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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=You Are (Not) SmallFrontpage|author=Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet little purple critter. He is small. Big orange critter tells him so. And indeed, he is smaller than big orange critter, just a fraction of his size. But wait. What if he’s not small, but big orange critter is the weirdo? What is he’s big? Did you ever think of that, Mr big orange critter?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918303</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAdam Stower|title=The Something|author=Rebecca CobbMurray and Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=''The Something'' 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 those great books which instantly captures your imagination with a very simple ideathe two. The premise is that But he's a boy loses bad magician's cat, so his ball when it falls down favourite bun has been turned into a small hole underneath hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the cherry tree in his regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. What could 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 inside the hole? He asks his friends and family and they all come up with lots of different suggestionshonest, but will he ever find out what it actually is?'s turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230764827</amazonuk>0008561249
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Digby Dog DeliversThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: A Search and Find BookOne: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Tor FreemanWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Digby Dog When 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 off on chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his roundsnostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, delivering they escaped. They climbed up to the post. But he might need some help finding Tree Wee homes high up in the people his parcels are fortangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, can you help him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230770886</amazonuk>Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=Pete On the Cat and His Four Groovy ButtonsBeach: The Winter Visitor|author=Eric Litwin Chris Green and James DeanJenny Fionda|rating=4.5
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|summary=Pete 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 Cat has put his favourite shirt onshoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, you know the one, bear woke and with four groovy buttons? And he loves wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. But what happens when those buttons start He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to fall off one by onesleep. What else would you do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007553676</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Smelly LouieLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Catherine RaynerLainey Dee|rating=3.5
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|summary=Louie is a smelly dogTodd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, until 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 owner gives grandmother. She had promised to take him a bathto the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. Suddenly everything is wrong At home, his only friend was his mum and Louie doesn't smell like himself any morehe wondered why that could be. Will Grandma thought that it might be because he be able to find his own smell again? Let's hope so!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230742505</amazonuk>looked different.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=The Scarecrows' WeddingToy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Julia Donaldson Amy Sparkes and Axel SchefflerKatie Hickey
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|summary=Betty O'Barley Elsie and Harry O'Hay are going her little brother David loved to get married, in fact they're going go to have the best wedding yet, park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the wedding that no one will ever forgetpark but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. So they make One day Elsie spotted a wedding list bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and set off around was happy to use the farm coins from her money box to find the things they needpay for it as cash was tight at home. Harry goes off on his own Gradually, David learned to find pink flowersstand up, but use the question is will he be back in time bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the wedding?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407144413</amazonuk>bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Bear and Bee: Too BusyThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Sergio RuzzierAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=3.5
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|summary=Bear is trying 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't have worried though as she went to do lots the home of fun thingsMr and Mrs Russell, but theywho couldn'd t have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all be much more fun if only his friend, Bee, would join into herself. Bee, however, has other ideas Gradually she relaxed and is just too busy began to roll down hills or climb up treesenjoy her life. When Bee is finished She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and wants when it came to play with Bear, Bear is trying to sleep!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423159616</amazonuk>Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morning.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=Ten Little PrincessesSqueakily Baby|author=Mike Brownlow and Simon RickertyBeth Webb|rating=54
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|summary=Ten little princesses are going to a ballMuch as mothers love their babies, but not there's something they all of them may get theredread - a squeakily baby. There are lots of distractions between the castle He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and the dance floor''wails''. Some of them are less than pleasant, like the scary monsters or the poison apple, not The sea offers to mention help. It rocks Baby gently and the huffingwaves sing ''hush, puffing big bad wolf (can see hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a familiar theme emerging?) Others are much more enticingsandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, like la lay...'' And for a frog just begging moment it seems to be kissed or have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a charming prince (on a skateboard, no less)seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408330105</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=WolfmanA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Michael Rosen and Chris MouldBriony May Smith
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|summary=People are panickingPhilippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. The police are afraid She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. The army have run away Philippa wasn't a 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 crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Who or what could possibly be so scary? It’s Wolf Man Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. And he’s on All the animals used the loosecrossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Lord of the ForestLeilong's Too Long!|author=Caroline Pitcher Julia Liu and Jackie MorrisBei Lynn|rating=54
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|summary=Everything in Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the forest is exciting and new for little tiger city, picking up children as he explores goes. Children who live at the world around him. His mother has told him top of The Lord tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the Forest window and so he watchesslide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, listens and waits though. Leilong isn't happy in the hope of discovering who this mysterious animal may city: he's always having to be. As time passes careful about where he grows puzzled puts his feet and starts – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to ask the other animals such as the Rhino, the Elephant and the Peacock who The Lord of the Forest is and each in turn claims that it is hetraffic regularly gets snarled up. The tiger does not believe them and continues his search. It is not until the tiger is fully grown with a mate and cubs of his own school decides that he finally discovers the identity of can't be the beast he has been searching forbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805469</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=I Heart HolidaysBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Clara VulliamyDavid Elliott
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|summary=Martha I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and her bunny brothers are going on holiday to make something quite different from each one. We have the seaside elephant who dons a tutu - and itbecomes a ''balletphant''s charming. They’re in The buffalo who has had a vintage camper van, bath (complete with yellow duck) and while then dries off with a traffic jam holds them up hair drier becomes a bit, they're soon on the beach and ready to swim'fluffalo''. Well, Martha The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is. But the boys dona ''crynoceros''t want to so instead they have sandcastle building competitions, and (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a picnic and a paddle and some ice creams''sm....... Every time Martha mentions the sea'' OK, a new plan emerges. Will anyone ever let's not go in the water with her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000741921X</amazonuk>there Some people are eating!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Danloria: The Secret Forest of Germania Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Gloria D GonsalvesEd Boxall
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|summary=Stan loves to go for walks in the forest It was one of Danloria, located in the seven hills of Germania. He goes those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with his father almost every dayour grandparents. One particular day, Stan's father is ill in bed and canThey't take him out. And that's when Fern appears. Stan notices the plant waving to him and can't help but investigate. Fern has an invitation for Stan. He wants to take him re there to undo all the secret parts of the forest, to a party. Stan has a fabulous timegood that parents do, meeting all so the plants and finding trips out about the various ways in which they benefit humanitywere always so much fun. The following spring, Stan is racking his brains A young boy was going to think of the perfect gift for carnival with 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 ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1491876964</amazonuk>}}Grandad, who told him:
{{newreview|title=Busiest People Ever|author=Richard Scarry|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I suspect lots of us grown ups feel a certain amount of nostalgia when we come across a Richard Scarry book. He has such a distinctive style that you recognise it immediately and find yourself hunting for Huckle the pig and Lowly worm. This book tells us all about Busytown and the different things that are going on there. I actually didn't get to read the story properly until I sat down to write this review because although this has become a firm favourite with my two year old son he has no patience for the story and instead 'It'll be brilliant, just wants to spend all his time looking at all the manyremember, many different kinds don't let go of vehicles there are throughout the book!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000754636X</amazonuk>my hand.''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Following the TractorOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Susan SteggallCordellya Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=ThereWhen 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 ''s only one thing that you need to know about this book and that's that it is about a tractor' the future. Not sold? Well Rabbit developed intelligence - but, your under five will be but in case you require further persuasionunfortunately, try this out for size not the ability to use it well. The tractor is red and appears on every page and on one page (could there He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be more joy?), there is also in a blue tractor and a green combine harvesterrace with Turtle. I You might think that've yet to meet s not a child who doesn't like a tractorfair contest but wait and see. My local rhyme time librarian introduced a toy for each verse of Old McDonald then had to invest in additional vehicles for the tractor round Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it was less 'brrmm brrmm here' more 'toddler fisticuffs there'came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804896</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Don't Want To Go To SchoolRob Keeley|authortitle=Stephanie BlakeCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Simon 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 rabbitkeen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. A cheeky rabbitOne day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. So when his mum tells him he’s starting school Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the morning, he doesn’t accept this. He answers background. ''I’m not going'' he Jordan says. And while , "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at first it seems he’s just being stubborn, over night the truth comes out: he’s actually a little bit scaredpoor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579041</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=The Sheep in WolfYou Can's Clothingt Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Bob HartmanJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=From ''For the Montagues and big, grownup girls out there, the Capulets to the Sharks and the Jetspotty masters in training, there are some groups who just can"You Can't mix without fireworks resulting. A sheep making friends with Wear Panties!" is a Wolf was never going to end well. ''The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing'' tells cry (the tale big-girl kind!) of one little lamb who decides to go to Wolf schooltoilet triumph and persevering panty pride. 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>}}
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 Dinosaurs are Having a Party!Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Gareth P Jones and Garry ParsonsEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=YouToots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn've hired the clown, there appears t find them irresistibly funny. Funny to be enough food talk about and goodie bags for everyonejoke about, but have that is. But horribly embarrassing if you made let one fatal mistake? Is go at the venue big enoughwrong time. In class, say, this is after all a party for dinosaurswhen everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''The Dinosaurs are Having a PartyEverybody Potties!’ tells of one such party fully populated by our extinct friends; apart from one small boy '' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and his dog. Everything at calmly, with the party appears to be finefamiliar humour attached, but where explains that tooting is the food?perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440376</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Mungo Monkey Goes to SchoolWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Lydia MonksJustine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5
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|summary=Going to school ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is a huge milestone for any child, and it can be scarythe latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This book works hard series of fun picture books aims to stop take the pain out of potty training children and replace it seeming so daunting, pitching itself really well to make school feel with some fun. It's a worthy aim, exciting and like a very appealing adventureas any frustrated parent will tell you. .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140526909X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Mine!When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Jerome Keane and Susana de DiosPeter Cotton
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|summary=Horse and Fox are really boredMeet Fred. Nothing had happened for ages Well, until the egg arrived. In this lovely bookactually, they are forced you're going to try and share, but they arenbe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I't particularly good at itd better tell you a bit more about Fred. I really love the style Fred is a snake and even those of this book, it uses bold, different colour schemes us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to make it instantly eye catching him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and engaging. The text has an immediately obvious sense became part of humour whilst still managing the family, to be simple enough the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for early readers to graspa walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331365</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bocchi and Pocchi Justine Avery and the BirdNaday Meldova|authortitle=Noriko MatsubaraEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=34
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|summary=Bocchi and Pocchi Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But 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 a pair of fluffysmall. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, colourful sockssay, learning about why the sun and the leads moon take turns in this book. I suppose talking socks is no different from talking monkeys or talking robots or aliens. This a book for pre-schoolers. Anything goes. And it's not like they're not happy, friendly, helpful socks.the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909991015</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=My New HomeJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Marta AltesNo, No, No!
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|summary=We moved house a lot when I was a childThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. I became an accomplished letter writer in And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a desperate attempt to keep in touch with old friendsBookbag favourite. I wish I had had a book like this one. It ''s hard moving home as a childNo, No, and as much as grown ups can tell you itNo!'s exciting and wonderful and won't it be marvellous to have a new pink bedroom it actually leaves you feeling very lost and scared and alone. This story introduces us to a little raccoon who has moved house and who is struggling a little bit with missing her old friends and making new onesbased around the simplest text imaginable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447206509</amazonuk>}}''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.''
{{newreview|title=Freddy and the Pig|author=Charlie Higson and Mark Chambers|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Freddy send a pig to school in his place, wearing his school uniform and not looking entirely dissimilar to him, he thinks heThat's hit upon the perfect planit! The pig can work But, like all day in school whilst he stays at home and plays his console game and eats and eatsthe best picture books, and no one will ever know!this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112373X</amazonuk>1638820457
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=What I Think About When I Think About... SwimmingThe Farm Shop|author=Eleanor Levenson Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Katie O'HaganEma Tepic
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|summary=On Kirelle and her best friend Sam the face of it, this is cat decide to go for a very simple bookwalk. Straight forward images Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and very few words would lead you Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to believe that this was the top of the hill, they see a book for big barn with a very young audiencesign outside. This It's a farm shop! But this is not, however, a farm shop with a difference: all the casestallholders and customers are farmyard animals. While it does work well for a younger readerThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, it also manages to raise and even some very interesting questions, such as that of climate change or 'what it will be like to be old'mice. This makes for an intriguing readExcited, as there are times where the juxtapositioning of the images Kirelle and text make it a little difficult to pitchSam go shopping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991023</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=The Life of a Car|author=Susan Steggall|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=As the daughter of a car worker and the mother of a little boy who is fascinated by wheels, ''The Life of a Car'' stood out on the shelf. Part of the ''Busy Wheels'' series, this non fiction picture book illustrates the life cycle of a car from manufacture to scrapping with the help of just the odd word or two or three.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804217</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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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.
{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|title=S is for South Africa''To the Maritime Museum''. |author=Beverley Naidoo Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and Prodeepta Das|rating=4went back regularly.5|genre=Children One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it'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 one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the Apartheid Museum closing bell and finishing with Zoo Lake the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in Jo’burg the midst of an adventure that she covers many different aspects could never have imagined in a world of life including traditions, food, landscapedolphins, animalspirates, music and family life and each subject is accompanied by one of Prodeepta Das’s stunning photos. The poetic text flows mermaids and this would work well read aloudtreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805027</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=The Almost Fearless Hamilton SquidleggerLittle Gold Ted|author=Timothy Basil EringVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Little froglet Hamilton Squidlegger prides himself 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 his braverythe side of the street. Armed with his wooden sword and shieldFinding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he loves to battle imaginary monsterscries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, such as who plucks him out of the skelecragondirty water using his cane, bracklesneed and fire-breathing frackensnapperwhich might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Hamilton fears nothing. Nothing that Reg is, except BEDTIME. As soon as the sun goes down a kind soul and he jumps from his own mud bed dries Ted off and clambers in warms him up with mum and dada nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353795</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=ElephantB08R7LXQ9S|author=Suzi Eszterhas|rating=5|genretitle=For Sharing|summary=''Elephant'' is part of the wonderful ''Eye on the Wild'' series by award-winning wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas. The Remy: A book follows the journey of a young bull elephant calf from birth through adulthood. The vivid full-page photographs show heartwarming snapshots of life about believing 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>}} {{newreview|title=That's What Makes a Hippopotamus Smile!yourself|author=Sean Taylor Mayuri Naidoo and Laurent CardonCaroline Siegal
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|summary=All hippopotamuses want Remy is feeling 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 they are not stupid. They are careful to do is play in wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the bath and eat salady thingsinstigator. If you follow these instructions And then any hippopotamus who turns up he gets into trouble at your house will be thrilled to call you their friend; just school and the teachers don't forget believe him when he tries to open the door very w i d e when they arrive, otherwise they'll never get in!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804551</amazonuk>explain what happened.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=TigerThe Invisible|author=Suzi EszterhasTom Percival
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|summary=''Tiger'' This is a simply stunning picture book following the lives story of Isobel, a tiger family from birth to adulthoodlittle girl who made a big difference. Each page is filled Isobel lived with enchanting pictures of the tigers her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the wild, taken by award-winning photographer Suzi Eszterhas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805043</amazonuk>}}heating on:
{{newreview|title=Katie's Picture Show|author=James Mayhew|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Can there be a better way of bringing 'Ice curled across the world inside of art and the classic masterpieces alive for children than the charming Katie series? This particular story is the one that started it all twenty five years ago and this celebratory issue has been beautifully re-illustrated by [[:Category:James Mayhew|James Mayhew]] throughout window and is also in a slightly larger format too. As crept up the tiny figure corner 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 bedpost.''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|genre=For Sharing|summary=ItThe family didn's summer which means new school uniforms are in t go to the shops, new stationery is cinema or on every shelf, holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for those starting school for the first time, there's a wealth house and they had to move to the far side of Starting school books to ease the transitioncity. This is a fun new addition to part of the shelves that ticks all the boxes: colourfulcity was cold, inventive, sweet sad and lonely and, best of all, told in rhyme. I love rhymeIsobel felt invisible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440384</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Flying BathNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Julia Donaldson and David RobertsOne Night in Beartown|rating=4.5
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|summary=It’s long been accepted that when you go to school Many children have an obsession and your parents are at workSandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, your toys come alive and have adventures until you returnis obsessed with bears. EVERYBODY knows thatShe collects books about bears. But have you ever thought about the other things in your house and whether they have Her favourite toy is Berisford, a second life? Here’s a hint: they DOteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Welcome Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the Flying Bathbear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school.She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230742602</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}
{{newreview|title=Milly and the Mermaids|author=Maudie Smith and Antonia Woodward|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mermaids are a great way to stretch young imaginations. Imagine living in an underwater world, swimming with the fishes in a pleasant way (rather than in a Mafioso way). This is exactly the type of excitement that Milly longs for in ‘Milly and the Mermaids’ by Maudie Smith and Antonia Woodward. When her parents take her Move on a trip to the seaside, all she can think of is finding a Mermaid, but do they really exist?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006932</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)|author=Peter Brown|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=School can be a difficult place for children, especially if your teacher is a stomping, roaring monster like Miss Kirby. Bobby spends most of his time worrying about what to do about his monster of a teacher, and the best place for him to think about it is in the park. He goes there one day to contemplate the situation, but who does he meet? Miss Kirby! She isn't stomping or roaring though, she is feeding the ducks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447257472</amazonuk>}}[[Newest General Fiction Reviews]]