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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers |summary=As the daughter of Murray is supposed to be a car worker humble, tidy and the mother of a little boy friendly cat, one who is fascinated by wheelsable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, ''The Life whatever takes his fancy next of a Car'' stood out on the shelftwo. Part of the But he's a bad magician'Busy Wheels'' seriess 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, this non fiction picture book illustrates not into the life cycle regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a car from manufacture troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to scrapping with the help of just the odd word or two or three.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804217</amazonuk>0008561249
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=S is for South Africa1732898766|authortitle=Beverley Naidoo The Adventures of Birpus and Prodeepta DasBulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|ratingauthor=4.5|genre=Children's NonWynn Everett-Fiction|summary=Beverley Naidoo is best known for her award winning fiction for older readers but in this title in the World Alphabet series she brings her native country of South Africa to life for younger children. Starting with A for the Apartheid Museum and finishing with Zoo Lake in Jo’burg she covers many different aspects of life including traditions, food, landscape, animalsAlbanese, music and family life and each subject is accompanied by one of Prodeepta Das’s stunning photos. The poetic text flows Michael Albanese and this would work well read aloud.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805027</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Almost Fearless Hamilton Squidlegger|author=Timothy Basil EringIndre 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:
{{newreview|title=Fiddlesticks!|author=Sean Taylor and Sally Anne Garland|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is the story of a Mouse with very helpful friends, maybe even a little too helpful! Each time they fix something in his new''It'll be brilliant, almost perfect housejust remember, they break something else. Things escalate until there is almost nothing left don't let go of the house at all and poor Mouse is despairing. What will he do to make things better and, more to the point, where will he live?! His friends soon come to the rescue and manage to make amendsmy hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857076159</amazonuk>''
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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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{{Frontpage
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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.''
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|summary=As a child, fairy tales for me were synonymous with the Ladybird Classics series. Whilst the memory of the stories and the accompanying paintings remains very fresh, I don’t recall any mention being made of the original authors. I was eager then to read ''Tales from Hans Christian Andersen'', a collection of nine stories, and identify which classic tales from my childhood he wrote.
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And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=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 stuffbest picture books are the simplest ones. As he travels through Bottlenose BayAnd nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, he fills his net with more and more loot until everyone has just had enougha Bookbag favourite. Officer Pavani comes to the rescue, but will Larry manage to escape?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405265388</amazonuk>}}''No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable.
{{newreview|title=The Lazy Friend|author=Ronan Badel|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=In a remote jungle, near the top of the forest canopy, Sloth, Snake''No, Frog and Bird hang out together. Whilst his pals play cardsno, Sloth does what he does bestno! Okay, sleepokay. When a lumberjack fells the tree that they are sitting inYes, 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 ityou may. Can Snake save the day and get them both back home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>192727141X</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=Hogs Hate Hugs|author=Tiziana Bendall-Brunello and John Bendall-Brunello|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Little Hog is That's it! But, like all the cutest little thing you ever did see. And that’s a bad thing. Because he never gets peace. Everyone wants to hug him ALL THE TIME. What’s a poor, over-hugged hog to do? Wellbest picture books, in this case, Little Hog has tiny snippet of text is a solution. He makes a bold sign and hangs veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the tree. ''HOGS HAT HUGS!'' it reads. And that’s thatoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0745965148</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)The Farm Shop|author=Peter BrownDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4.5
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|summary=School can be a difficult place Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for children, especially if your teacher is a stomping, roaring monster like Miss Kirbywalk. Bobby spends most of his time worrying about what to do about his monster of a teacher, Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and the best place for him to think about it Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in the parkhis smart grey fur coat. He goes there one day As they walk to contemplate the situationtop of the hill, but who does he meet? Miss Kirbythey see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! She isn't stomping or roaring though, she But this is feeding a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducksand cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447257472</amazonuk>}}
 {{newreview|title=Greek Myths: Stories of Sun, Stone and Sea|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 EratoWhat will they buy? 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>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Sir Scallywag Sadie and the Deadly Dragon PooSea Dogs|author=Giles Andreae Maureen Duffy and Korky PaulAnita Joice|rating=3.5
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|summary=King Colin has spent his fortune on Sadie's mother always said that she was a giant sweet machinedreamer, which he guzzles from each and every dayher mind never on what she should be doing. The entire kingdom has grown fat and lazy, except for Sir Scallywag. It's lucky somebody in She lives by the castle still has their wits about them, because Baron Greedyguts has heard all about their sweet machine, River Thames at Greenwich and he's coming she loves to get it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718197364</amazonuk>}}spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|title=Bob and Rob''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|author=Sue Pickford|rating=4''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=For Sharing |summary=Rob is Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a burglar who is very, very badglass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. Bob is his dog When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, who is verypirates, very goodmermaids and treasure. Well, as good as a dog whose owner is a burglar can be...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804098</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Cantankerous King ColinLittle Gold Ted|author=Phil Allcock Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Steve StoneSasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=King Colin definitely got out of One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the wrong side of the bed this morningstreet. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. He’s being very crotchety ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and rudealerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, but whenever anyone tells who plucks him off he ignores themout of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. After all, Reg is a king can do what kind soul and he wantsdries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861133</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Hocus Pocus DiplodocusRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Steve Howson Mayuri Naidoo and Kate DaubneyCaroline Siegal|rating=54
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|summary=Magic Remy is a lot of funfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but did you ever think about how it started? Pre-David Blaine? Pre-Dynamo? Pre-Paul Daniels they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and Debbie McGee? You need to look much then push him just that little bit further back than when the 80s to find the answerother kids are around. So, you knowwhen Remy reacts, because the first magician it looks as though he was in the days of instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the dinosaurs. Meet Hocus Pocus Diplodocusteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861125</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Nine Words MaxThe Invisible|author=Dan Bar-El and David HuyckTom Percival
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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 the same the world over, and it’s true whoever you are, from an average Joe to a member of the Royal Family. Prince Max This is a talker, full of fun, interesting facts and observations he’s keen to share with everyone around him. His brothers, on the other hand, are boys story of fewer wordsIsobel, and don’t have much time for Max’s waffling on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1770495622</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=None The Number (The Hueys)|author=Oliver Jeffers|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''A Counting Adventure!'' the subtitle of this book boasts. How exciting! I love numbers and counting, and so does a little boy I knowgirl who made a big difference. This one’s a bit old for him just yet – he’s the wrong side of 24 months – but I can’t wait to share it Isobel lived with him her parents in the future. The item of question here is whether 0 is a number. After all, house - a number is something you can count. And if there’s 1 of something and you take 1 awayvery cold house, you’re left with a different numberbecause her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: 0|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007420692</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=The Very Noisy House|author=Julie Rhodes and Korky Paul|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I might live in ''Ice curled across the middle inside of the country now, with nothing but pheasants window and crept up the odd wild turkey for neighbours, but I remember well what it’s like to live in corner of the hustle and bustlebedpost. 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 ''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 School|author=Helen Stephens|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=What a lovely book! Betsy is a big grown up girl so it’s time The family didn't go to start school, the cinema or on holidays but that’s a scary thing to do. There are so many they had each other boys and girls there, and she doesnthey were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't know any afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of themthe city. Will she make it through This part of the first day with no tears?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268239</amazonuk>city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dylan's Amazing Dinosaurs - the Tyrannosaurus RexNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=E T Harper and Dan TaylorOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Everyone love dinosaursMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, that is as long as they stay millions of years who lives in the past and don’t suddenly turn up in the park next time I am having a picnic. Dylan is a character who certainly loves dinosaursBeartown, enough so that he is able to travel back in time to answer any questions he may have obsessed with bears. She collects books about their existencebears. Seems Her favourite toy is Berisford, a little dangerous to meteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, especially when he comes up against the king she looks out of lizards in E T Harper her bedroom window and Dan Taylor’ssays goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, ‘Dylan's Amazing Dinosaurs - the Tyrannosaurus Rex’a colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471119343</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|title=Children are Naughty|author=Vincent Cuvellier and Aurelie Guillerey|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Children are naughty. You don't have to tell me that. I have two monsters, one of whom I found this very morning standing Move on top of the toilet and putting nappy cream all over himself (fully clothed, of course!) I only left the bathroom for a moment! Anyway, this story tells you all about the naughty antics that children can get up to, with everything from biting to throwing food on the floor! Prepare yourself, things could get messy...!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263265</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]