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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=TinFrontpage|author=Chris JudgeAdam Stower|rating=5|genretitle=For Sharing|summary=When Tin agrees to look after Nickel for the afternoon, you can tell he really just wants her to play peacefully while he reads his comic. But little sisters have a habit of not doing what you want, Murray and before he knows it, Tin is up off his sun lounger and racing after Nickel to keep her from danger. As he and Zinc the dog chase after her, they find themselves in an adventure of their own in the big city.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440406</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=It's an Orange Aadvark!|author=Michael HallBun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=A group of ants decide Murray is supposed to drill through their tree stump in order to give themselves be a window 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 outside worldtwo. The more they drill But he's a bad magician's cat, the more colours they findso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the more whacky and wild ideas catflap they come up with for what they mind find outside both use can chuck them out, not into the safety regular back garden, but into a world of their homefrightening 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910277045</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=Yuck! Said the YakThe 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 Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a greatladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, fun book for young listenersthey escaped. Alfie is trying desperately They climbed up to find something which his hungry Yak friend will want to eat, but he doesn’t really think about what a Yak will wantthe Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and so all the Yak can say is ''Yuck!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861141</amazonuk>Granny Cranny.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Twelve Days of ChristmasB0CC9W7GLR|author=Britta Teckentrup|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summarytitle=You know On the song already, but this peep-through book recreates the magic of the ''Twelve Days of Christmas'' in a beautiful and special way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848958862</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=SurpriseBeach: 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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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Winnie's Big Bad RobotBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky PaulDavid Elliott|rating=4.5
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|summary=Winnie I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the Witch is something of an institution in children’s literature these dayschild 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 with good reasonmake something quite different from each one. From We have the very first book in the series Valerie Thomas elephant who dons a tutu - and Korky Paul managed to capture becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a wonderful sense of fun, mischief bath (complete with yellow duck) and adventurethen dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. This addition to the series The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is no exceptiona ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738720</amazonuk>......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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|author=Ed Boxall
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|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=On Sudden HillOtter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Linda Sarah and Benji Davies (Illustrator)Cordellya Smith|rating=54
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|summary=Birt and Etho are best friendsWhen the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. They spend hours together playing on Sudden Hill Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Usually they play with large cardboard boxes imagining Owl had excellent sight so that they are pirates, or soldiers or maybe kings but always they are he could see the present ''and'' the best of friendsfuture. Then one day another little boy Rabbit developed intelligence - but, Shuunfortunately, brings his box not the ability to Sudden Hill and asks if he can play toouse it well. The three boys sit in their boxes together and imagine that they are dragon slayers or skyscraper dancers but Birt feels strange He liked to trick other animals. He misses the two-by-two rhythm was also jealous which was how he had shared came to be in a race with EthoTurtle. Can the boys make You might think that's not a friendship of two become three?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119289</amazonuk>fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zanib Mian and Laura Ewing FerrerRob Keeley|title=Never too SmallCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=4
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|summary=There was once a young boy who didn't try to do things because he felt that he was too small Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, but he was luckycabbage and aubergines. He had a When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good friend they are for you and that friend wrote him a letter how nice to tell him that people are never too smalleat. One day, or too bigpoor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, or too old to try something new. There was also a little girl and she was afraid of the dark. It was her brother who wrote her a letter to tell tells her that he would always be there for hercarrots grow on trees. There was Infuriated, Lily checks with the boy teacher, who wouldn't try new things to eatexplains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the young girl who was afraid of heightsground. Jordan says, a boy who was terrified about going "I did try to school tell her, Miss!" and a girl 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 fearseveryone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956419658</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=Bing: Make MusicYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Ted DewanJustine Avery and Kate Zhoidik
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|summary=''Round For the cornerbig, grownup girls out there, Not far away…'' These are the words I hear potty masters in my living room most afternoons followed by 6 minutes and 30 seconds of silence from my boy. I could take advantage and get on with some urgent tasks buttraining, truth be told, I’m happy to snuggle up and drink in the rich artwork that "You Can't Wear Panties!" is Bing Bunny brought to life on CBeebies. Unusually, Bing on a cry (the box was born out big-girl kind!) of Bing the booktoilet triumph and persevering panty pride. Also, unusually, my local library have no Bing books so ''Bing: Make Music'' was my first experience of the Bingster (as he is known to his fans) confined to paper. There on the first page, just like on CBeebies, were the magic opening words followed by… ''Bing’s been bongo- ing all day''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007515421</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|author=Quentin BlakeJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Five of UsEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Five friends set off on an outingToots, complete with yellow bus and sandwichestrumps, farts. There was Angie who could see Whatever your word for them, find us a sparrow from five miles awaychild that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Ollie could hear it sneeze. Simona Funny to talk about and Mario were so strong joke about, that they could lift anything. They were all amazingis. Then there was Eric, but Eric wasn't quite certain But horribly embarrassing if he excelled you let one go at anythingthe wrong time. Big Eddie was driving the bus In class, say, when everyone will hear it and after they had eaten their sandwiches Big Eddie suddenly took a funny turneveryone will laugh. At you. What were The Five to do? Well, they set off Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with Simona tooting and Mario carrying Eddie (gently andcalmly, by goshwith the familiar humour attached, he explains that tooting is big) but suddenly they came to the banks of a big river - and this was when Eric discovered exactly why he is amazingperfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849763046</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Foxy and EggWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Alex T SmithJustine Avery and Seema Amjad
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|summary=Long-time lovers of thebookbag.co.uk may find something familiar about ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the tale of Foxy DeBois who invites a young egg into her house for a meal''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. What can this sense This series of déjà vu be? More than likely you read the earlier review by our own Keith Dudhnath on [[Egg by Alex T Smith|Egg]]. With fun picture books aims to take the success pain out of Foxy in the intervening years, the book has been renamed potty training children and re-releasedreplace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, but does it remain as fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444920928</amazonuk>any frustrated parent will tell you. .
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=You Can Do It, Bert!When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Ole KonneckePeter Cotton
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|summary=ItMeet Fred. Well, actually, you's re going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very rare that quickly. But I get my hands on a Gecko Press picture book and find 'm getting ahead of myself: I don't like itd better tell you a bit more about Fred. They seem Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to publish lots warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of unusualthe family, entertaining books to the extent that become firm favourites on our bookshelvesthey would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. This one is no exceptionAnd that was where the problem started. Bert is a plump little birdie, standing on a branch, facing his big dayFred didn't have any road sense. Can he? Will he? Should he jump?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271037</amazonuk>Or brakes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Betty Goes BananasJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Steve AntonyEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=This is a simpleCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, repetitive book with a circular tale: Betty wants somethingas any parent will tell you. But really, she doesn’t get why shouldn't it and so she cries and kicks and screams until someone helps her. If that makes you think that tantrums are being rewarded, in a way you’d be right, but Mr Toucan, her repeated saviour, is keen ? We all have to show her how learn about our bodily functions just as we have to do things rather than just do them for herlearn about everything else when we are small. Teach a man to fish and he’ll never go hungryWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, teach a chimp to peel a banana learning about why the sun and she’ll be happy, for a while at least.the moon take turns in the sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192738151</amazonuk>B098BJZYHH
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|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=194812467X|title=You Are (Not) SmallThe Farm Shop|author=Anna Kang Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Christopher WeyantEma Tepic
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|summary=Meet little purple critterKirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. He Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is smallperfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. Big orange critter tells him so. And indeedAs they walk to the top of the hill, he is smaller than they see a big orange critter, just barn with a fraction of his sizesign outside. It's a farm shop! But waitthis is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. What if he’s not smallThere are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, but big orange critter is the weirdo? What is he’s big? Did you ever think of thatand even some mice. Excited, Mr big orange critter?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918303</amazonuk>}}Kirelle and Sam go shopping.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Digby Dog Delivers: A Search Sadie and Find Bookthe Sea Dogs|author=Tor FreemanMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Digby Dog is off Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on his rounds, delivering what she should be doing. She lives by the postRiver Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. But he might need some help finding the people his parcels are for, can you help him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230770886</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Smelly LouieLittle Gold Ted|author=Catherine RaynerVanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha|rating=54
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|summary=Louie 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 smelly dogdrain on the side of the street. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, until who plucks him out of the dirty water using his owner gives him cane, which might look just a bathbit like an old cricket bat. Suddenly everything Reg is wrong a kind soul and he dries Ted off and Louie doesn't smell like himself any morewarms him up with a nice bowl of broth. Will he be able to find his own smell again? Let's hope so!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230742505</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=The Scarecrows' Wedding|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingFrontpage|summaryisbn=Betty O'Barley and Harry O'Hay are going to get married, in fact they're going to have the best wedding yet, the wedding that no one will ever forget. So they make a wedding list and set off around the farm to find the things they need. Harry goes off on his own to find pink flowers, but the question is will he be back in time for the wedding?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407144413</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewB08R7LXQ9S|title=Bear and BeeRemy: Too BusyA book about believing in yourself|author=Sergio RuzzierMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=3.54
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|summary=Bear Remy is trying to do lots of fun thingsfeeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, but they'd all be much more fun if only together with his friendsidekicks Ryan and Brandon, Beehave been laughing at Remy, would join incalling him names because he is short and has small eyes. BeeThey are mean but they are not stupid. They 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. So, howeverwhen Remy reacts, has other ideas it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and is just too busy the teachers don't believe him when he tries to roll down hills or climb up treesexplain what happened. When Bee is finished and wants to play with Bear, Bear is trying to sleep!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423159616</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=Ten Little PrincessesThe Invisible|author=Mike Brownlow and Simon RickertyTom Percival
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|summary=Ten little princesses are going to a ball, but not all of them may get there. There are lots of distractions between This is the castle and the dance floor. Some story of them are less than pleasantIsobel, like the scary monsters or the poison apple, not to mention the huffing, puffing a little girl who made a big bad wolf (can see difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a familiar theme emerging?) Others are much more enticinghouse - a very cold house, like a frog just begging because her parents couldn't afford to be kissed or a charming prince (put the heating on a skateboard, no less).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408330105</amazonuk>}}:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Heart HolidaysNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Clara VulliamyOne Night in Beartown
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|summary=Martha Many children have an obsession and her bunny brothers are going on holiday to the seaside and it's charmingSandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. They’re in a vintage camper vanHer favourite toy is Berisford, and while a traffic jam holds them up a bitteddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, they're soon on the beach she looks out of her bedroom window and ready says goodnight to swim. Well, Martha is. But the boys don't want to so instead they have sandcastle building competitions, and a picnic and a paddle and some ice creamsbear statue outside. Every time Martha mentions the seamorning she says hello to Bee Bear, a new plan emergescolourful painted bear that lives at her school. Will anyone ever go in the water with She even has bears on her?bedroom wallpaper!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000741921X</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}