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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Almost Fearless Hamilton SquidleggerAdventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Timothy Basil EringWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Little froglet Hamilton Squidlegger prides himself on his braveryWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Armed with his wooden sword and shield He's right behind them, he loves to battle imaginary monstersspewing hot, such as the skelecragonsour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, bracklesneed they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and fire-breathing frackensnapper. Hamilton fears nothing. Nothing that iswhen a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, except BEDTIMEthey escaped. As soon as They climbed up to the sun goes down he jumps from his own mud bed and clambers Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with mum their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and dadGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353795</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=ElephantOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Suzi EszterhasChris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=''Elephant'' is part Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the wonderful ''Eye on shoreline. On top of the Wild'' series by award-winning wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhasice was a polar bear. The book follows As the ice bumped onto the sand, the journey of bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a young bull elephant calf from birth through adulthoodrun for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. The vivid full-page photographs show heartwarming snapshots of life in He obviously needed to be taken home on the herd; bus and given a purely matriarchal society where strong females form a close family bond and work hard rearing good meal and protecting their youngsomewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805035</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=ThatLet's What Makes a Hippopotamus Smile!Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey Dee|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Sean Taylor Amy Sparkes and Laurent CardonKatie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=All hippopotamuses want Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to do is play in the bath park and eat salady thingswatch the red buses drive past. If you follow these instructions then any hippopotamus who turns 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 bus 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 your house will be thrilled home. Gradually, David learned to call you their friend; just don't forget stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to open the door very w i d e when they arriveRepair Shop, otherwise they'll never get in!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804551</amazonuk>hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=TigerThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Suzi EszterhasAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=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''Tiger'' is a simply stunning picture book following t have worried though as she went to the lives home of a tiger family from birth Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to adulthoodenjoy her life. Each page is filled She'd help Mrs Russell with enchanting pictures of the tigers in baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the wild, taken by award-winning photographer Suzi Eszterhasfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805043</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Katie's Picture ShowSqueakily Baby|author=James MayhewBeth Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=Can Much as mothers love their babies, there be a better way of bringing the world of art and the classic masterpieces alive for children than the charming Katie series? This particular story is the one that started it 's something they all twenty five years ago and this celebratory issue has been beautifully redread -illustrated by [[:Category:James Mayhew|James Mayhew]] throughout and is also in a slightly larger format toosqueakily baby. As the tiny figure of Katie stands dwarfed He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on the steps of the grand National Gallery with her Grandma, her happy attitude his blanket and cheerful disregard for rules such as ''Please do not touchwails'' teaches children not . The sea offers to be afraid of art help. It rocks Baby gently and gently encourages a curious attitude not only to paintings but to all their surroundingsthe waves sing ''hush, hush''. The formal atmosphere Think of an art gallery is made more engaging gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and child friendly as you have the paintings come sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seems to life with have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a friendly tiger, tea seagull '''shouts''' and cakes and a new playmate for Katiewe know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833240X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=A Big Day Practical Present for MigsPhilippa Pheasant|author=Jo HodgkinsonBriony May Smith
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|summary=ItPhilippa Pheasant was 's summer which means new school uniforms are in 'tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the shops, new stationery is problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on every shelf, and for those starting school for the first time, her tail feathers when there's was a wealth problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of Starting the lollipop lady at the school books crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to ease start with but the transitionbenefits were obvious. This is a fun new addition to All the shelves that ticks all animals used the boxes: colourful, inventive, sweet crossing and, best of all, told in rhyme. I love rhymeHedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440384</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=The Flying BathLeilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Donaldson Liu and David RobertsBei Lynn|rating=4.5
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|summary=It’s long been accepted that when you go to Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school and your parents are at workbus, makes his way through the city, your toys come alive and have adventures until you returnpicking up children as he goes. EVERYBODY knows that. But have you ever thought about Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the other things in your house window and whether they have slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a second lifemore fun way of going to school? Here’s There is a hintproblem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: they DOhe's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. Welcome to The school decides that he can't be the Flying Bathbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230742602</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Milly and the MermaidsBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Maudie Smith and Antonia WoodwardDavid Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=Mermaids are I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a great way niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to stretch young imaginationshave realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. Imagine living in an underwater world, swimming with We have the fishes in elephant who dons a pleasant way (rather than in tutu - and becomes a Mafioso way)''balletphant''. This is exactly the type of excitement that Milly longs for in ‘Milly The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and the Mermaids’ by Maudie Smith and Antonia Woodwardthen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) When her parents take her The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a trip to the seaside''sm.......'' OK, all she can think of is finding a Mermaid, but do they really exist?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006932</amazonuk>let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Peter BrownEd Boxall|rating=4.5
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|summary=School can be a difficult place for children, especially if your teacher is a stomping, roaring monster like Miss KirbyIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. Bobby spends most of his time worrying about what They're there to undo all the good that parents do about his monster of a teacher, and the best place for him to think about it is in so the parktrips out were always so much fun. He goes there one day A young boy was going to contemplate the situationcarnival with his Grandad, but who does he meet? Miss Kirby! She isn't stomping or roaring though, she is feeding the ducks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447257472</amazonuk>}}told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Marshmallows for MartiansOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Lee Wildish, Adam Guillain and Charlotte GuillainCordellya Smith
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|summary=What kid doesnWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and't like sweets or aliens? This book combines ' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the two as George packs up and leaves his house on a mission ability to Mars use it well. He liked to find out what sweets aliens love besttrick other animals. He builds was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a spaceship fair contest but wait and takes off, meeting some very surprising aliens along the waysee. Things are not always as they seem. From the first page, I knew I would enjoy this story and I wasn't disappointed at all. I laughed throughout and looked forward to turning each page to find out what happened nextll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266813</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cat and DogRob Keeley|authortitle=Michael ForemanCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Cat Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is only doing the motherly thing keen to explain how good they are for you and looking after how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her kittens when tragedy strikesthat carrots grow on trees. As she goes off to find them foodInfuriated, she accidentally gets whisked away in Lily checks with the fishmonger’s van. How will they survive? When night fallsteacher, who will protect them from the baddies explains that lurk fruits grow on the streets? Sometimestrees and vegetables, thoughlike carrots, friends can come grow in the most unlikely of forms, and in this case it’s Dogground. He’s no substitute mumJordan says, though. Will Cat find her way back "I did try to tell her brood?, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440112</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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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.''
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=My Amazing DadJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Ross CollinsEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Snip the little crocodile is worriedToots, trumps, farts. He Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't know what his dad does all dayfind them irresistibly funny. All his friends seem Funny to have really cool dadstalk about and joke about, that is. Monkey's dad is super fast But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at swinging through the treeswrong time. Little zebra's dad is excellent at hidingIn class, say, when everyone will hear it and Snipeveryone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's elephant friendlatest entry in her 's dad is amazing 'Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at spraying water higher than any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the highest treefamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Poor Snip doesnEverybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''t think that his dad can do any of those things.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122581</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=SupertatoWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Sue HendraJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Oh my goodness, whatever can we do''Who Needs Nappies? ThereNot Me!''s an evil pea on is the loose latest release in the supermarket, causing havoc wherever he goes''Everybody Potties! He has sticky-plastered poor carrot '' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the conveyor belt, pain out of potty training children and drawn replace it with some fun. It's a mustache and glasses on broccoliworthy aim, and poor old cucumber has been mummified with a bandage! as any frustrated parent will tell you. Still, try to calm your frayed nerves because, never fear, Supertato is here to save the day!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074474</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Chicken ClickingWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Jeanne Willis and Tony RossPeter Cotton
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|summary=Chick has a problemMeet Fred. Every nightWell, when the farmer and his wife are asleepactually, she sneaks into their house and goes online on their computer you're going to order thingsbe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. She starts with But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a teapot, snake and even those of us who have a motorbike! phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. Soon she's buying diamond watches He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and a hundred handbagsimmediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for which a walk. And that was where the farmer blames his wife - she, of course, gets angry and blames his dodgy software since she certainly problem started. Fred didn't order those things! have any road sense. Chick starts to buy gifts for all her farm animal friends, but all too soon she realises she's alone on the farm and in need of a friendOr brakes. Can she find one online?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344052X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Secret Dinosaur: Giants AwakeJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=N S BlackmanEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=When Marlin Maxton goes on a school visit to the local museumCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, he is looking forward to seeing Protos - the dinosaur that his Uncle Gus remembers so fondlyas any parent will tell you. But Protos is nowhere really, why shouldn't it be? We all have 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 seen as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the museum's Mr Grubbler seems to be doing his utmost to moon take all the fun out of turns in the school visit Marlin had been anticipating with such excitement. So Marlin sneaks off to explore by himself...sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992752507</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Light-Fingered LarryJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Jan FearnleyNo, No, No!
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|summary=Larry They say the Octopus has eight tentacles, and each and every one is used to half inch other people's stuff. As he travels through Bottlenose Bay, he fills his net with more and more loot until everyone has just had enough. Officer Pavani comes to best picture books are the rescue, but will Larry manage to escape?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405265388</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Lazy Friend|author=Ronan Badel|rating=3simplest ones.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=In a remote jungle, near the top And nothing could be truer of the forest canopythis latest from Justine Avery, Sloth, Snake, Frog and Bird hang out together. Whilst his pals play cards, Sloth does what he does best, sleep. When a lumberjack fells the tree that they are sitting in, three of the friends make a hasty escape but Sloth just carries on snoozing. Luckily Snake acts fast and slithers aboard the truck carrying their tree trunk away with Sloth still in itBookbag favourite. Can Snake save the day and get them both back home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>192727141X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Sir Scallywag and the Deadly Dragon PooThe Farm Shop|author=Giles Andreae Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Korky PaulEma Tepic|rating=54
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|summary=King Colin has spent his fortune on Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a giant sweet machine, which he guzzles from each walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and every daySam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. The entire kingdom has grown fat and lazyAs they walk to the top of the hill, except for Sir Scallywagthey see a big barn with a sign outside. It's lucky somebody in a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the castle still has their wits about themstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, because Baron Greedyguts has heard all about their sweet machinegoats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and he's coming to get it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718197364</amazonuk>}}Sam go shopping.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Cantankerous King ColinSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Phil Allcock Maureen Duffy and Steve StoneAnita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=King Colin definitely got out of Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the wrong side of the bed this morning. He’s being very crotchety River Thames at Greenwich and rude, but whenever anyone tells him off he ignores them. After all, a king can do what he wantsshe loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861133</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Nine Words MaxLittle Gold Ted|author=Dan Bar-El Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and David HuyckSasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=Some children talk lots and some talk quite little. Some jabber away incessantlyOne day, while others prefer contemplative reflectionGold Ted falls into a puddle. It’s It's quite a deep puddle and the same the world over, water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and it’s true whoever you are, from an average Joe to is sucked down a member drain on the side of the Royal Familystreet. Prince Max is a talker, full of funFinding himself down in the sewer, interesting facts and observations he’s keen Ted starts to share with everyone around himpanic. His brothers, on ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the other handsewer rat, are boys who plucks him out of fewer wordsthe dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and don’t have much time for Max’s waffling onwarms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1770495622</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=None The Number (The Hueys)Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Oliver JeffersMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down 'A Counting Adventure!'again'' the subtitle of this book boasts. How exciting! I love numbers The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and countingBrandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and so does a little boy I knowhas small eyes. This one’s a bit old for him just yet – he’s the wrong side of 24 months – They are mean but I can’t wait they are not stupid. They are careful to share it with wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him in just that little bit further when the futureother kids are around. The item of question here is whether 0 is a number. After allSo, when Remy reacts, a number is something you can countit looks as though he was the instigator. And if there’s 1 of something then he gets into trouble at school and you take 1 away, you’re left with a different number: 0|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007420692</amazonuk>the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=The Very Noisy HouseInvisible|author=Julie Rhodes and Korky PaulTom Percival
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|summary=I might live in This is the middle story of the country nowIsobel, 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 bustlea little girl who made a big difference. In fact, unless you too have Isobel lived on the main artery of Mexico City with her parents in a single glazed apartment, you’re going to come 2nd in the ''Who’s lived in house - a noisier very cold 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 her parents couldn't afford to this house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805345</amazonuk>}}put the heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Have You Seen My Dragon?Nick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Steve LightOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=You’d think a dragon would be hard to lose. This one is bright green Many children have an obsession and hiding Sandy Lane, who lives in the city streetsBeartown, is obsessed with bears. A little boy sets out to find himShe collects books about bears. Visiting all the dragon’s Her favourite hauntstoy is Berisford, the boy counts objectsa teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, from one she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to twenty, as he goesthe bear statue outside. Follow his routeEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, enjoy the journey and practise your counting skillsa colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406353817</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}