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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hogs Hate HugsAdam Stower|authortitle=Tiziana Bendall-Brunello Murray and John Bendall-BrunelloBun|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Little Hog 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 cutest little thing you ever did seetwo. And that’s But he's a bad thing. Because he never gets peace. Everyone wants to hug him ALL THE TIME. What’s magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a poorhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, over-hugged hog to do? Welland the catflap they both use can chuck them out, in this casenot into the regular back garden, Little Hog has but into a solutionworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. He makes This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a bold sign troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and hangs it on the tree. he''HOGS HAT HUGS!'' it reads. And that’s that.ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0745965148</amazonuk>0008561249
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Peter BrownWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=School can be a difficult place When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for children, especially if your teacher is a stomping, roaring monster like Miss Kirbytheir lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Bobby spends most of his time worrying Their greatest fear has come about what to do about his monster of a teacher, and : the best place for him to think about it Sour Milk Dragon is in the parkchasing them. He goes there one day to contemplate the situation's right behind them, spewing hot, but who does he meet? Miss Kirby! She isnsour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't stomping or roaring thoughend well.) Fortunately, she is feeding they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the duckstangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447257472</amazonuk>
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  {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Greek MythsOn the Beach: Stories of Sun, Stone and SeaThe Winter Visitor|author=Sally Pomme ClaytonChris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=University Challenge questions frequently have me stumpedKit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but it’s ones warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on Greek mythology that highlight a gap in my knowledge snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and make me yearn for with wobbly legs moved from the classical education that I never hadice. Who or what is Erato? Should I be concerned if I meet Kerberos? And why did Kit was all for making a delivery company decide to call itself Hermes? Consequently, I had high hopes run for ''Greek Myths: Stories of Sunit, Stone but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and Sea'', gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a collection of ten myths retold for childrengood meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805086</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Sir Scallywag and the Deadly Dragon PooLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Giles Andreae and Korky PaulLainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=King Colin has spent Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his fortune on a giant sweet machinegrandmother, which he guzzles from each not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and every day. The entire kingdom has grown fat his favourite hat and lazy, except for Sir Scallywagthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. It's lucky somebody in She had promised to take him to the castle still has their wits Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about them, because Baron Greedyguts has heard all about their sweet machinethis as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he's coming to get wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718197364</amazonuk>might be because he looked different.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Bob and RobThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Sue PickfordAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Rob is Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a burglar who is verybus in the toy 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. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, very badand walk behind it. Bob is his dog Many decades later, who is veryElsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, very good. Wellto the Repair Shop, as good as a dog whose owner is a burglar can be..hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804098</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Cantankerous King ColinThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Phil Allcock Amy Sparkes and Steve StoneKatie Hickey
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|summary=King Colin definitely Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got out of to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the wrong side home of the bed this morning. He’s being very crotchety Mr and rudeMrs Russell, but whenever anyone tells him off he ignores themwho couldn't have been kinder to her. After She even had her own room - all, a king can do what he wantsto herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861133</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|title=Hocus Pocus Diplodocus|author=Steve Howson and Kate Daubney|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Magic is a lot of fun, but did you ever think about how it started? Pre-David Blaine? Pre-Dynamo? Pre-Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee? You need to look much further back than the 80s to find the answer, you know, because the first magician was in the days of the dinosaurs. Meet Hocus Pocus Diplodocus.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848861125</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1916459943|title=Nine Words MaxSqueakily Baby|author=Dan Bar-El and David HuyckBeth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=Some children talk lots Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and some talk quite little''wails''. Some jabber away incessantly, while others prefer contemplative reflection The sea offers to help. It’s the same It rocks Baby gently and the world overwaves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and it’s true whoever you arehave the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, from an average Joe la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to a member of the Royal Familyhave worked as Baby closes his eyes. Prince Max is Then a talker, full of fun, interesting facts seagull '''shouts''' and observations he’s keen we know exactly what's going to share with everyone around him. His brothers, on the other hand, are boys of fewer words, and don’t have much time for Max’s waffling onhappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1770495622</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=None The Number (The Hueys)A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Oliver JeffersBriony May Smith
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|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''A Counting Adventure!tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the subtitle of this book boastsOld Oak Road. How exciting! I love numbers and counting, and so does She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a little boy I knowreply. This one’s Philippa wasn't a bit old for him just yet – he’s bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the wrong side benefits of 24 months – but I can’t wait the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to share it start with him in but the futurebenefits were obvious. The item of question here is whether 0 is All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a numbersafe path overnight. After all, a number is something you can count. And if there’s 1 of something and you take 1 away, you’re left with a different number: 0|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007420692</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Very Noisy House1776574338|authortitle=Julie Rhodes and Korky Paul|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I might live in the middle of the country now, with nothing but pheasants and the odd wild turkey for neighbours, but I remember well what it’s like to live in the hustle and bustle. In fact, unless you too have lived on the main artery of Mexico City in a single glazed apartment, you’re going to come 2nd in the 'Leilong'Who’s lived in a noisier house?'' competition. Well, it would have been second, but after reading this, I think we’d both have to bump down a spot, because nothing, and I mean nothing, compares to this house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805345</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Betsy Goes To Schools Too Long!|author=Helen StephensJulia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a lovely book! Betsy more fun way of going to school? There is a big grown up girl so it’s time problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to start school, but that’s be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a scary thing tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to doand traffic regularly gets snarled up. There are so many other boys and girls there, and she doesn The school decides that he can't know any of thembe the bus anymore. Will she make it through the first day with no tears?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268239</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Dylan's Amazing Dinosaurs - the Tyrannosaurus RexBumblebee Grumblebee|author=E T Harper and Dan TaylorDavid Elliott
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|summary=Everyone I love dinosaursa good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that is as long as they stay millions of years in you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the past elephant who dons a tutu - and don’t suddenly turn up in the park next time I am having becomes a picnic''balletphant''. Dylan is The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a character ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who certainly loves dinosaurs, enough so that he drops his ice cream cone is able to travel back in time to answer any questions he may have a ''crynoceros'' (think about their existenceit!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm. ......'' Seems a little dangerous to meOK, especially when he comes up against the king of lizards in E T Harper and Dan Taylor’s, ‘Dylanlet's Amazing Dinosaurs - the Tyrannosaurus Rex’.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119343</amazonuk>not go there Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Children are NaughtyCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Vincent Cuvellier and Aurelie GuillereyEd Boxall
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|summary=Children are naughtyIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. You donThey't have re there to tell me undo all the good that. I have two monstersparents do, one of whom I found this very morning standing on top of so the toilet and putting nappy cream all over himself (fully clothed, of course!) trips out were always so much fun. I only left the bathroom for a moment! Anyway, this story tells you all about A young boy was going to the naughty antics that children can get up to, carnival with everything from biting to throwing food on the floor! Prepare yourselfhis Grandad, things could get messy...!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263265</amazonuk>}}who told him:
{{newreview|title=Have You Seen My Dragon?|author=Steve Light|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=You’d think a dragon would ''It'll be hard to lose. This one is bright green and hiding in the city streets. A little boy sets out to find him. Visiting all the dragon’s favourite haunts, the boy counts objectsbrilliant, from one to twenty, as he goes. Follow his routejust remember, enjoy the journey and practise your counting skillsdon't let go of my hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353817</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Short GiraffeReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Neil Flory and Mark ClearyCordellya Smith
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|summary=Anyone who has ever been to When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a Wedding strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and saw '' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the photographer trying ability to use it well. He liked to wrangle the bride and groom’s families together for trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a group shot will know all about the perils of mass photographyrace with Turtle. Neil Flory’s new children’s book, ‘The Short Giraffe’ suggests You might think that the issue is 's not only human based, a fair contest but also happens in the animal kingdomwait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361564</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Two GiantsRob Keeley|authortitle=Michael ForemanCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4
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|summary=In this reissue of a book first published in 1967, the Two Giants live in a nice world where things are lovely Lily loves eating fruit and they get along brilliantlyvegetables. What fun it must be to have your best friend around all the time. UntilShe likes carrots, that isbroccoli, they have a fightcabbage and aubergines. Before they can think about reconcilingWhen her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are separated for you and forced how nice to live aparteat. Their animosity growsOne day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Will it be possible for them Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to ever be friends again? Could something as simple tell her, Miss!" and insignificant as sharing a pair of socks make it all ok?everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406351768</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=Teddy BedtimeYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Georgie BirkettJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5
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|summary=I haven’t much hands on experience with young children and bedtime''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, but from various alleys and avenues of my family I have a seen a few do and do nots. One thing I have learnt "You Can't Wear Panties!" is that routine can be a vital tool in getting a child to bed. Whilst one set cry (the big-girl kind!) of Nephews come up to you toilet triumph and ask to go to bed at 7pm, the other are bouncing off the walls at 1ampersevering panty pride. Children’s books can be a great way to entertain and teach younger children a bedtime routine and ''Teddy'' ''Bedtime'' by Georgie Birkett may just be the best example I have seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440414</amazonuk>}}
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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 to set you rightseries from Justine Avery.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406351547</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Little Frog's Tadpole Trouble|author=Tatyana Feeney|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=I’m the little sister. I never had This series of fun picture books aims to deal with take the threat pain out of an impending arrival to unsettle my world, but I can’t imagine it’s always potty training children and replace it with some fun. There areIt's a worthy aim, 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 marketany frustrated parent will tell you. . Can it add anything to the existing stack of ''Becoming a big sibling'' books?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192735543</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|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 will be telling them down at playgroup anyway'm getting ahead of myself: I'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 add that it’s not ‘The Wasteland’warm to 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, 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. Fred didn''Macavity''t have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308139</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|title=The Queen's HatFrontpage|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 head. Her Majesty simply cannot be seen bare headed, Justine Avery and so she follows it in hot pursuit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444919148</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNaday Meldova|title=The Farmer's Away! Baa! Neigh!|author=Anne Vittur Kennedy|rating=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''No, no, no!|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:Okay, okay. Yes, you may.''
DA-DUMPThat's it! DA-DUMP! DA-DUMP! Something big causes 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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|title=The Invisible
|author=Tom Percival
|rating=5
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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 itBeartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. One of the friendsHer favourite toy is Berisford, howevera teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, isn't really in on the plan and is just tagging along for the fun she looks out of it, her bedroom window and he finds himself getting shushed along says goodnight to the way each time he shouts out 'bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello birdyto Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406342327</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}  Move on to [[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]