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[[Category:New Reviews|For Sharing]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=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 regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898766|title=JampiresThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Sarah McIntyre Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and David O'ConnellIndre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=3.54
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|summary=Jampires is a great book explaining why some When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of your doughnuts might not be as jammy as you’d perhaps likeFine Repute. This 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 really funny premise ladder of moss and vines was lowered for a children’s book and I really did enjoy reading itthem, on they escaped. They climbed up to the wholeTree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200123</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR|title=On the Beach: The Further Adventures of the Owl and the Pussy-catWinter Visitor|author=Julia Donaldson Chris Green and Charlotte VoakeJenny Fionda
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|summary=I Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was utterly intrigued by 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 idea shoreline. On top of the ice was a follow up to polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the wonderful Edward Lear poemsand, The Owl the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the Pussy-catice. I thought Kit was all for making a run for it might have the feel that some follow ups by different authors might have, but I Teal knew that the bear was very pleasantly surprisedhungry and gave him one apple and then another. If anybody was going He obviously needed to be able to write verse that could live up to taken home on the original, Julia Donaldson was, bus and given a good meal and she didsomewhere to sleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141332972</amazonuk> What else would you do?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Bears Don't Read!1913839656|author=Emma Chichester Clark|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summarytitle=I'm a sucker for bear stories. I find that I am very rarely disappointed by a book with a bear in it. Certainly, this particular bear book is charming, with lots of appeal for both bear-lovers and book-lovers too! George is no common bear, oh no. HeLet's the sort of bear who sits on a bench, thinking about the meaning of life. No longer wanting to do the usual bear sort of things, he feels that he needs more...but what can he do? One day he happens to stumble upon a book and, with it, the new ambition for his life. George needs to learn how to read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000742518X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Line Up, Please!Celebrate Being Different|author=Tomoko OhmuraLainey Dee|rating=43.5
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|summary=I Todd was intrigued by excited about spending the beginning of this bookweekend with his grandmother, which starts with a sign declaring that 'not least because she made the line starts here' and below that is a frog, labelled as being a from, and he also has a number 50 beneath himbest beetle juice. What is going on? Turning the page we see that there is a queue He packed two pairs of animals, dungarees and that each animal is named his favourite hat and numbered, with the numbers decreasing from 50 downwardsthen gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. From She had promised to take him to the start this is Friday Night Club at the perfect book for a child obsessed with all the different animal species you can name. There's everything in local community centre and Todd was pleased about this queue from moles and guinea pigs as he wanted to an armadillomake new friends. At home, a sloth his only friend was his mum and a wombat!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>187757998X</amazonuk>he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504775|title=Doughnuts for a DragonThe Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain Amy Sparkes and Lee WildishKatie Hickey
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|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'Doughnuts for a Dragon'' does pretty much what it says on the tin, d been born with George heading off on a mission to find a dragoncerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. In [[Marshmallows for Martians by Lee Wildish, Adam Guillain and Charlotte Guillain|Marshmallows for Martians]] he built himself One day Elsie spotted a spaceship bus in order the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to hunt pay for extraterrestrial lifeit as cash was tight at home. Gradually, but this time his plan requires a time machine - I meanDavid learned to stand up, how else are you going to find a Dragon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405270543</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sam and Dave Dig a Hole|author=Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sam and Dave are digging a holeuse the bus for support, and they’re sure they’re going to find something spectacularwalk behind it. But Many decades later, Elsie brought the more they digbus, now damaged and rusted, to the more they keep missing all the spectacular stuffRepair Shop, not hoping that they know the experts there could make it. This is an interesting book which requires a pretty good attention span to fully appreciate it. It has so that thing that is so often missing in picture books; her grandchildren could play with it is just that bit different, which I always appreciate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406357766</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=Pete the Cat and the New GuyThe Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Kimberly Dean Amy Sparkes and James DeanKatie Hickey
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|summary=[[Pete 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 the Cat home of Mr and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and James Dean|Pete began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the Cat baking and His Four Groovy Buttons]] was an instant and complete hit in my household when I reviewed it for The Bookbag a few months ago, came to Christmas Eve Susan and it has continued to be so ever since. So I was very excited to receive Pete’s latest adventure, Pete Mr Russell put the Cat and decorations on the New GuyChristmas tree. It is a lot longer than The best surprise happened the last book, but this is not a bad thing and only serves to back up my opinion that these books are suitable for a wide range of reading agesfollowing morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007590806</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916459943|title=A Scarf and a HalfSqueakily Baby|author=Amanda Brandon and Catalina EcheverriBeth Webb
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|summary=A Scarf and Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a Half follows the story of Little Lionel, whose Granny just loves squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to knit. When she knits him a scarf for his birthdaysleep: instead, he just can’t lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to help but be disappointed. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hush, after all it isn’t hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a nice bouncy ballsandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. But it isn’t just any old scarf The mermaids join in - ''la lou, Granny loves knitting so much that it’s la lay...'' And for a scarf and moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a half, seagull '''shouts''' and luckily for Lionel his friends are on hand we know exactly what's going to show him just how many different uses it could havehappen next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140639131X|title=Willy The WimpA Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Anthony BrowneBriony May Smith
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|summary=Willy 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 mild mannered chimpreply. He apologises even Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when it is not his fault, there was a problem which is most needed solving: she saw the benefits of the time. In lollipop lady at the mean streets of town, his timid manner, Fair Isle tank top school crossing and Oxford brogues mark him out as an easy target for the gorilla gangdecided that she would set up something similar herself. That is until the day he spots a mail order advertisement which guarantees Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a transformation from wimp little amateur to loud talking, sand kicking, muscle bulging manstart with but the benefits were obvious. Willy sends off All the animals used the coupon, some cash crossing and then waits…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356417</amazonuk>Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574338|title=MelissaLeilong's Octopus and other Unsuitable PetsToo Long!|author=Charlotte VoakeJulia Liu and Bei Lynn|rating=4.5
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|summary=Melissa has a pet octopusEvery morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. He’s splendid, but not exactly Children who live at the most suitable top of petstower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. But what other unsuitable pets do Melissa’s friends have It's perfect, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and which is – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the most unsuitable of all?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406353000</amazonuk>bus anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776574028|title=Belle and Boo and the Very Merry ChristmasBumblebee Grumblebee|author=Mandy SutcliffeDavid Elliott
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|summary=In I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the world of children’s literature 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 make something quite different from each one. We have to get your winter solstice books out early if you want to stand out in the crowdelephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''. Before you can release The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a Christmas book though, ''crynoceros'' (think about it would help if all the characters knew what Christmas was!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm....... Thankfully'' OK, Boo need let's not worry for too long as Belle is on hand to tell him exactly what to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408320916</amazonuk>go there Some people are eating!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Jolly SnowmenCarried Away With the Carnival|author=Ned TaylorEd Boxall|rating=4.5
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|summary=Snowmen are universally adoredIt was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. Everyone I know who picked up this book, young and old, went They''Ooohre there to undo all the good that parents do, snowmen!'' There’s something so cheerful about this precious, somewhat rare creature, and the likes of Frozen have cemented this in the minds of the latest generationtrips out were always so much fun. A book about two balls of icy snow doesn't sound muchyoung boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, but add a scarf, coal eyes and a carrot nose, and the transformation is astonishing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184857424X</amazonuk>}}who told him:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=ItOtter's an Orange Aadvark!|author=Michael Hall|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A group of ants decide to drill through their tree stump in order to give themselves a window to the outside world. The more they drill, the more colours they find, and the more whacky Cherolachian Tortoise and wild ideas they come up with for what they mind find outside the safety of their home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277045</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Yuck! Said the YakHare|author=Alex English and Emma LeveyCordellya Smith
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|summary=Yuck! Said When the Yak is a greatworld was made, fun book for young listenersthe animals were given gifts. Alfie is trying desperately to find something which his hungry Yak friend will want to eat, but Bear was given strength so that he doesn’t really think about what could become a protector. Water Spider received a Yak will want, and strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so all that he could see the Yak can say is present ''Yuck!and''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861141</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Twelve Days of Christmas|author=Britta Teckentrup|rating=4the future.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=You know the song already Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, but this peep-through book recreates the magic of not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that''Twelve Days of Christmas'' in s not a beautiful fair contest but wait and special waysee. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848958862</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SurpriseRob Keeley|authortitle=Jonathan Litton and Fhiona GallowayCarrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating=54
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|summary=Pass the Parcel 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 timeless classic keen to explain how good they are for any occasionyou and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, be it a birthday orLily checks with the teacher, as who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in this bookthe ground. Jordan says, Christmas time. But have you ever played it in a book before? No? Keep reading"I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848959079</amazonuk>B09HHN541V
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=Your Hand in My HandYou Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Mark Sperring Justine Avery and Britta TeckentrupKate Zhoidik
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|summary=When I was young my Mum always wanted me to come over for a lean or hold her hand if we were walking. I would be asked how much I loved her and I would reply, ''This MuchFor the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can'' whilst stretching out my arms as far as they would go. It seems that my Mum was quite t Wear Panties!" is a sentimental person, so this book would have been perfect for her to read to me before bedcry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408333163</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=Hooray for HatJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Brian WonEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
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|summary=Helping someone is Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a great way child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to make them feel good talk about and what better way to do this than providing a novelty hat? I can think of a few things myselfjoke about, but for Elephantthat is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, Zebrasay, Turtle 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 calmly, with the rest of their pals; hat-giving familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is the joy de jourperfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441763</amazonuk>B09C2RVJ2W}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=The Oxford Treasury of Nursery RhymesWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Sarah Williams Justine Avery and Karen KingSeema Amjad|rating=34.5
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|summary=When it comes to nursery rhymes, what you learn at your Mother’s knee as a baby is gospel. Recently I have expanded my repertoire courtesy of Cheshire libraries excellent rhyme time activities, but at heart I still can't quite come to terms with the librarian saying 'washed Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!''is the latest release in the spider'' out as opposed to my mum’s washed ''poor InceyEverybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain outof potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. Sadly, Williams’ and King’s compendium ''The Oxford Treasury of Nursery Rhymes'' doesn’t take my Mum’s side in this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738666</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=SnowWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Walter de la MarePeter Cotton
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|summary=This Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a classic poem which has been brought snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to life him. He arrived as a present in a lovely picture book which is perfect for box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the run up family, to Christmas and close afterthe extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. It captures perfectly And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense of joy around Christmas for young children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571305571</amazonuk> Or brakes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dinosaur Poo!Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|authortitle=Christyan Fox and Diane FoxEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=3.54
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|summary=There are two things that I find are always popular topics when Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it comes be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to young children; dinosaurslearn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and poo. This book takes that very much to the next level moon take turns in this rhyming book all about dinosaur poo. It does what it says on the tin.sky? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910277029</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|authorisbn=Zanib Mian and Laura Ewing Ferrer194812467X|title=Never too SmallThe Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic
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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, but he was lucky. He had a good friend Kirelle and that her best friend wrote him a letter Sam the cat decide to tell him that people are never too small, or too big, or too old to try something new. There was also go for a little girl and she was afraid of the darkwalk. It was her brother who wrote her a letter to tell her that he would always be there Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in herbright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. There was the boy who wouldn't try new things As they walk to eat, the young girl who was afraid top of heightsthe hill, they see a boy who was terrified about going to school and big barn with a girl who was frightened of spiderssign outside. They It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all had that special someone who took the time to write them the letter which gave them the confidence to overcome their fearsstallholders 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956419658</amazonuk>What will they buy?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Bing: Make MusicSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Ted DewanMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|summary=Sadie''Round the corners mother always said that she was a dreamer, Not far away…'' These are the words I hear in my living room most afternoons followed by 6 minutes and 30 seconds of silence from my boy. I could take advantage and get her mind never on with some urgent tasks but, truth what she should be told, I’m happy to snuggle up doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and drink in the rich artwork that is Bing Bunny brought she loves to life on CBeebiesspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Unusually, Bing on ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the box was born out of Bing houses cowered in the book. Alsogloom, unusually, my local library have no Bing books so ''Bing: Make Music<br>''To the Maritime Museum'' . Her imagination was my first experience of fired. She'd love to sail the Bingster oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (as he is known to his fansit's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) confined to paperand missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. There on When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the first pagemidst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, just like on CBeebiespirates, were the magic opening words followed by… ''Bing’s been bongo- ing all day''mermaids and treasure. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007515421</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Blake1782227741|title=The Five of UsLittle Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha Satha
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|summary=Five friends set off on an outingOne day, complete with yellow bus and sandwiches. There was Angie who could see Gold Ted falls into a sparrow from five miles away. Ollie could hear it sneeze. Simona and Mario were so strong that they could lift anything. They were all amazingpuddle. Then there was Eric, but Eric wasnIt't s quite certain if he excelled at anythinga deep puddle and the water is swirling. Big Eddie was driving the bus Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and after they had eaten their sandwiches Big Eddie suddenly took is sucked down a funny turndrain on the side of the street. Finding himself What were The Five down in the sewer, Ted starts to do? Well, they set off with Simona and Mario carrying Eddie (panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries andalerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, by goshwho plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, he which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is big) but suddenly they came to the banks of a big river - kind soul and this was when Eric discovered exactly why he is amazingdries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849763046</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Foxy and EggRemy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Alex T SmithMayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4.5
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|summary=Long-time lovers of thebookbagRemy is feeling miserable.coHe's let himself down ''again''.uk may find something familiar about the tale of Foxy DeBois who invites a young egg into her house for a mealThe 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. What They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can this sense of déjà vu be? More than likely you read see and then push him just that little bit further when the earlier review by our own Keith Dudhnath on [[Egg by Alex T Smith|Egg]]other kids are around. With the success of Foxy in the intervening yearsSo, the book has been renamed and re-releasedwhen Remy reacts, but does it remain looks as fun?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444920928</amazonuk>though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=You Can Do It, Bert!The Invisible|author=Ole KonneckeTom Percival|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's very rare that I get my hands on a Gecko Press picture book and find I don't like it. They seem to publish lots This is the story of unusualIsobel, entertaining books that become firm favourites on our bookshelves. This one is no exception. Bert is a plump little birdie, standing on girl who made a branch, facing his big daydifference. Can he? Will he? Should he jump?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271037</amazonuk>}}Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=This Book Just Ate My DogNick Jones and Si Clark|authortitle=Richard ByrneOne Night in Beartown|rating=54
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|summary=Bella decides to take Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her dog for a walk across the page grandmother. Every night, she looks out of this very naughty book, when what does the book do? It eats her dog! The cheek! Various people bedroom window and vehicles go in after it, but none of them come back out again! There's nothing for it, Bella will just have says goodnight to sort it out herself.the bear 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>0192737287</amazonuk>B08NFH7H9X}}