, pushing him in his buggy or carrying him in his baby back pack and strangers have remarked ''ooh – lovely! I wish I was a babyWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' Well, do you think babies have it easy? Really? Well, listen up because is the apple cheeked, down latest release in the mouth hero of ''Baby’s Got The BluesEverybody Potties!'' is going series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to set 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 right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351547</amazonuk> .
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 {{newreview|title=Little Frog's Tadpole Trouble|author=Tatyana Feeney|rating=3|genre=For SharingFrontpage|summaryisbn=I’m the little sister. I never had to deal with the threat of an impending arrival to unsettle my world, but I can’t imagine it’s always fun. There are, of course, lots of books on the subject, seeing as it’s a big topic that affects lots of families every day, but here’s a new book on the market. Can it add anything to the existing stack of ''Becoming a big sibling'' books?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192735543</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewB07GZ81J7C|title=Macavity,When Fred the Mystery CatSnake Got Squished and Mended|author=T S Eliot and Arthur RobinsPeter Cotton
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|summary=There’s nothing my little boy likes more than to sit down with a tome of good poetry. Currently he is reading T.S. EliotMeet Fred. Well, that’s what actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I will be telling them down at playgroup anyway'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. No need Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to add that it’s not ‘The Wasteland’him. The poem He arrived as a present in this volume is actually just one from ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ a box with holes so that he could breathe and features the inimitable scoundrel immediately became part of the titlefamily, ''Macavity''to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308139</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Queen Fred didn's Hat|author=Steve Antony|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=A naughty gust of wind comes along and blows the Queen’s hat right off her headt have any road sense. Her Majesty simply cannot be seen bare headed, and so she follows it in hot pursuit Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444919148</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|title=The Farmer's Away! Baa! Neigh!Frontpage|author=Anne Vittur KennedyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|ratingtitle=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Flobba dob. Eh-oh. Or should I just stop the words completely and communicate with a swanee whistle? From the Flowerpot Men to the Teletubbies via the Clangers, the substitution of ‘real’ words with made up language and sounds has always been controversial. So I’ll level with you straight away and spoil the ‘surprise’ of ''The Farmer’s AwayEverybody Pees! Baa(Everybody Potties! Neigh!'' by revealing that, bar the title, there are no proper words in this book. When this book is described as being told ''in the animals’ own words'' it means quite literally that. Barks. Hisses. Neighs. Cheeps. And lots of them. For 32 pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356530</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Eric the Boy Who Lost His Gravity|author=Jenni Desmond)
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|summary=Everyone gets angry sometimesCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. Maybe But really, why shouldn't it be? We all it takes is someone queue-jumpinghave to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, or in the case of my toddlersay, all it takes is learning about why the wrong colour cup, or someone playing with sun and the one toy moon take turns in the world that he wants right at that moment! The challenge for children growing up (and for adults too sometimes!) is how to deal with that anger. This story is about what happens when a little boy called Eric gets angry.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609053486</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How to Catch a StarJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Oliver JeffersNo, No, No!
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|summary=The boy makes various attempts to catch his star. He spends most of They say the day waiting for a star to appear, and when one finally does he tries climbing a tree, or dragging his father's lifebelt to lasso best picture books are the star downsimplest ones. Each attempt, however, fails. Finally, down by the shoreAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, he sees a star that has fallen into the sea. He walks along the beach, hoping that the star will wash up on the sand and, finally, it does! They boy and the star walk away together, hand in handBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007536593</amazonuk>}}
{{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''No, No, crush boulders with his bare claws and chase away the other dinosaurs with his mighty roarNo! 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 ''Dadda''is based around the simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348228</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Big Splash!|author=A H Benjamin and Jon Lycett-Smith|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The forest animals are all quietly minding their own business when:
DA-DUMP! DA-DUMP! DA-DUMP''No, no, no!Okay, okay. Yes, you may.''
Something big causes That's it! But, like all the ground to shakebest picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the trees to tremble and inside that it appears on the rocks to rattleoutside. It was a terrible noise!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909428310</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=When Angus Met AlvinThe Farm Shop|author=Sue PickfordDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4.5
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|summary=Angus Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is not like other aliens. He dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is a peace-loving little fellow, who likes nothing better than sitting perfectly turned out as ever in his garden watching smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the flowers grow and sipping a nice cup top of tea. Unfortunately, one daythe hill, they see a big barn with a strange spaceship crash lands in his garden and out pops sign outside. It's a cheeky, hyperactive green alien called Alvin who farm shop! But this is rather a show-offfarm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. It’s time for Angus to teach Alvin a lesson about mannersThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Can the two aliens put their differences aside Excited, Kirelle and become friends in the end?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847803040</amazonuk>}}Sam go shopping.
{{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 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 What will they appear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401105</amazonuk>buy?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Tilly's At Home HolidaySadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Gillian HibbsMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=Tariq is going to IndiaSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. Chanel is going She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to Spainspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. And Paris ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, of course, is going to Paris''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Poor TillyHer imagination was fired. She’s not going anywhereShe'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. Not even to Grandma’s One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. Mum thinks When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that they can still enjoy themselves at home. Tilly’s not so sure. Can she could never have imagined in a visit to the libraryworld of dolphins, the swimming poolpirates, the park mermaids and a market really be as much fun as a proper holiday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184643596X</amazonuk>treasure.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=The Ice BearLittle Gold Ted|author=Jackie MorrisVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=4.5
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|summary=LongOne day, long ago in the mists of time in an icy and barren landscape Gold Ted falls into a bear gives birth to two cubspuddle. While curled up close together the raven tricks the bear It's quite a deep puddle and steals one of the cubs awaywater is swirling. The mother bear grieves Poor Ted starts to spin around and never forgets her loss. However around and is sucked down a drain on the raven drops side of the bundle street. Finding himself down in the path of a hunter and sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and his wife discover a longed for child. Seven years pass and alerts the child wanders from his home and finds himself back in attention of Reg the land sewer rat, who plucks him out of the bearsdirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. He loves both families Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and both families love warms him so they must find up with a way to resolve this dilemma and learn to live together in harmonynice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804578</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=This Is Me EatingRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Neal LaytonMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Babies love books Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and babies love eatingBrandon, so a book about eating have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is bound short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to be a hit with wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the toddler brigadeother kids are around. This book comes to life So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the moment you pick it up instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and feel like someone is watching you. As the cover baby’s eyes roll ominously from side teachers don't believe him when he tries to side you feel a frisson of excitementexplain what happened. What more fun is hidden within the pages?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406349445</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on:
 
''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.''
{{newreview|title=Boom, Baby, Boom, Boom!|author=Margaret Mahy The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and Margaret Chamberlain|rating=4they were happy.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Aeroplane noises, choo-choo sounds, demonstrations of mouth opening wide. I’ve heard them all suggested Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to help with weaning reluctant baby eaters. Never though, has it crossed my mind move to bang a drum set whilst lunch time is in sessionthe far side of the city. Not even at my lowest point, when I made This part of the rookie error of crouching to pick up dropped food enabling baby to lovingly ruffle my hair with his sweet, tinycity was cold, sad and lonely and Weetabix concreted fingers, did this occur to meIsobel felt invisible. 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|titleauthor=Shh! We Have a PlanNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Chris HaughtonOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=When four friends go out together to hunt a bird they Many children have a specific plan an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in mind as to how they will do it. One of the friendsBeartown, however, isn't really in on the plan and is just tagging along for the fun of it, and he finds himself getting shushed along the way each time he shouts out 'hello birdy!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406342327</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=So What!|author=Tracey Trussell and Neil Price|rating=3obsessed with bears.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Girls can be horrid sometimesShe collects books about bears. You know how it Her favourite toy is - one girl in the playground says quite innocently that their mum bought them some new sandals at the weekend and anotherBerisford, loudera teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, bigger, bossier one she looks out of her bedroom window and says 'so what!' And then perhaps every time that quieter girl opens her mouth goodnight to say something the other girl is there bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to shout her down with a 'so what!' This book captures those feelingsBee Bear, and demonstrates a way to deal with any 'so what' nonsense colourful painted bear that comes your waylives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909428191</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{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 blob, his wife and seven children. It follows Move on from the previous book, in which Barbapapa and his family built themselves a beautiful house in a peaceful valley. One day, after a picnic, the family decide to take a leisurely ride along the river, but are horrified to see sick and injured animals suffering from the effects of pollution. Over time, more and more animals come to Barbapapa for help. He decides that the only way to teach the humans a lesson is to take the animals to a new, green planet where they will be safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331381</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]