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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Yuck! Said Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the Yakregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Alex English Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Emma LeveyIndre Ta (Illustrator)
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|summary=Yuck! Said When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Yak is a great, fun book for young listenersForest of Fine Repute. Alfie is trying desperately to find something which his hungry Yak friend will want to eat, but he doesn’t really think Their greatest fear has come about what a Yak will want, and so all : the Yak can say Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don'Yuck!'t try this at home: it won'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861141</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Twelve Days of Christmas|author=Britta Teckentrup|rating=4t end well.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=You know the song already) Fortunately, but this peepthey were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly -through book recreates the magic and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the ''Twelve Days of Christmas'' Tree Wee homes high up in a beautiful the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and special wayGranny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848958862</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=SurpriseOn the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Jonathan Litton Chris Green and Fhiona GallowayJenny Fionda
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|summary=Pass 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 shoreline. On top of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the Parcel is ice. Kit was all for making a timeless classic run for any occasionit, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be it taken home on the bus and given a birthday or, as in this book, Christmas timegood meal and somewhere to sleep. But have What else would you ever played it in a book beforedo? No? Keep reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913839656|title=Your Hand in My HandLet's Celebrate Being Different|author=Mark Sperring and Britta TeckentrupLainey Dee
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|summary=When I Todd was young my Mum always excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted me to come over for a lean or hold her hand if we were walkingmake new friends. I would At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be asked how much I loved her and I would reply, ''This Much'' whilst stretching out my arms as far as they would go. It seems Grandma thought that my Mum was quite a sentimental person, so this book would have been perfect for her to read to me before bedit might be because he looked different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408333163</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Baker CatThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Posy SimmondsAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Poor cat! All day long he works for the mean baker Elsie and his equally unpleasant wife in her little brother David loved to go to the bakery, mixing, baking, chopping, slicing park and sweeping while watch the baker grumblesred buses drive past. Then at night Elsie would race the exhausted cat, without any supper, is expected to catch buses along the mice that run riot in side of the storeroompark but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. Unfortunately he is not One day Elsie spotted a particularly successful mouse catcherbus 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 home. Eventually the poor cat Gradually, denied even a name by his miserable ownersDavid learned to stand up, becomes thinuse the bus for support, sad and weepy and slumps in despairwalk behind it. It is then that Many decades later, Elsie brought the mice take pity on him bus, now damaged and concoct a clever plan rusted, to help himthe Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441054</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Hooray for HatThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Brian WonAmy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=45
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|summary=Helping someone is a great way to make them feel good Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and what better way nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to do this than providing a novelty hat? her final destination. I can think She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of a few things myselfMr and Mrs Russell, but for Elephant, Zebra, Turtle who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the rest of their pals; hat-giving is decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the joy de jourfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783441763</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=The Oxford Treasury of Nursery RhymesSqueakily Baby|author=Sarah Williams and Karen KingBeth Webb|rating=3.54
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|summary=When it comes to nursery rhymesMuch as mothers love their babies, what you learn at your Mother’s knee as there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby is gospel. Recently I have expanded my repertoire courtesy of Cheshire libraries excellent rhyme time activities, He's so tired but at heart I still he can't quite come - or won't - go to terms with the librarian saying sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''washed wails''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the spiderwaves sing '' out as opposed to my mum’s washed hush, hush''poor Incey. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la lay...' out' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Sadly, Williams’ and King’s compendium Then a seagull '''shouts''The Oxford Treasury of Nursery Rhymes'and we know exactly what' doesn’t take my Mum’s side in thiss going to happen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738666</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=SnowA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Walter de la MareBriony May Smith
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|summary=This is 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 classic poem which has been brought reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to life in sit back on her tail feathers when there was a lovely picture book problem which is perfect for needed solving: she saw the benefits of the run lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to Christmas and close afterstart with but the benefits were obvious. It captures perfectly All the animals used the sense of joy around Christmas for young childrencrossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571305571</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=Dinosaur PooLeilong's Too Long!|author=Christyan Fox Julia Liu and Diane FoxBei Lynn|rating=3.54
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|summary=There are two things that I find are always popular topics when Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes 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 slide down his neck. It's perfect, isn't it comes ? What could be a more fun way of going to young children; dinosaursschool? There is a problem, and poothough. This book takes that very much Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to the next level in this rhyming book all be careful about dinosaur poowhere he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. It does what it says on The school decides that he can't be the tinbus anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277029</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=Winnie's Big Bad Robot|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingFrontpage|summaryisbn=Winnie the Witch is something of an institution in children’s literature these days, and with good reason. From the very first book in the series Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul managed to capture a wonderful sense of fun, mischief and adventure. This addition to the series is no exception.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738720</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1776574028|title=On Sudden HillBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Linda Sarah and Benji Davies (Illustrator)David Elliott|rating=54
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|summary=Birt and Etho are best friends. They spend hours together playing on Sudden Hill. Usually they play with large cardboard boxes imagining that they are piratesI 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, or soldiers or maybe kings see my first sentence) but always they are the best of friends. Then one day another little boy, Shu, brings his box has mastered sufficient language skills to Sudden Hill and asks if he have realise that you can ''play too. The three boys sit in their boxes together '' with words and imagine that they are dragon slayers or skyscraper dancers but Birt feels strangemake something quite different from each one. He misses We have the twoelephant who dons a tutu -by-two rhythm he and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had shared a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with Ethoa hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. Can the boys make The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a friendship of two become three?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119289</amazonuk>''sm.......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zanib Mian and Laura Ewing Ferrer1838226834|title=Never too SmallCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=There It was once a young boy who didnone of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They't try re there to do things because he felt that he was too small, but he was lucky. He had a undo all the good friend and that friend wrote him a letter to tell him that people are never too smallparents do, or too big, or too old to try something new. There was also a little girl and she was afraid of so the dark. It was her brother who wrote her a letter to tell her that he would trips out were always be there for herso much fun. There was the boy who wouldn't try new things to eat, the A young girl who was afraid of heights, a boy who was terrified about going to school and a girl the carnival with his Grandad, who was frightened of spiders. They all had that special someone who took the time to write them the letter which gave them the confidence to overcome their fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956419658</amazonuk>}}told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin BlakeB09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Five of UsReal Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith
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|summary=Five friends set off on an outingWhen the world was made, complete with yellow bus and sandwichesthe animals were given gifts. There Bear was Angie who given strength so that he could see become a sparrow from five miles awayprotector. Ollie Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could hear it sneezenot burn. Simona and Mario were Owl had excellent sight so strong that they he could lift anythingsee the present ''and'' the future. They were all amazing. Then there was EricRabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, but Eric wasn't quite certain if he excelled at anything. Big Eddie was driving not the bus and after they had eaten their sandwiches Big Eddie suddenly took a funny turnability to use it well. What were The Five He liked to do? trick other animals. Well, they set off with Simona and Mario carrying Eddie (and, by gosh, He was also jealous which was how he is big) but suddenly they came to the banks of be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a big river - fair contest but wait and this was when Eric discovered exactly why he is amazingsee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849763046</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Foxy and EggRob Keeley|authortitle=Alex T SmithCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4.5
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|summary=Long-time lovers of thebookbag Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables.coShe likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines.uk may find something familiar about the tale of Foxy DeBois who invites a young egg into When her house friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for a mealyou and how nice to eat. What can this sense of déjà vu be? More than likely you read the earlier review One day, poor Lily gets tricked by our own Keith Dudhnath Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on [[Egg by Alex T Smith|Egg]]trees. With Infuriated, Lily checks with the success of Foxy teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the intervening yearsground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, the book has been renamed Miss!" and re-released, but does it remain as fun?everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444920928</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.''
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=Betty Goes BananasJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Steve AntonyEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=This is a simpleToots, repetitive book with a circular tale: Betty wants somethingtrumps, she doesn’t get it and so she cries and kicks and screams until someone helps herfarts. If that makes you think that tantrums are being rewardedWhatever your word for them, in find us a way you’d be right, but Mr Toucan, her repeated saviour, is keen to show her how to do things rather than just do child that doesn't find them for herirresistibly funny. Teach a man Funny to fish talk about and he’ll never joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go hungryat the wrong time. In class, say, teach a chimp to peel a banana when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and she’ll be happycalmly, with the familiar humour attached, for a while at leastexplains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192738151</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=The New Small PersonWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Lauren ChildJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Elmore Green ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is an only child, the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and very happy about replace it he is toowith some fun. It's a worthy aim, thank as any frustrated parent will tell you very much. And then a small person arrives in his house and everything is just wrong. What is he supposed to do?! The small person gets bigger, and Elmore just isn’t sure how he is supposed to deal with it .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723293619</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=This Book Just Ate My DogWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Richard ByrnePeter Cotton|rating=4.5
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|summary=Bella decides Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to take her dog 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 walk across bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the page of this very naughty bookfamily, when what does to the book do? It eats her dog! The cheek! Various people and vehicles go in after it, but none of extent that they would take Fred out with them come back when they went out again! Therefor a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn's nothing for it, Bella will just t have to sort it out herself.any road sense. Or brakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192737287</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Where Bear?Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Sophy HennEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54
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|summary=Where BearCan potty training ever be joyous? is a delightful picture book that is sure to charmIt often isn't, as any parent will tell you. A bear and a boy live happily together but both baby bears and baby boys grow upBut really, and over time the bear grows too big for the human-sized housewhy shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Sad to lose his friendWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, but determined to find a nice new home for himsay, learning about why the boy offers up suggestion after suggestion. Some bears live sun and the moon take turns in zoos, or forests or perform in a circus. What about one of those places? With each ''No'' from the bear comes a defeated response from our boy ''Then where bearsky?''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0723288917</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=You Are (Not) SmallJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Anna Kang and Christopher WeyantNo, No, No!
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|summary=Meet little purple critter. He is small. Big orange critter tells him soThey say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And indeed, he is smaller than big orange critternothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, just a fraction of his sizeBookbag favourite. 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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=Smelly LouieThe Farm Shop|author=Catherine RaynerDevon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=54
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|summary=Louie is a smelly dog, until his owner gives him Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a bathwalk. Suddenly everything Kirelle is wrong dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Louie doesn't smell like himself any moreSam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. Will he be able As they walk to find his own smell again? Letthe top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's hope soa farm shop!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230742505</amazonuk>}}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 chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Bear Sadie and Bee: Too Busythe Sea Dogs|author=Sergio RuzzierMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=Bear is trying to do lots of fun thingsSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, but they'd all her mind never on what she should be much more fun if only his friend, Bee, would join indoing. Bee, however, has other ideas She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and is just too busy she loves to roll down hills spend hours at The Maritime Museum or climb up treesgazing at Cutty Sark. When Bee is finished and wants to play with Bear, Bear is trying to sleep!|amazonuk=''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<amazonukbr>1423159616''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''</amazonukbr>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Ten Little PrincessesGold Ted|author=Mike Brownlow Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Simon RickertySasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=Ten little princesses are going 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 ball, but not all drain on the side of them may get therethe street. There are lots of distractions between Finding himself down in the castle sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the dance floor. Some attention of them are less than pleasant, like Reg the scary monsters or the poison applesewer rat, not to mention who plucks him out of the huffingdirty water using his cane, puffing big bad wolf (can see which might look just a familiar theme emerging?) Others are much more enticing, bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a frog just begging to be kissed or kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a charming prince (on a skateboard, no less)nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408330105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=WolfmanRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Michael Rosen Mayuri Naidoo and Chris MouldCaroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=People are panickingRemy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The police 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 afraidmean but they are not stupid. The army have run awayThey are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. Who or what could possibly be so scary? It’s Wolf ManSo, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And he’s on then he gets into trouble at school and the looseteachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Lord of the ForestThe Invisible|author=Caroline Pitcher and Jackie MorrisTom Percival
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|summary=Everything in the forest This is exciting and new for little tiger as he explores the world around him. His mother has told him story of The Lord of the Forest and so he watchesIsobel, listens and waits in the hope of discovering a little girl who this mysterious animal may bemade a big difference. As time passes he grows puzzled and starts Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to ask put the other animals such as the Rhino, the Elephant and heating on: ''Ice curled across the Peacock who The Lord inside of the Forest is window and each in turn claims that it is he. 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 that he finally discovers crept up the identity corner of the beast he has been searching forbedpost.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805469</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Danloria: The Secret Forest of Germania Nick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Gloria D GonsalvesOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Stan loves to go for walks in the forest of DanloriaMany children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, located who lives in the seven hills of Germania. He goes with his father almost every day. One particular dayBeartown, Stan's father is ill in bed and can't take him outobsessed with bears. And that's when Fern appearsShe collects books about bears. Stan notices the plant waving to him and can't help but investigate. Fern has an invitation for Stan. He wants to take him to the secret parts of the forestHer favourite toy is Berisford, to a partyteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Stan has a fabulous timeEvery night, meeting all the plants she looks out of her bedroom window and finding out about says goodnight to the various ways in which they benefit humanitybear statue outside. The following springEvery morning she says hello to Bee Bear, 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 ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1491876964</amazonuk>}} {{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 bookcolourful painted bear that lives at her school. He She even 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 bears 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 just wants to spend all his time looking at all the many, many different kinds of vehicles there are throughout the bookher bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000754636X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}