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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Heart HolidaysAdam Stower|authortitle=Clara VulliamyMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Martha Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and her bunny brothers are going on holiday friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the seaside and ittwo. But he's charming. They’re in a vintage camper vanbad magician's cat, and while a traffic jam holds them up so his favourite bun has been turned into a bithyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they're soon on the beach and ready to swim. Wellboth use can chuck them out, Martha is. But not into the boys don't want to so instead they have sandcastle building competitionsregular back garden, and a picnic and but into a paddle world of frightening adventure and some ice creamswhiffs. Every This time Martha mentions the searound it drops them into a Viking land, where a new plan emerges. Will anyone ever go in the water with her?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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000741921X</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=DanloriaThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Secret Forest of Germania Sour Milk Dragon|author=Gloria D GonsalvesWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Stan loves to go When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for walks their lives in the forest Forest of Danloria, located in Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the seven hills of GermaniaSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He goes with 's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his father almost every daynostrils. One particular day, Stan (Please don's father is ill in bed and cant try this at home: it won't take him outend well. And that's ) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when Fern appears. Stan notices the plant waving to him a ladder of moss and can't help but investigate. Fern has an invitation vines was lowered for Stanthem, they escaped. He wants to take him They climbed up to the secret parts of Tree Wee homes high up in the forest, to a party. Stan has a fabulous timetangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, meeting all the plants Nester Nook and finding out about the various ways in which they benefit humanity. The following spring, Stan is racking his brains to think of the perfect gift for his mother's fortieth birthday party when Fern appears again. More friends of the forest supply presents more wonderful than Stan could ever have dreamed of. A firm friendship ensuesGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1491876964</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Busiest People EverOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Richard ScarryChris Green and Jenny Fionda
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|summary=I suspect lots 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 us grown ups feel silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. a certain amount On top of nostalgia when we come across the ice was a Richard Scarry bookpolar bear. He has such a distinctive style that you recognise it immediately As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and find yourself hunting for Huckle with wobbly legs moved from the pig and Lowly wormice. This book tells us Kit was all about Busytown for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and the different things that are going on theregave him one apple and then another. I actually didn't get He obviously needed to read be taken home on the story properly until I sat down to write this review because although this has become bus and given a firm favourite with my two year old son he has no patience for the story good meal and instead just wants somewhere to spend all his time looking at all the many, many different kinds of vehicles there are throughout the book!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000754636X</amazonuk>sleep. What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Following the TractorLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Susan SteggallLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=There's only one thing that you need to know Todd was excited about this book and that's that it is about a tractor. Not sold? Wellspending the weekend with his grandmother, your under five will be but in case you require further persuasion, try this out for sizenot least because she made the best beetle juice. The tractor is red He packed two pairs of dungarees and appears on every page his favourite hat and on one page (could there be more joy?), there is also a blue tractor and a green combine harvester. I've yet then gathered together his button collection to meet a child who doesn't like a tractorshow his grandmother. My local rhyme time librarian introduced a toy for each verse of Old McDonald then She had promised to take him to invest in additional vehicles for the tractor round 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 was less 'brrmm brrmm here' more 'toddler fisticuffs there'might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804896</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=I Don't Want To Go To SchoolThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Stephanie BlakeAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey
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|summary=Simon is a rabbitElsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. A cheeky rabbit. So when his mum tells him he’s starting school in Elsie would race the buses along the side of the morning, park but David couldn't - he doesn’t accept this. He answers back. ''I’m not going'' he saysd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. And while 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 first home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it seems he’s just being stubborn. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, over night hoping that the truth comes out: he’s actually a little bit scaredexperts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579041</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing1529504767|authortitle=Bob Hartman|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=From the Montagues and the Capulets to the Sharks and the Jets, there are some groups who just can't mix without fireworks resulting. A sheep making friends with a Wolf was never going to end well. ''The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing'' tells the tale of one little lamb who decides to go to Wolf school. She's bored of the day to day routine of being a sheep. The daily dips, the badminton playing, the endless knitting. 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 that it's ok to be friends with someone who is outwardly quite different to yourself...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745965156</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Christmas Doll (The Dinosaurs are Having a Party!Repair Shop Stories)|author=Gareth P Jones Amy Sparkes and Garry ParsonsKatie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=YouSusan 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've hired t have worried though as she went to the clown, there appears to be enough food home of Mr and goodie bags for everyoneMrs Russell, but who couldn't have you made one fatal mistake? been kinder to her. Is the venue big enough, this is after She even had her own room - all a party for dinosaursto herself. 'The Dinosaurs are Having a Party!’ tells of one such party fully populated by our extinct friends; apart from one small boy Gradually she relaxed and his dogbegan to enjoy her life. Everything at She'd help Mrs Russell with the party appears baking and when it came to be fine, but where is Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the food?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440376</amazonuk>following morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Mungo Monkey Goes to SchoolSqueakily Baby|author=Lydia MonksBeth Webb
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|summary=Going Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to school is a huge milestone for any childsleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and it can be scary''wails''. This book works hard The sea offers to stop help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...'' And for a moment it seeming so daunting, pitching itself really well seems to make school feel fun, exciting have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and like a very appealing adventurewe know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140526909X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Mine!A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Jerome Keane and Susana de DiosBriony May Smith
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|summary=Horse and Fox are really bored. Nothing had happened for ages, until Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the egg arrivedOld Oak Road. In this lovely book, they are forced She wrote to try and share, the mayor about the problem but they arendidn't particularly good at iteven get a reply. I really love Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the style benefits of this book, it uses bold, different colour schemes to make it instantly eye catching the lollipop lady at the school crossing and engagingdecided that she would set up something similar herself. The text has an immediately Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious sense of humour whilst still managing to be simple enough for early readers . All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to graspprovide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Bocchi and Pocchi and the BirdLeilong's Too Long!|author=Noriko MatsubaraJulia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=34
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|summary=Bocchi and Pocchi are a pair of fluffyEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, colourful socksmakes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and the leads in this bookslide down his neck. I suppose talking socks It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is no different from talking monkeys or talking robots or aliens. This a book for pre-schoolersproblem, though. Anything goes. And it Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's not like theylonger than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can're not happy, friendly, helpful sockst be the bus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991015</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=My New HomeBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Marta AltesDavid Elliott
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|summary=We moved house a lot when I was love a child. good board book! I became an accomplished letter writer in ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a desperate attempt to keep in touch with old friends. I wish I had had a book like this one. Itniche market: it's hard moving home as a for the childwho still enjoys board books (er, and as much as grown ups see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can tell you it's exciting 'play'' with words and wonderful and won't it be marvellous to make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a new pink bedroom it actually leaves you feeling very lost tutu - and scared and alonebecomes a ''balletphant''. This story introduces us to a little raccoon The buffalo who has moved house had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is struggling a little bit with missing her old friends and making new ones''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447206509</amazonuk>'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Freddy and the Pig1838226834|author=Charlie Higson and Mark Chambers|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summarytitle=When Freddy send a pig to school in his place, wearing his school uniform and not looking entirely dissimilar to him, he thinks he's hit upon Carried Away With the perfect plan! The pig can work all day in school whilst he stays at home and plays his console game and eats and eats, and no one will ever know!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112373X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=What I Think About When I Think About... SwimmingCarnival|author=Eleanor Levenson and Katie O'HaganEd Boxall
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|summary=On the face It was one of it, this is a very simple bookthose memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. Straight forward images and very few words would lead you They're there to believe undo all the good that this was a book for a very young audience. This is not, howeverparents do, so the casetrips out were always so much fun. While it does work well for a younger reader, it also manages A young boy was going to raise some very interesting questionsthe carnival with his Grandad, such as that of climate change or 'what it will be like to be old'. This makes for an intriguing read, as there are times where the juxtapositioning of the images and text make it a little difficult to pitch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991023</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Almost Fearless Hamilton SquidleggerReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Timothy Basil EringCordellya Smith
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|summary=Little froglet Hamilton Squidlegger prides himself on his braveryWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Armed with his wooden sword Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and shield'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, he loves to battle imaginary monstersunfortunately, such as not the skelecragon, bracklesneed and fire-breathing frackensnapperability to use it well. Hamilton fears nothing. Nothing that is, except BEDTIME He liked to trick other animals. As soon as the sun goes down He was also jealous which was how he jumps from his own mud bed and clambers came to be in a race with mum Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and dadsee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353795</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ElephantRob Keeley|authortitle=Suzi EszterhasCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=''Elephant'' Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is part of the wonderful ''Eye keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on the Wild'' series by award-winning wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhastrees. The book follows Infuriated, Lily checks with the journey of a young bull elephant calf from birth through adulthood. The vivid full-page photographs show heartwarming snapshots of life teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the herd; a purely matriarchal society where strong females form a close family bond and work hard rearing ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and protecting their youngeveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805035</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''
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|summary=All hippopotamuses want Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to do talk about and joke about, that is play in the bath and eat salady things. If But horribly embarrassing if you follow these instructions then any hippopotamus who turns up let one go at your house the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will be thrilled to call laugh. At you their friend; just don. Justine Avery't forget to open s latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the door very w i d e when they arrivefamiliar humour attached, otherwise theyexplains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''ll never get in!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804551</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=TigerWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Suzi EszterhasJustine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=''TigerWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is a simply stunning picture book following the lives of a tiger family latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from birth to adulthoodJustine Avery. Each page is filled with enchanting pictures This series of fun picture books aims to take the tigers in the wildpain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, taken by award-winning photographer Suzi Eszterhasas any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805043</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Katie's Picture ShowWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=James MayhewPeter Cotton
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|summary=Can there Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be a better way of bringing the world of art and the classic masterpieces alive meeting Fred-Fred for children than the charming Katie series? This particular story is the one that started it reasons which will become all twenty five years ago and this celebratory issue has been beautifully re-illustrated by [[too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself:Category:James Mayhew|James Mayhew]] throughout and I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is also in a slightly larger format too. As the tiny figure of Katie stands dwarfed on the steps of the grand National Gallery with her Grandma, her happy attitude snake and cheerful disregard for rules such as ''Please do not touch'' teaches children not to be afraid even those of art and gently encourages us who have a curious attitude not only phobia about snakes are going to paintings but warm to all their surroundingshim. The formal atmosphere He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of an art gallery is made more engaging and child friendly as the paintings come family, to life the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a friendly tiger, tea and cakes and a new playmate for Katiewalk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833240X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Big Day for MigsJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Jo HodgkinsonEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Can potty training ever be joyous? Itoften isn's summer which means new school uniforms are in the shopst, new stationery is on every shelf, and for those starting school for the first timeas any parent will tell you. But really, therewhy shouldn's a wealth of Starting school books t it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to ease the transitionlearn about everything else when we are small. This is a Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun new addition to the shelves that ticks all the boxes: colourfulas, inventivesay, sweet learning about why the sun and, best of all, told the moon take turns in rhyme. I love rhyme.the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440384</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Flying BathJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Julia Donaldson and David RobertsNo, No, No!|rating=4.5
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|summary=It’s long been accepted that when you go to school and your parents They say the best picture books are at workthe simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, your toys come alive and have adventures until you return. EVERYBODY knows that. But have you ever thought about the other things in your house and whether they have a second life? Here’s a hint: they DO. Welcome to the Flying BathBookbag favourite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230742602</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Marshmallows for MartiansThe Farm Shop|author=Lee WildishDevon Avery, Adam Guillain Justine Avery and Charlotte GuillainEma Tepic
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|summary=What kid doesn't like sweets or aliens? This book combines Kirelle and her best friend Sam the two cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as George packs up and leaves ever in his house on smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a mission to Mars to find out what sweets aliens love bestsign outside. He builds It's a spaceship farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and takes offchickens, meeting and even some very surprising aliens along the waymice. From the first pageExcited, I knew I would enjoy this story Kirelle and I wasn't disappointed at all. I laughed throughout and looked forward to turning each page to find out what happened nextSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266813</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Tales From Hans Christian AndersenLittle Gold Ted|author=Naomi Lewis Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Emma Chichester ClarkSasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=As One day, Gold Ted falls into a child, fairy tales for me were synonymous with puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and the Ladybird Classics serieswater is swirling. Whilst Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the memory side of the stories and street. Finding himself down in the accompanying paintings remains very freshsewer, I don’t recall any mention being made of the original authorsTed starts to panic. I was eager then to read ''Tales from Hans Christian AndersenOH HELP ME PLEASE''he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, a collection who plucks him out of nine storiesthe dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and identify which classic tales from my childhood he wrotedries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805108</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=My Amazing DadRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Ross CollinsMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal
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|summary=Snip the little crocodile Remy is worriedfeeling miserable. He doesn't know what his dad does all days let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, All together with his friends seem sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to have really cool dadswind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. Monkey's dad is super fast at swinging through So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the treesinstigator. Little zebra's dad is excellent And then he gets into trouble at hiding, school and Snip's elephant friend's dad is amazing at spraying water higher than the highest tree. Poor Snip doesnteachers don't think that his dad can do any of those thingsbelieve him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122581</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=SupertatoThe Invisible|author=Sue HendraTom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=Oh my goodnessThis is the story of Isobel, whatever can we do? a little girl who made a big difference. There's an evil pea on the loose Isobel lived with her parents in the supermarket, causing havoc wherever he goes! He has stickya house -plastered poor carrot to the conveyor belt, and drawn a mustache and glasses on broccolivery cold house, and poor old cucumber has been mummified with a bandage! Still, try to calm your frayed nerves because, never fear, Supertato is here her parents couldn't afford to save put the day!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074474</amazonuk>}}heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Light-Fingered LarryNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Jan FearnleyOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Larry the Octopus has eight tentaclesMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, and each and every one is used to half inch other people's stuffobsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. As he travels through Bottlenose BayEvery night, he fills his net with more she looks out of her bedroom window and more loot until everyone has just had enoughsays goodnight to the bear statue outside. Officer Pavani comes Every morning she says hello to the rescueBee Bear, but will Larry manage to escape?a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405265388</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}