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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Following the TractorAdam Stower|authortitle=Susan SteggallMurray 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…
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|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon
|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
|rating=4
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|summary=ThereWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they's only one thing that you need to know re running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about this book and that: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's that it is about a tractor. Not sold? Wellright behind them, your under five will be but in case you require further persuasionspewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this out for sizeat home: it won't end well. The tractor is red and appears on every page and on one page (could there be more joy?) Fortunately, there is also they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a blue tractor ladder of moss and a green combine harvestervines was lowered for them, they escaped. I've yet They climbed up to meet a child who doesn't like a tractor. My local rhyme time librarian introduced a toy for each verse of Old McDonald then had to invest the Tree Wee homes high up in additional vehicles for the tractor round as it was less 'brrmm brrmm here' more 'toddler fisticuffs there'tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804896</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=I Don't Want To Go To SchoolOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Stephanie BlakeChris Green and Jenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=Simon is 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 rabbitsnowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. A cheeky rabbit On top of the ice was a polar bear. So when his mum tells him he’s starting school in As the ice bumped onto the morningsand, he doesn’t accept thisthe bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. He answers back. ''I’m not going'' he says. And while at first Kit was all for making a run for it seems he’s just being stubborn, over night but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the truth comes out: he’s actually bus and given a little bit scaredgood meal and somewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579041</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=The Sheep in WolfLet's ClothingCelebrate Being Different|author=Bob HartmanLainey Dee
|rating=3.5
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|summary=From Todd was excited about spending the Montagues and the Capulets to the Sharks and weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the Jets, there are some groups who just can't mix without fireworks resultingbest beetle juice. A sheep making friends with a Wolf was never going to end well. ''The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing'' tells the tale He packed two pairs of one little lamb who decides to go dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to Wolf schoolshow his grandmother. She's bored of had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the day local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to day routine of being a sheepmake new friends. The daily dipsAt home, the badminton playing, the endless knittinghis only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Mum's knitting comes in handy though as a wolf suit flies off her needles. This enables Little Sheep, suitably disguised, to trot off to Wolf School and learn Grandma thought that it's ok to might be friends with someone who is outwardly quite because he looked different to yourself...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745965156</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Dinosaurs are Having a Party!1529504775|authortitle=Gareth P Jones and Garry Parsons|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=You've hired the clown, there appears to be enough food and goodie bags for everyone, but have you made one fatal mistake? Is the venue big enough, this is after all a party for dinosaurs. 'The Dinosaurs are Having a Party!’ tells of one such party fully populated by our extinct friends; apart from one small boy and his dog. Everything at the party appears to be fine, but where is the food?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440376</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Mungo Monkey Goes to School|author=Lydia Monks|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Going to school is a huge milestone for any child, and it can be scary. This book works hard to stop it seeming so daunting, pitching itself really well to make school feel fun, exciting and like a very appealing adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140526909X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Mine!Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Jerome Keane Amy Sparkes and Susana de DiosKatie Hickey
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|summary=Horse Elsie and Fox are really boredher 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. Nothing had happened 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 agesit as cash was tight at home. Gradually, until David learned to stand up, use the egg arrived. In this lovely bookbus for support, they are forced to try and share, but they aren't particularly good at walk behind it. I really love Many decades later, Elsie brought the style of this bookbus, it uses boldnow damaged and rusted, different colour schemes to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it instantly eye catching and engaging. The text has an immediately obvious sense of humour whilst still managing to be simple enough for early readers to graspso that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331365</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Bocchi and Pocchi and the BirdThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Noriko MatsubaraAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=35
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|summary=Bocchi Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and Pocchi are a pair nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of fluffyMr and Mrs Russell, colourful socks, and the leads in this book. I suppose talking socks is no different from talking monkeys or talking robots or alienswho couldn't have been kinder to her. This a book for pre She even had her own room -schoolersall to herself. Anything goes Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. And She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it's not like they're not happy, friendly, helpful sockscame to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991015</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=My New HomeSqueakily Baby|author=Marta AltesBeth Webb
|rating=4
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|summary=We moved house a lot when I was Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a childsqueakily baby. I became an accomplished letter writer in a desperate attempt He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to keep in touch with old friendssleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. I wish I had had a book like this oneThe sea offers to help. Itrocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''s hard moving home as . Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a child, sandy beach and as much as grown ups can tell you ithave the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'s exciting and wonderful and won't And for a moment it be marvellous seems to have a new pink bedroom it actually leaves you feeling very lost and scared and aloneworked as Baby closes his eyes. This story introduces us to Then a little raccoon who has moved house seagull '''shouts''' and who is struggling a little bit with missing her old friends and making new oneswe know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447206509</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Freddy and the PigA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Charlie Higson and Mark ChambersBriony May Smith
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|summary=When Freddy send Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a pig bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school in his place, wearing his school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and not looking entirely dissimilar lollipop stick were both a little amateur to him, he thinks he's hit upon start with but the perfect plan! benefits were obvious. The pig can work all day in school whilst he stays at home All the animals used the crossing and plays his console game and eats and eats, and no one will ever know!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112373X</amazonuk>Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=What I Think About When I Think About... SwimmingLeilong's Too Long!|author=Eleanor Levenson Julia Liu and Katie O'HaganBei Lynn
|rating=4
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|summary=On Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the face of itcity, this is a very simple bookpicking up children as he goes. Straight forward images Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and very few words would lead you to believe that this was a book for a very young audienceslide down his neck. This is not It's perfect, however, the case. While isn't it does work well for ? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a younger readerproblem, though. it also manages to raise some very interesting questions, such as that of climate change or Leilong isn't happy in the city: he'what it will be like s always having to be old'. This makes for an intriguing read, as there are times careful about where the juxtapositioning of the images he puts his feet and text make it – because he's longer than a little difficult tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to pitchand traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991023</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=The Life of a CarBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Susan SteggallDavid Elliott|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=As the daughter of I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a car worker and niche market: it's for the mother of a little boy child who is fascinated by wheelsstill enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''The Life of a Carplay'' stood out on the shelfwith words and make something quite different from each one. Part of We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''Busy Wheelsballetphant'' series, this non fiction picture book illustrates the life cycle of . The buffalo who has had a car from manufacture to scrapping bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with the help of just the odd word or two or threea hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804217</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=S The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is for South Africa|author=Beverley Naidoo and Prodeepta Das|rating=4a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm....5|genre=Children's Non-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, animals, music and family life and each subject is accompanied by one of Prodeepta Das’s stunning photos. The poetic text flows and this would work well read aloud.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805027</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=The Almost Fearless Hamilton SquidleggerCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Timothy Basil EringEd Boxall
|rating=4
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|summary=Little froglet Hamilton Squidlegger prides himself on his braveryIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. Armed with his wooden sword and shield, he loves They're there to battle imaginary monsters, such as undo all the skelecragon, bracklesneed and fire-breathing frackensnapper. Hamilton fears nothing. Nothing good that isparents do, except BEDTIMEso the trips out were always so much fun. As soon as A young boy was going to the sun goes down he jumps from carnival with his own mud bed and clambers in with mum and dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353795</amazonuk>}}Grandad, who told him:
{{newreview|title=Elephant|author=Suzi Eszterhas|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''ElephantIt'll be brilliant, just remember, don' is part t let go of the wonderful ''Eye on the Wildmy hand.'' series by award-winning wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas. The book follows the journey of a young bull elephant calf from birth through adulthood. The vivid full-page photographs show heartwarming snapshots of life in the herd; a purely matriarchal society where strong females form a close family bond and work hard rearing and protecting their young.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805035</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=ThatOtter's What Makes a Hippopotamus Smile!Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Sean Taylor and Laurent CardonCordellya Smith
|rating=4
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|summary=All hippopotamuses want to do is play in 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 strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the bath present ''and eat salady things'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. If you follow these instructions then any hippopotamus who turns up at your house will He was also jealous which was how he came to be thrilled to call you their friend; just donin a race with Turtle. You might think that't forget to open the door very w i d e when they arrive, otherwise s not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as theyseem. I'll never get in!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804551</amazonuk>tell you how it came about.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TigerRob Keeley|authortitle=Suzi EszterhasCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=''Tiger'' Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is a simply stunning picture book following the lives of a tiger family from birth keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to adulthoodeat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Each page is filled Infuriated, Lily checks with enchanting pictures of the tigers teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the wildground. Jordan says, taken by award-winning photographer Suzi Eszterhas"I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805043</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=KatieYou Can's Picture Showt Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=James MayhewJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=43.5
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|summary=Can ''For the big, grownup girls out 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 potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the one that started it all twenty five years ago and this celebratory issue has been beautifully rebig-illustrated by [[:Category:James Mayhew|James Mayhew]] throughout girl kind!) of toilet triumph and is also in a slightly larger format toopersevering panty pride. As the tiny figure of Katie stands dwarfed on the steps of the grand National Gallery with her Grandma, her happy attitude and cheerful disregard for rules such as ''Please do not touch'' teaches children not to be afraid of art and gently encourages a curious attitude not only to paintings but to all their surroundings. The formal atmosphere of an art gallery is made more engaging and child friendly as the paintings come to life with a friendly tiger, tea and cakes and a new playmate for Katie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833240X</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview
|title=A Big Day for Migs
|author=Jo Hodgkinson
|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's summer which means new school uniforms are in the shops, new stationery is on every shelf, and for those starting school for the first time, there's a wealth of Starting school books to ease the transition. This is a fun new addition to the shelves that ticks all the boxes: colourful, inventive, sweet and, best of all, told in rhyme. I love rhyme.
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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=The Flying BathJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Julia Donaldson and David RobertsEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=It’s long been accepted Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that when you go doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to school talk about and your parents are at workjoke about, your toys come alive and have adventures until you return. EVERYBODY knows thatis. But have horribly embarrassing if you ever thought about let one go at the other things wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in your house her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and whether they have a second life? Here’s a hint: they DO. Welcome to calmly, with the Flying Bathfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230742602</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Milly and the MermaidsWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Maudie Smith Justine Avery and Antonia WoodwardSeema Amjad
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Mermaids are a great way to stretch young imaginations. Imagine living ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in an underwater world, swimming with the fishes in a pleasant way (rather than in a Mafioso way)''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This is exactly series of fun picture books aims to take the type pain out of excitement that Milly longs for in ‘Milly potty training children and the Mermaids’ by Maudie Smith and Antonia Woodwardreplace it with some fun. When her parents take her on It's a trip to the seasideworthy aim, all she can think of is finding a Mermaid, but do they really exist?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006932</amazonuk>as any frustrated parent will tell you. .
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter BrownCotton
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|summary=School can Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a difficult place for children, especially if your teacher bit more about Fred. Fred is a stomping, roaring monster like Miss Kirby. Bobby spends most snake and even those of his time worrying us who have a phobia about what snakes are going to do about his monster of warm to him. He arrived as a present in a teacher, box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the best place for him family, to think about it is in the parkextent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. He goes there one day to contemplate And that was where the situation, but who does he meet? Miss Kirby! She isnproblem started. Fred didn't stomping or roaring though, she is feeding the duckshave any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447257472</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fiddlesticks!Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Sean Taylor and Sally Anne GarlandEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=3.54
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|summary=This is the story of a Mouse with very helpful friendsCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, maybe even a little too helpful! Each time they fix something in his newas any parent will tell you. But really, almost perfect house, they break something why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything elsewhen we are small. Things escalate until there is almost nothing left of Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the house at all sun and poor Mouse is despairing. What will he do to make things better and, more to the point, where will he livemoon take turns in the sky?! His friends soon come to the rescue and manage to make amends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857076159</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Marshmallows for MartiansJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Lee WildishNo, No, Adam Guillain and Charlotte GuillainNo!
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|summary=What kid doesn't like sweets or aliens? This book combines They say the two as George packs up and leaves his house on a mission to Mars to find out what sweets aliens love bestpicture books are the simplest ones. He builds And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a spaceship and takes offBookbag favourite. ''No, meeting some very surprising aliens along the way. From the first pageNo, I knew I would enjoy this story and I wasnNo!''t disappointed at all. I laughed throughout and looked forward to turning each page to find out what happened nextis based around the simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266813</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Cat and Dog|author=Michael Foreman|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Cat is only doing the motherly thing and looking after her kittens when tragedy strikes. As she goes off to find them food''No, she accidentally gets whisked away in the fishmonger’s van. How will they survive? When night fallsno, who will protect them from the baddies that lurk on the streets? Sometimes, though, friends can come in the most unlikely of formsno! Okay, and in this case it’s Dogokay. He’s no substitute mumYes, thoughyou may. Will Cat find her way back to her brood?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440112</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=Tales From Hans Christian Andersen|author=Naomi Lewis and Emma Chichester Clark|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=As a childThat's it! But, fairy tales for me were synonymous with like all the Ladybird Classics series. Whilst the memory best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the stories and the accompanying paintings remains very fresh, I don’t recall any mention being made of inside that it appears on 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 wroteoutside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805108</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=My Amazing DadThe Farm Shop|author=Ross CollinsDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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|summary=Snip Kirelle and her best friend Sam the little crocodile cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is worried. He doesn't know what perfectly turned out as ever in his dad does all daysmart grey fur coat. All his friends seem As they walk to have really cool dadsthe top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. MonkeyIt's dad a farm shop! But this is super fast at swinging through a farm shop with a difference: all the treesstallholders and customers are farmyard animals. Little zebra's dad is excellent at hidingThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and Snip's elephant friend's dad is amazing at spraying water higher than the highest treeeven some mice. Poor Snip doesn't think that his dad can do any of those thingsExcited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122581</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=SupertatoSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Sue HendraMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Oh my goodness, whatever can we do? ThereSadie's an evil pea mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on the loose in the supermarket, causing havoc wherever he goes! what she should be doing. He has sticky-plastered poor carrot to She lives by the conveyor belt, River Thames at Greenwich and drawn a mustache and glasses on broccoli, and poor old cucumber has been mummified with a bandage! Still, try she loves to calm your frayed nerves because, never fear, Supertato is here to save the day!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074474</amazonuk>}}spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|title=Chicken Clicking''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|author=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross|rating=4''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=For Sharing |summary=Chick has a problemHer imagination was fired. Every night, when She'd love to sail the farmer and his wife are asleep, she sneaks into their house oceans on an ancient sailing ship and goes online on their computer to order thingswent back regularly. She starts with One day she fell asleep under a teapot, and a motorbike! Soon sheglass case (it's the one where Nelson's buying diamond watches Trafalgar breeches are on show) and a hundred handbags, for which missed the farmer blames his wife - she, of course, gets angry closing bell and blames his dodgy software since the attendant's warning shout. When she certainly didnwoke (hard floors don't order those things! Chick starts to buy gifts for all her farm animal friends, but all too soon make comfy beds) she realises was in the midst of an adventure that she's alone on the farm and could never have imagined in need a world of a frienddolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure. Can she find one online?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344052X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=The Secret Dinosaur: Giants AwakeLittle Gold Ted|author=N S BlackmanVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=When Marlin Maxton goes on One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a school visit to deep puddle and the local museum, he water is looking forward swirling. Poor Ted starts to seeing Protos - spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the dinosaur that his Uncle Gus remembers so fondlyside of the street. But Protos is nowhere Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to be seen panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the museum's Mr Grubbler seems to be doing his utmost to take all attention of Reg the fun sewer rat, who plucks him out of the school visit Marlin had been anticipating with such excitementdirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. So Marlin sneaks Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off to explore by himself..and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992752507</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Light-Fingered LarryRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Jan FearnleyMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Larry the Octopus has eight tentacles, and each and every one Remy is used to half inch other peoplefeeling miserable. He's stufflet himself down ''again''. As he travels through Bottlenose BayThe school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he fills his net with more is short and more loot until everyone has just had enoughsmall eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. Officer Pavani comes They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the rescueother kids are around. So, but will Larry manage when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to escape?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405265388</amazonuk>explain what happened.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1471191303
|title=The Invisible
|author=Tom Percival
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|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on:
{{newreview|title=The Lazy Friend|author=Ronan Badel|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=In a remote jungle, near ''Ice curled across the top inside of the forest canopy, Sloth, Snake, Frog window and Bird hang out together. Whilst his pals play cards, Sloth does what he does best, sleep. When a lumberjack fells crept up the tree that they are sitting in, three corner 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 itbedpost. Can Snake save the day and get them both back home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>192727141X</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=Hogs Hate Hugs|author=Tiziana Bendall-Brunello The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and John Bendall-Brunello|rating=3|genre=For Sharing|summary=Little Hog is they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the cutest little thing you ever did see. And that’s a bad thing. Because he never gets peace. Everyone wants rent for the house and they had to move to hug him ALL THE TIMEthe far side of the city. What’s a poor This part of the city was cold, over-hugged hog to do? Well, in this case, Little Hog has a solution. He makes a bold sign sad and lonely and hangs it on the tree. ''HOGS HAT HUGS!'' it reads. And that’s thatIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745965148</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)Nick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Peter BrownOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=School can be a difficult place for Many childrenhave an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, especially if your teacher is a stomping, roaring monster like Miss Kirbyobsessed with bears. Bobby spends most of his time worrying She collects books about what to do about his monster of bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teacherteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and the best place for him says goodnight to think about it is in the parkbear statue outside. He goes there one day Every morning she says hello to contemplate the situationBee Bear, but who does he meet? Miss Kirbya colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper! She isn't stomping or roaring though, she is feeding the ducks.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447257472</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
 {{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 Move on Greek mythology that highlight a gap in my knowledge and make me yearn for the classical education that I never had. Who or what is Erato? Should I be concerned if I meet Kerberos? And why did a delivery company decide to call itself Hermes? Consequently, I had high hopes for ''Greek Myths: Stories of Sun, Stone and Sea'', a collection of ten myths retold for children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805086</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]